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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781416627142 |
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Publisher: | ASCD |
Publication date: | 02/19/2019 |
Pages: | 144 |
Sales rank: | 370,339 |
Product dimensions: | 6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.10(d) |
About the Author
Tricia Berg, PhD, is a national and international education consultant who has worked with schools, districts, and states to develop multi-tiered systems of support for students. She has provided professional development and coaching support to educational organizations in the areas of math, explicit instruction, positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), inclusive strategies, data-driven decision making, and special education compliance. Prior to becoming an education consultant, she worked as a district-level PBIS coordinator, behavior specialist, special education teacher, general education teacher, and paraprofessional. Ms. Berg has worked on research projects in the areas of mathematics, implementation and sustainability of PBIS, and attendance interventions.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Attendance-Not Another Competing Initiative 9
Chapter 2 Gathering and Analyzing the Eight Data 19
Chapter 3 Speaking the Language of Attendance 40
Chapter 4 If You Want It, Teach It! Delivering Attendance Lessons 64
Chapter 5 Partnering with Families 87
Chapter 6 Implementing Effective Intervention Plans 101
Conclusion 117
Appendix A Student Reinforcers 119
Appendix B Handouts for Families 121
Bibliography 134
Index 138
About the Authors 144