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Attendance & Truancy A mong Virginia Students

Attendance & Truancy A mong Virginia Students. Module 12: Engaging Community Partners. This PowerPoint serves as No. 12 in a series of modules designed to equip Virginia school divisions to reduce truancy and absenteeism.

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Attendance & Truancy A mong Virginia Students

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  1. Attendance & Truancy Among Virginia Students Module 12: Engaging Community Partners

  2. This PowerPoint serves as No. 12 in a series of modules designed to equip Virginia school divisions to reduce truancy and absenteeism. This module discusses how schools can partner with community organizations to reduce absenteeism. It also addresses how partners can share student data. The Purpose

  3. Today’s Agenda Learning goals review Finding the right partners Sharing student data

  4. Learning Goals • Educators will assess the need for additional partners to reduce absenteeism. • Educators will identify potential partners. • Educators will learn how they can legally share student data with partners.

  5. Warm Up Brainstorm: What are the qualities of a good partnership?

  6. Who Are Our Partners?

  7. Potential Partners

  8. Connecting to Existing Coalitions • Rather than start from scratch see if existing partnerships are focusing on chronic absence or want to: • Cradle to Career Alliances • Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Network • Grad Nation Coalitions • United Way Initiatives

  9. Creating a Community Partnership • Your school or division can also launch your own partnerships: • Make the case to community organizations that chronic absence connects to their goals. • Bring partners together for a “house party” or organizational meeting. • Set realistic goals and roles.

  10. Enlisting Partners • Think about: • How do your potential partner’s mission and goals align with yours? • What resources do you want them to contribute to help you reduce chronic absence? • What arguments will you use to make the case?

  11. Making the Case Give each partner specific information on why attendance matters to them.

  12. Organizing the Partnership • Host a meeting to introduce partners and make key decisions: • Who will lead this work? Who will help? • What resources are available to leverage? • What is the time frame for action? Be specific. Who will commit to doing what? By what date?

  13. Data Sharing • Your partnership will be stronger if you share attendance data. You can share: • Aggregate chronic absence data. • Disaggregated data if sub-groups are larger than 10 students. • Individual student data if you have consent.

  14. Learn More • Count Us In Toolkit http://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/toolkit/ • Confidentiality forms for sharing data: http://www.attendanceworks.org/confidentiality-forms-for-volunteers/ • Making the Case handouts: http://www.attendanceworks.org/tools/for-public-messaging/making-case/

  15. Virginia Absenteeism & Truancy Professional Development Series

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