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This dialogue guide, created by the Illinois MTSS Network, is a professional learning tool to support best practices in attendance. Its purpose is to guide conversations around increasing student attendance to improve equity in student outcomes. The document includes background, best practices, guiding questions for your team, and additional resources.

Smart Solutions to reducing Chronic Absenteeism. In Attendance Playbook: Smart Solutions for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism, it addresses absenteeism at the ground level, providing local policymakers and educators with nearly two dozen practical strategies for improving attendance that have strong track records and are in many instances easy to introduce and simple to scale. Each intervention […]

Attendance works build public awareness and political will about the need to address chronic absence. They foster state campaigns and partnerships by developing coalitions to advance state and local policies that promote tracking attendance for individual students and reporting on chronic absence to ensure schools, especially if they are low-performing, will intervene to improve student […]