The report — prepared by Urban Strategies Council with support from Great Oakland Public Schools, Oakland Public Education Fund, and Attendance Works — highlights several schools that have shown remarkable
improvements in student attendance.
In the Central Valley and across the country, the Parent Home Visit Project is offering a different model of family engagement that has led to many positive results including better communication between school and home, and
improvements in student attendance rates and test scores.
Not exact matches
A national school - based mental health program that is now reaching almost one quarter of all elementary school
students in Chile appears to have produced significant
improvements in both behavioral and academic outcomes, such as attention problems and school
attendance, among participating
students.
Kids
in After - School Programs Make Academic Gains After only two years of funding after - school programs, mostly for elementary and middle school
students, California has seen
improvement in attendance and behavior at school and
in the academic skills of children
in the programs.
These agreements have been a basis for increasing
student enrolments
in education and
in increasing
attendance rates, where both the Indigenous community and the school take actions to achieve
improvements and monitor their joint impact over time.
«From the first year of the program, we have data that demonstrates significant
improvement in attendance for the majority of
students who participated
in A-Team,» Boze said.
Though the increase
in school
attendance among disciplined
students led to only very modest
improvements in their academic performance on state reading exams, it did not have a substantively negative effect on their peers» academic performance.
be updated annually and, as so updated, approved by the board of education and implemented no later than the first day of regular
student attendance of each year that the school remains
in improvement.
A 6 - year study found that
attendance in a summer math program results
in a 20 %
improvement compared to
students in a control group who did not attend.
Evidence points to the
improvement - focused messaging having a stronger impact on both credit attainment and
student attendance, though the size of the study limits our ability to call the difference
in outcomes between positive and
improvement messaging statistically significant.
The key lever for school
improvement is to ensure that the curriculum delivers
student destinations while demonstrating that excellent
attendance and hard work
in school gets you a good career path.
Pastchal - Smith said a key part to the school's
improvement came from sharing the school's goals with
students and parents to help them become more invested
in their school's success, and especially
in student attendance which is critical to securing funding under the state's funding formula.
Despite high levels of poverty
in their communities, these schools have sustained
improvements on multiple measures of
student success (achievement test scores, graduation rates,
attendance rates, and behavior measures); and national and state organizations have recognized and honored them for their achievements.
Her schools have been recognized for outstanding
improvement in reading,
attendance and overall
student achievement.
The school's New York City Progress Report speaks of the success of their approach:
Students»
improvement in attendance at BCHS is among the strongest of any transfer school.
We know our efforts are paying off
in a number of ways, ranging from
improvements in student test scores,
attendance rates and parent survey results, to a decrease
in failing grades and disciplinary incidents.
I have witnessed similar phenomena at the middle school and elementary school levels, when principals and teachers create clubs, sports, and activities for
students and then witness
improvements in behavior,
attendance, and academic performance.
This school
attendance improvement means more
students are
in class, working to achieve academic success.
Ninth - grade
students in our network of schools have shown distinct
improvements in attendance, credit accumulation and Regents passage rates.
WHEREAS, research on Community Schools has demonstrated
improvements in student achievement, dropout rates,
student behavior,
attendance, parental involvement, graduation rates, college going rates and school accountability ratings.
Math and reading test scores remain well below city averages, but the school has seen
improvement in its
attendance rates — with the portion of «chronically absent»
students who miss 18 or more days dropping from 36 percent to 24 percent.
Most recently, she was recognized by the Advocates for Children of NJ (ACNJ) and the NJ Department of Education Regional Achievement Center (RAC) for her drastic
improvement of
student attendance and the decrease
in chronic absenteeism above the state average.
Because nearly 80 percent of
students with high levels of
attendance in 2014 also were high attenders
in 2013, it is not clear whether the broader positive outcomes for high attenders after the second summer are the result of cumulative
attendance over both summers or program
improvements in the second summer, and researchers concluded outcomes likely reflected a combination of both.
«A lot of people think performance is all about tested skills and so there's been a lot of money put into programs aimed at improving
student test scores — but what we find is that
improvements in attendance in the middle grades are associated with better high school outcomes than improving test scores,» said Allensworth.
(Ontario, Ore.) Ontario School District 8C is implementing a new
attendance improvement program
in an effort to further reduce chronic absenteeism and promote
student success.
There has been significant
improvement in attendance and
student achievement since the beginning of school.
Teachers or administrators can guide parents of chronically absent
students in developing and carrying out this
attendance improvement plan.
In 2016, StriveTogether launched the K - 12 Impact and
Improvement Network, which focused on
student attendance.
Successfully implemented various
student engagement practices
in previous position as an assistant teacher that coincided with
attendance improvement of over 18 percent as well as a test score
improvement of 12 percent.
Strategies: To ensure that DECS plan for Aboriginal Education
in early Childhood and Schooling is implemented; advocating a national Standard Reporting Framework; ensuring that DECS review its structures, resources, management and curriculum practices and takes appropriate action to achieve optimum
improvements in educational outcomes for Aboriginal
students in the priority areas of - decision making, early childhood, literacy and numeracy,
attendance and retention, employment of Aboriginal staff, Aboriginal languages, culturally appropriate curriculum.