In this webinar, we explore why traditional attendance communication breaks down, where districts lose time and visibility, and what a more proactive model looks like. You’ll get an exclusive first look at a new approach to attendance engagement, built directly into the communications platform trusted by over 5,000 districts.
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Apptegy blogs:
Chronic Absenteeism is about more than Absences
Chronic absenteeism continues to rise, even as schools send more attendance alerts than ever. The issue isn’t awareness—it’s communication. Learn what's been proven to work to reduce chronic absenteeism at scale.
The Hidden 80%: How to Prevent Students from Becoming Chronically Absent
New research suggests the 10% chronic absenteeism threshold is already too late. While districts focus on students in crisis, most attendance systems miss preventing problems across the other 80% of student populations.
Attendance Pro: The Tool that Helps Track & Reduce Student Absenteeism
Explore proven strategies to combat chronic absenteeism and learn how Attendance Pro helps schools improve student attendance through early, two-way outreach.
Outside research:
Everyone Is Missing More School: How Student Attendance Patterns Have Shifted Over Time
Attendance is no longer concentrated among a small group of outliers. A larger share of students is missing school at moderate to high levels, and near-perfect attendance has become much less common.
How to Text Message Parents to Reduce Chronic Absences Using an Evidence-Based Approach
Findings from IES-funded research suggest that text messaging can be effective in reducing rates of chronic absenteeism.
Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism
Chronic absenteeism remains a major challenge for schools and districts nationwide. Although many states are making progress in reducing chronic absenteeism—defined as students missing 10 percent or more of the school year—attendance levels have not returned to their pre-pandemic baseline, which was already high in many places.
This study investigates how researchers’ measurement choices shape predictions of academic risk and how absenteeism can be more effectively operationalized as an early warning signal.