Understanding Who Is Missing and Why
The pandemic only magnified chronic absence among students with the greatest needs and made the problem harder to ignore.
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Engaging All Students
Authors explore the reasons why students increasingly feel uninspired and disengaged at school and outline steps state leaders can take to help schools and districts increase students’ engagement and connectedness.
Trauma-Informed Practices: A Whole-School Policy Framework
State leaders can ensure that more school staff are equipped to help children deal with the effects of trauma.
Reengaging High School Students through Career Academies
When built around four key elements, academies deliver rigorous, relevant learning tied to students' career aspirations.
How State Leaders Can Stand Up for the COVID Generation of High Schoolers
Families need better data on students' academic progress; students need meaningful learning experiences and better information on postsecondary options.
Chronic Absence: A Call for Deeper Student and Family Engagement
Connecticut's experience underscores the value of a positive, systemic approach to improving attendance.
Centering School Connectedness
High schools are creating student success teams that prioritize relationships and leverage actionable data to reconnect students to school.
Getting Students Engaged in Learning
Targeted interventions and savvy classroom practices, coupled with supportive state policy, can draw disengaged students back in.