Bring Families and Staff Together to Improve Attendance

Help your school explain why daily attendance matters and help families and students overcome barriers that can lead to chronic absence.

This 100+ page Kit serves elementary and secondary levels and provides practical strategies, campaign ideas and family resources that your school can use throughout the year.

Build an Attendance Campaign Faster

Use three professionally narrated presentations for elementary families, secondary families and staff. Each presentation includes a Leader's Guide, script and handouts.

Program profiles show how other schools use home visits, student involvement, community partnerships and media campaigns. A best-practices checklist, campaign calendar, surveys, posters, media releases, newsletter articles and family handouts help staff plan and promote the work.

The profiles also include ideas for dropout prevention and truancy reduction. Schools can select one approach or combine several ideas for a local campaign.

Keep Attendance Visible All Year

The Kit also includes 100 copies of Attendance: A Key to Your Student's Success stuffer cards and 50 copies of Questions Families Ask About Attendance 16-page booklets. Give these resources to families as reminders and follow-up support.

What's Included

The Kit includes:

• Three ready-to-use, professionally narrated presentations, each with a Leader's Guide, script and handouts
• PowerPoint presentations and scripts for you to customize and narrate
• Planning tools and reproducible family handouts
• Program profiles of successful attendance plans on top topics such as:
  • Making dropout prevention a community priority
  • Using home visits to keep students on track and in school
  • Using student involvement to boost attendance
  • Initiating a community attendance campaign
  • Implementing a media campaign to reduce truancy
• A best-practices checklist, campaign calendar, sample media releases, newsletter articles, surveys, posters and other campaign materials

All above components are accessible via an online portal and also come printed and delivered in an organized storage binder for easy reference year after year.

Plus you receive supplemental printed brochures to distribute to your parents and students:

• 100 copies of Attendance: A Key to Your Student's Success stuffer cards
• 50 copies of Questions Families Ask About Attendance 16-page booklets

Materials are available in English and with a Spanish supplement.

Resource Kit Pricing

For quantities not listed, please email customer service at customer@parent-institute.com.