Communicate Consistently & Effectively With Families 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.

Prioritize Attendance From Day One to Boost Academic Outcomes

Use this Kit and you will:

• Save hours of staff time instead of creating an attendance campaign from scratch
• Give staff the blueprint for planning, promoting and hosting effective family meetings and events
• Hold attendance presentations that get buy-in from elementary families, secondary families and staff
• Learn from other schools' successful programs—select one approach to adapt for your needs or combine several proven ideas
• Create a school culture that values being on time, present and ready to learn every day

What's Included

Launch your attendance campaign immediately with these ready-to-use resources:

• Three professionally narrated video presentations, each with a Leader's Guide, script and handouts
• PowerPoint presentations and scripts for you to customize and narrate
• Planning tools and best practices to make implementation easy
• Program profiles of successful attendance plans on top topics, including:
  • Making dropout prevention a community priority
  • Using home visits to keep students on track and in school
  • Using student involvement to boost attendance
    
  • Implementing a media campaign to reduce truancy
• Posters, sample media releases and other campaign materials to reach a wide array of families and encourage participation
• Newsletter articles, surveys and other reproducible family handouts to deliver a consistent message about attendance

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.

Focus Families on Attendance All Year

The Kit also includes supplemental printed brochures to distribute to your families as ongoing reinforcement:

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

Kits 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.