Monitoring Chronic Absence: We Need Your Help Now!

Attendance Works seeks the help of attendance supervisors in completing a brief but important five minute survey on the use of student data to identify and monitor whether students or even schools are at risk due to poor attendance.

Recent legislation has defined the term "chronic absentee" and promoted the use of early warning systems to identify high-risk students; however, the capacity of districts to use student data to identify and monitor whether they have a significant level of chronic absence remains unknown.

By completing this survey, you will help Attendance Works and the State SARB offer professional development and resources that will help educators throughout California implement a more comprehensive program for increasing school attendance and reducing dropouts. Implementing a comprehensive school attendance improvement and dropout reduction program has never been more challenging than it is now. We need your help in understanding what we can do to help schools and communities work together to ensure students go to school every day so they can learn and thrive.

Go to: Attendance Works Chronic Absence Survey to send in the responses for your district now!.



As an added incentive to participate, Attendance Works will enter the name of everyone who responds to the survey by October 12th into a raffle to receive a free flight on Southwest Airlines. The award winner will be selected at the October 18th state SARB meeting!!!

Please encourage your colleagues to complete the survey in the link so that we can be better informed about what attendance programs are currently implementing. Also, please note the incentive that Hedy is offering!

For more information:
David Kopperud
Education Programs Consultant
Counseling, Student Support, and Service-Learning Office
Learning Support and Partnerships Division
California Department of Education
1430 N Street, Suite 6408
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-323-1028