Evaluate your attendance policy during the summer months

What’s a sure-fire way to improve academic achievement? Research says: Increase student attendance! Take time this summer to get parents involved in evaluating and updating your attendance policy. To get started, recruit a team of parents and staff and invite them to meet for discussions about attendance. (You may also consider having students serve on[…]

Parents: Tardiness takes a toll on achievement

Missing school every now and then doesn’t seem like such a big deal. But being absent even part of a day can affect a student’s academic achievement in many ways, resulting in: Lower grades. Students who arrive after class begins miss important elements of a lesson. Missed information. Tardy students often miss hearing announcements and[…]