Teacher's Guide to Tackling Attendance Challenges

Jessica Sprick, Tricia Berg

• Publisher: ASCD
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781416627142
• eBook ISBN: 9781416627159
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

Students can succeed in school—but they must be in school to do so.

Addressing absenteeism is as important as addressing problematic behavior and academic difficulties in the classroom. To address the pervasive issue of chronic absenteeism—that is, missing 10 percent of school days for any reason—educators must begin to move away from a model of reliance on reactive and punitive approaches and toward one that is preventive and positive, and that uses proven principles of behavioral change.

Teacher's Guide to Tackling Attendance Challenges, by nationally known educators Jessica Sprick and Tricia Berg, provides teachers with the information and resources they need to build a strong classroom-based initiative to improve the attendance of all students, creating a classroom culture of attendance with easy-to-implement strategies.

Sprick and Berg provide concrete and practical strategies for teachers to implement in their own classrooms to address chronic absence and improve the attendance of all students, including:

• A framework for implementation
• Sample lesson plans
• Examples and reproducibles for reinforcement systems
• Talking points for use with students and families
• Real-world examples of successful classroom-based approaches
• Handouts for parents on establishing routines, dealing with technology and more

When teachers apply the easy-to-implement and minimally invasive presented, they will see significant improvements in student attendance.

This book is a copublication of ASCD and Ancora Publishing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise for Teacher's Guide to Tackling Attendance Challenges
• Title page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Attendance—Not Another Competing Initiative
• Gathering and Analyzing the Right Data
• Speaking the Language of Attendance
• If You Want It, Teach It! Delivering Attendance Lessons
• Partnering with Families
• Implementing Effective Intervention Plans
• Conclusion
• Appendix A Student Reinforcers
• Appendix B Handouts for Families
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors
• Related ASCD Resources
• Back Cover