Attendance Works Resources
Our website offers resources for monitoring, understanding, and addressing chronic absence beginning in the early grades through secondary school. These strategies can be implemented at the school, district, and state level.
Scroll down the page to find resources to help you develop:
- Positive Engagement with families and students
- Actionable Data to help you identify students with too many absences
- Capacity Building to help build a culture of attendance in your classroom, school or district.
Looking for our toolkits? Find them below under Capacity Building.
All tools can be downloaded and used without express permission from Attendance Works. See our usage policy for more detail.
Click on one of the categories tiles below to find the tool you are looking for. Or type the name of the resource into the website search bar.
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Health Handouts
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Attendance Videos
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Incentives
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Making the Case Statements: Help bring partners on board
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Interactive Exercises
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Messaging
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Posters and Banners
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Handouts for Families
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Health Handouts
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Teens & Families
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Student Attendance Success Plans
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Spring Attendance Slump
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Data Tools
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State and Local Reports
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Addressing Barriers
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Self Assessments
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Scan of Environment and Attendance (SEAT)
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District and School Teams
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Toolkits
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Webinars
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Year Long Planning
Feel free to use a tool developed by outside authors or offer tools of your own. To submit comments about what worked and what could be improved — as well as share any new tools — please contact us. Be sure to include the author’s name and other pertinent bibliographic information.
If you wish to alter the wording of the handouts, please contact Cecelia Leong, Director for Programs: cecelia@attendanceworks.org
If you wish to add your logo to the handouts, please use these instructions.