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A Reason to Show Up:
What early literacy intervention reveals about chronic absenteeism


The nudge letters and campaigns moved the easy days. The students still missing school need a reason to walk in the door. 

Watch this panel about a lever we know can boost attendance: when a child learns to read on time, school stops being the place they feel behind and becomes a place they want to be.

 

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Attendance is rarely just an attendance problem.

  • Why students kept 85% session attendance across a full 36-week year in the Johns Hopkins evaluation, and what it means that a reading intervention turned out to give kids a reason to show up

  • How one district cut chronic absenteeism at a single school from 26% to 13% in one year, and why the leader who did it says it wasn't a one-off

  • What two district leaders have been observing in real time, including the moment an assistant superintendent heard a student explain why missing school was no longer an option

  • How the decisions you make in elementary intervention show up years later in high school attendance and graduation data

  • A clear way to measure the attendance effect in your own early literacy programs, so you can test this in your district instead of taking it on faith

 

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Meet the people leading the conversation

Jose Escribano
Jose Escribano
Assistant Superintendent and Chief of Family and Community Engagement, Springfield Public Schools
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Hedy Chang
CEO and President, Attendance Works
Michelle Graham-1
Michelle Graham
Director of Teaching, Learning and Intervention, San Bruno Park School
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Kids are like, I need to be in school. I can't miss school because I need to meet with my tutor.
— Jose Escribano, Assistant Superintendent and Chief of Family and Community Engagement for Springfield Public Schools