Resources
Attendance Works — This website provides information and intervention strategies to address chronic absenteeism at the community, district, and school levels.
Frequently Asked Questions Related to Attendance and Enrollment provides answers from the Florida Department of Education.
How to Text Message Parents to Reduce Chronic Absence Using an Evidence-Based Approach 
— This document from the Institute of Education Science (IES), US Department of education provides guidance on findings and lessons learned from IES’s successful study, “Can Texting Parents Improve Attendance in Elementary School? A Test of an Adaptive Messaging Strategy.”
International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention — This organization’s mission is to create a partnership which facilitates the dissemination of information, emerging practices, and research designed to support learning and increase high school graduation rates.
The National Center for School Engagement was established based on over a decade of educational research conducted by Colorado Foundation for Families and Children. The center has generated many resources about school attendance, attachment, and achievement.
The National Dropout Prevention Center provides knowledge and promote networking for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and families to increase opportunities for youth in at-risk situations to receive the quality education and services necessary to successfully graduate from high school.
Reduce Absences in Early Grades with Personalized Postcards — This document from the Proving Grounds “How-To” series, shares findings from a piloted postcard intervention targeted at reaching parents of early-grade students during the 2018–19 school year. The purpose of these postcards was to reduce absenteeism by addressing parental misconceptions about the cumulative number of student absences and the academic content missed in prekindergarten through second grade.