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NSAESC WEBINARS, PREVIOUSLY RECORDED:
Chronic Absenteeism
- Strategies to Reduce Health Related Causes of Absenteeism (Attendance Works)
March 13, 2018, 1:00pm ET - Teaching Attendance: Involving Educators with Attendance Improvement Strategies (Attendance Works)
January 23, 2018, 1:00pm ET - Creating a Warm and Engaging School Climate to Support Attendance (Attendance Works)
January 16, 2018, 1:00pm ET - Taking a Multi-Tiered Approach to Attendance Improvement at the State, District, and School Level (Attendance Works)
January 9, 2018, 1:00pm ET - Linking School Climate, Cultural Responsiveness, and Exclusionary Discipline to Chronic Absenteeism
Sept. 21, 2017 - Tackling the Early Attendance Gap
Aug. 30, 2017, 3:00pm ET - Using Early Warning Systems to Overcome Poverty’s Influence on Absenteeism
May 17, 2017 - Lessons Learned about Improving Attendance Among Our Most Vulnerable Students
May 9, 2017 - Methods for Identifying Root Causes of Chronic Absence
April 25, 2017 - Linking School Climate, Cultural Responsiveness, and Exclusionary Discipline to Chronic Absenteeism
March 23, 2017 - Realizing the Power of Chronic Absence Data to Ensure Safe Supportive Schools
December 7, 2016
Early Warning Systems
- Using Data Displays to Visualize EWS in Classrooms & Schools (Everyone Graduates Center)
February 22, 2018, 3:00pm ET - Connecting Parents & Guardians to EWS – Everyone Graduates Center (EGC)
December 14, 2017, 3:o0pm ET - Intervention Review: Conducting School Based Analysis of Interventions and Strategies
June 6, 2017, 3:00pm ET - What is Needed for Effective Data Tools for EWS: Tracking Data and Interventions
May 23, 2017 - Using Early Warning Systems to Overcome Poverty’s Influence on Absenteeism
May 17, 2017 - Early Warning Systems Effective Data Review Meetings
March 15, 2017 - Early Warning Systems Behavior Strategies
March 8, 2017 - Tier 1 Supports within an Early Warning System to Improve On-Track Rates
March 1, 2017 - Building a Resource Map – Providing Mentors Ongoing Support While They Serve as Connectors
February 28, 2017 - Introduction to Early Warning Systems
February 22, 2017
Student Supports
- Engaging & Learning from Student Voice – Everyone Graduates Center (EGC)
December 7, 2017, 3:o0pm ET - Supporting Youth in the Wake of Violence and Trauma – MENTOR
November 28, 2017, 3:o0pm ET
Success Mentors
- Equipping Success Mentors with the Necessary Skills to Support Students with Disabilities (Attendance Works)
January 30, 2018, 1:00 – 2:30pm ET - Mentoring 201: Overcoming Mentoring Challenges
Sept. 14, 2017, 1:30pm ET - Mentoring 101: Building a Strong Foundation for Your Success Mentor Relationship
Sept. 12, 2017, 1:30pm ET - Supporting the Mentoring Match
Sept. 7, 2017, 1:30pm ET - Strong Starts: Matching & Initiating New Mentoring Relationships
Sept. 6, 2017, 1:30pm ET - Success Mentors to Address Chronic Absenteeism: A Four-Step Approach
February 21, 2017 - Growth Mindset in Practice: Successfully Applied in Youth Mentoring Work
November 14, 2016
EWS Virtual Convening (October 2017)
NSAESC Success Mentor Peer Learning Convening (September 2017)
NSAESC Virtual National Convening (April 2017)
2017 NSAESC EWS FALL VIRTUAL CONVENING
October 24-25, 2017
Videos
- Plenary 1: Early Warning Systems: Connecting EWS and ESSA
- Integrating EWS into Existing Structures
- Plenary 2: Perspectives from States: The Implications of Including Chronic Absence as a Measure of Accountability
- Plenary 3: Strengthening Your EWS Strategy through Relationships
- Breakout Session 1: Homeless Education 101: A Primer on Supporting the Education of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Breakout Session 2: Key Intervention Points: Addressing Chronic Absence in Transition Grades
- Breakout Session 3: Being an Intervention Champion
- Breakout Session 4: Transition Toolkit 3.0: Meeting the Educational Needs of Youth Exposed to the Juvenile Justice System
- Breakout Session 5 : EWS in Elementary Schools
- Breakout Session 6: Creating, Monitoring, and Improving Tiered Interventions
- Breakout Session 7: Managing an Effective School-Integrated Mentoring Program
- Breakout Session 8: Psychological First Aid (PFA) for Schools
- Breakout Session 9: Getting the Diagnosis Right: Setting Schools Up for Success – Using ESSA Needs Assessments
Convening Presentations, Materials, Etc.
- Plenary 1: Early Warning Systems: Connecting EWS and ESSA
- Integrating EWS into Existing Structures
- Plenary 2: Perspectives from States: The Implications of Including Chronic Absence as a Measure of Accountability
- Plenary 3: Strengthening Your EWS Strategy through Relationships
- Plenary 3: Getting Ready for Action on School-Integrated Mentoring: Transforming Student Engagement through Relationships
- Session 1: Homeless Education 101: A Primer on Supporting the Education of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Breakout Session 2: Key Intervention Points: Addressing Chronic Absence in Transition Grades
- Breakout Session 3: Being an Intervention Champion
- Breakout Session 4: Transition Toolkit 3.0: Meeting the Educational Needs of Youth Exposed to the Juvenile Justice System
- Breakout Session 5 : EWS in Elementary Schools
- Breakout Session 6: Creating, Monitoring, and Improving Tiered Interventions
- Breakout Session 7: Managing an Effective School-Integrated Mentoring Program
- Breakout Session 7: School Checklist for Developing and Launching a Success Mentors Program
- Breakout Session 8: Psychological First Aid (PFA) for Schools
- Breakout Session 9: Getting the Diagnosis Right: Setting Schools Up for Success – Using ESSA Needs Assessments
2017 NSAESC SUCCESS MENTOR PEER LEARNING CONVENING
September 19-20, 2017
Videos
- Building a Culture of Mentoring at Your Schools
- Chronic Absence Reports to Support the Success Mentor Strategy
Convening Presentations, Materials, Etc.
- Building a Culture of Mentoring at Your Schools
- Chronic Absence Reports to Support the Success Mentor Strategy
- Connecting Your Success Mentor Initiative to an Attendance Message
- Innovative Techniques for Supporting Success Mentors
- Intra Agency Support for Success Mentors
- Kansas City Expansion
- Keeping Youth Engaged and Leadership Teams Motivated
- Leveraging a District Mentoring Portfolio
- National Evaluation
- Networking Across Districts
- Outreach to Families and Communities
- Structures to Strengthen the Success Mentor Community of Practice
- Trauma Informed Mentoring
- Using Qualitative and Quantitative Data to Target Tier 2 Intervention Strategies
Photos
- Networking Across Districts
Products created by each participant team - Structures to Strengthen the Success Mentor Community of Practice
Gathering Feedback for Future Communications/Events
2017 VIRTUAL CONVENING
April 3, 2017, Day 1:
- Welcome & Plenary 1: Early Warning Systems
Dr. Robert Balfanz and Johann Liljengrenn, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University - ESSA, Early Warning Systems and Chronic Absenteeism
Dr. Robert Balfanz, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University - Plenary 2: Reducing Chronic Absence
Hedy Chang, Attendance Works
April 4, 2017, Day 2:
- Plenary 3: Success Mentors
Delia Hagan, MENTOR, Linda Muskauski, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University - Breakout Session 1: Chronic Absenteeism, The Fifth Indicator in ESSA
Lexi Barrett, Jobs for the Future, Sue Fothergill, Attendance Works - Breakout Session 2: Observing Student Behaviors to Inform Early Warning Systems
Johann Liljengren, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, Eric Toshalis, Jobs for the Future - Breakout Session 3: What We Have Learned about Data Systems in Early Warning Systems
Paul Verstraete, Talent Development Secondary at Johns Hopkins University - Breakout Session 4: Linking Safe & Healthy School Activities to EWS & Resources
Linda Muskauski, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, Rita Foy Moss, Office of Safe and Healthy Students, OESE - Breakout Session 5 (REPEAT): What We Have Learned about Data Systems in Early Warning Systems
Paul Verstraete, Talent Development Secondary at Johns Hopkins University - Breakout Session 6 (REPEAT): Chronic Absenteeism, The Fifth Indicator in ESSA
Lexi Barrett, Jobs for the Future, Sue Fothergill, Attendance Works - Breakout Session 7: Early Warning Systems as a School Improvement Strategy within ESSA
Johann Liljengren, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University - Breakout Session 8: Building a Multi-tiered & Multi-Sector Response to Chronic Absenteeism
Linda Muskauski and Dr. Robert Balfanz, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University
CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM
Want to Make a School Better? Get Kids to Show Up
Dr. Robert Balfanz cites chronic absenteeism as “the biggest thing in school improvement that people have not paid attention to” on NPR Morning Edition’s “Want to Make a School Better? Get Kids to Show Up.”
The Importance of Being in School
Chronic absenteeism is not the same as truancy or average daily attendance – the attendance rate schools use for state report cards and federal accountability. Chronic absenteeism means missing 10 percent of a school year for any reason. A school can have average daily attendance of 90 percent and still have 40 percent of its students chronically absent, because on different days, different students make up that 90 percent. The Importance of Being in School: A Report on Absenteeism in the Nation’s Public Schools details the effects of chronic absenteeism in the United States. Download the full report (pdf).
Preventing Missed Opportunity: Taking Collective Action to Confront Chronic Absence
This report builds on the first national chronic absence data set from the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) from the 2013-14 school year. The analysis also shows that chronic absenteeism follows poverty wherever it is found in significant concentrations. Given the scope of the problem, the brief lays out key steps school districts and states can take to turn around chronic absenteeism, by using real time data to trigger collective action to ensure every child has the opportunity to achieve in school. Download the full report (pdf).
EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
What Works Clearinghouse
The US department of Education has compiled research on interventions, programs, and practices that have a solid research background and can help schools and districts with making decisions about what to pursue. Learn more about the What Works Clearinghouse.
Middle School Matters Institute
The Middle School Matters Institute has created a field guide detailing research-based practices that schools and districts can implement. They house a variety of toolkits and guides based on compiled evidence. Explore the research for teachers, school leaders, and many more resources.
MENTORING
The Mentoring Effect
The Mentoring Effect is a compelling report informed by the first-ever nationally representative survey of young people on the topic of both informal and formal mentoring, as well as a literature and landscape review and insights from a variety of key leaders in business, philanthropy, government, and education. Follow this link to read the full report.
Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring
MENTOR’s cornerstone publication, the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring™, details research-informed and practitioner-approved Standards for creating and sustaining quality youth mentoring programs and consequently, impactful mentoring relationships. Follow this link to read the publication.