Addressing Chronic Absenteeism

Service Description

Chronic absenteeism is a crisis facing every community because the nature of the relationship between students and their school system has changed rapidly. Research suggests that even though the problem of chronic absenteeism plagues school systems in relatively uniform ways, the solutions need to be driven at the local level. We use a systems thinking approach to work with district teams and community stakeholders to understand the local context and then develop solutions that fit your students, families, community, and school system in order to maximize the effect.

Outcomes: Participants will be able to:

  1. Use the Habits of a Systems Thinker and systems thinking tools to analyze local data and identify stakeholder groups.
  2. Apply a systems thinking mindset to problem identification and goal-setting.
  3. Apply the Habits of a Systems Thinker and systems thinking tools to identify leverage points in the local system in order to design interventions.
  4. Apply systems thinking Habits and tools to design empathy interview structure and process for on-going data collection.
  5. Identify systems thinking strategies and experiences that will assist the leadership team in implementation and evaluation phases.

Structure:

  • 2 or 3 days. Dependent on the amount of work time and collaboration desired.
  • Inter-disciplinary school/district teams.
  • Additional follow-up could include further systems thinking capacity-building, implementation support, and/or coaching.
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