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Attendance & Truancy A mong Virginia Students

This PowerPoint module addresses barriers to attendance in Virginia schools, focusing on health and transportation challenges. Educators will learn to identify and address these barriers to reduce absenteeism.

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Attendance & Truancy A mong Virginia Students

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  1. Module 10: Identifying Barriers Attendance & Truancy Among Virginia Students

  2. This PowerPoint serves as No. 10 in a series of modules designed to equip Virginia school divisions to reduce truancy and absenteeism. This module identifies possible barriers to good attendance including the health and transportation barriers. The Purpose

  3. Today’s Agenda Learning goals review What are common barriers to good attendance? Methods for identifying attendance barriers facing your students and families

  4. Learning Goals Educators will learn what the most common barriers are to good attendance. Educators will learnseveral methods for identifying attendance barriers facing students and families in their schools and communities.

  5. Warm Up Make a Top 10 list of the reasons why students in your school or division were absent last year.

  6. Find Out Why Students Are Chronically Absent Chronic disease

  7. Leading Health-Related Causes Asthma Oral Health Nearly one in ten children age 4-14 are diagnosed with asthma, accounting for one-third of all days of missed instruction. Children miss nearly two million school days due to oral health issues every year.

  8. Leading Health-Related Causes Bullying Oral Health Asthma Nutrition Vision Mental Health

  9. Transportation as a Barrier

  10. Often Cited Transportation Barriers • Missed the bus and school is a long distance away • The walking pathway is dangerous • Parent/Guardian too ill to walk a child to school • The public transportation is too expensive or unsafe • Public transportation staff treat students inappropriately

  11. Identifying Specific Barriers in Your School or Division Methods: • Examine chronic absence data • Obtain information from public data sources • Contact families when students are absent • Focus groups with families • Surveys

  12. Identifying Barriers for a Specific Student Fill out the Hypothesis Development Worksheet for Attendance: • Extent of Absenteeism? • Possible factors? (Academic, Safety, Transportation, Social, Home, Health/Mental Health, School Climate) • Attempted Interventions?

  13. Action Steps What method will you use to identify the barriers to good attendance in your school or division?

  14. Learn More • Read Leading Health Conditions Impacting Student Attendance, http://www.attendanceworks.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/School-Health-and-Attendance-Chart.pdf

  15. Virginia Absenteeism & Truancy Professional Development Series

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