Randy Sprick's Safe & Civil Schools – Practical Solutions, Positive Results!

Addressing Absenteeism and Truancy

For students to be successful in school, they need to be in school. Nationwide, far too many students are not in school. Missing just two days a month places students at significant increased risk of academic failure, social and behavioral difficulties in school, dropping out, and a host of other negative school and life effects.

Results (elementary and middle schools)

Fifteen pilot schools from districts in Michigan participated in a day of Safe & Civil Schools training in October of 2014 to address chronic absence and truancy. These schools implemented a variety of universal prevention procedures and experienced the following reductions in percent of chronically absent students in the first four months of school. Click on the graph below to enlarge the image.

Professional Development from Safe & Civil Schools

Absenteeism and truancy training provided through Safe & Civil Schools helps schools and districts:

• Increase student, family, and staff ability and motivation to get students to school each day and on time
• Analyze multiple attendance measures to identify concerns and prioritize resources.
• Implement simple, practical strategies to prevent widespread absenteeism problems at a universal/schoolwide level.
• Provide effective intervention in a multi-tiered model, utilizing function-based approaches.

Safe & Civil Schools can tailor training to meet the specific needs of your school or district. Some possible training options include:

• Universal prevention—when large numbers of students in your school are missing two or more days each month (10% or more of school), work to reduce the numbers of students who are at risk by focusing on Tier 1 prevention strategies.
• Function-based assessment and intervention for students who have not responded to universal prevention procedures. This training focuses on identification and intervention with Tier 2 and 3 supports.
• Combined training across multiple days in universal prevention and function-based intervention.

For more information about professional development from Safe & Civil Schools, call today!
1-800-323-8819