Essential Guide to Improving Attendance in your School: Practical resources for all school managers

Designed to support the author's Managing School Attendance: Successful Intervention Strategies for Reducing Truancy, this work provides checklists, timetables, and other planning and implementation resources for a whole-school attendance strategy at the primary or secondary level. The resources are accompanied by explanations, rationales, and reviews of supporting research. The book will be useful to school administrators, senior management teams, attendance support staff, and classroom teachers. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
In this engaging book Professor Ken Reid focuses on the needs of school professionals and leaders, providing them with workable, achievable solutions to radically reducing their truancy rates. As well as discussing the importance of regular attendance and the importance of sound leadership, Professor Reid provides:A highly effective whole school strategy for use in both primary and secondary schoolsChecklists on good practiceEarly intervention strategiesAdvice on using attendance panelsGuidance on effective monitoring schemesSupporting throughout with case-studies, sample letters, reports, attendance calendars and action plans, this book will be an essential staff-room resource for head teachers, deputy head teachers, teachers and any educational professional eager to raise standards for all.