Attendance Awareness
September is Attendance Awareness Month, a time for individuals and organizations to learn about attendance issues, absenteeism, and the effects attendance can have on academic performance and success.
School attendance is essential to academic success, but too often students, parents, and schools don’t realize how quickly absences, excused or unexcused, can add up to academic trouble. Chronic absence— missing just 18 days per school year— can lead to third graders being unable to master reading, sixth graders failing courses, and ninth-graders dropping out of high school.
Additional Links:
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Help Your Child Succeed In School: Build the Habit of Good Attendance Early (English)
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Help Your Child Succeed In School: Build the Habit of Good Attendance Early (Spanish)
- Preschool, Kindergarten Get Ready for School (English)
- Preschool, Kindergarten Get Ready for School (Spanish)
- Keep Your Child On Track in Middle & High School: Pay Attention to Attendance (English)
- Keep Your Child On Track in Middle & High School: Pay Attention to Attendance (Spanish)
September Attendance Spirit Days
Join us in recognizing the importance of good school attendance by participating in the following spirit days each Thursday in the month of September.
WEEK 1
Sept. 7
ATTENDANCE KICK-OFF
Students and staff wear sports team t-shirts/jerseys to kick of great school attendance!
WEEK 2
Sept. 14
STARRING OUR STUDENTS
Students and staff can take selfies at school and post them to social media.
#everyminutecounts
WEEK 3
Sept. 21
SHINING STAR ATTENDANCE
Students and staff wear
neon colors.
WEEK 4
Sept. 28
TWO STARS ALIKE
Students and staff come to school dressed alike to support students daily
a-twin-attendance.