Name: Moving the Needle on Attendance: What’s Working NOW
Start: 2025-06-12T14:00:00ZEDT
End: 2025-06-12T15:00:00ZEDT

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Amid persistent attendance challenges, there are real signs of progress.

This session brings together a panel of experts who will highlight breakthroughs from the field—what’s working right now—and actionable strategies district leaders can use immediately.

Attendance Work’s Hedy Chang will share the latest data and a shifting, root-cause-based approach to attendance grounded in family partnerships. TalkingPoints’ Mallary Swartz, PhD will present research on the impact of family engagement on attendance, including findings from Tulsa Public schools. Leaders from Tulsa Public Schools will share how they’re putting these ideas into action—and data that show how their efforts are making a difference!

Join us for practical insights, drawn from real schools tackling real challenges.

Mallary Swartz

Director of Research, TalkingPoints

Stephanie Gregory

Director of Family Attendance Supports, Tulsa Public Schools

Grace Cáceres-Cuadros

Attendance Recovery Coordinator, Tulsa Public Schools

Hedy Chang

Executive Director, Attendance Works

Shionka McGlory

Parent Involvement Facilitator, Tulsa Public Schools, Unity Learning Academy

Kate Pechacek

CEO / Founder, OpendoorsEd

Kate Pechacek currently serves as K12 strategic advisor to systems-improving ed tech organizations and school districts, including TalkingPoints, and is the founder and CEO of OpendoorsEd. Prior to founding OpendoorsEd, Kate served as Head of Impact at TalkingPoints, one of several roles she has held in education technology over the last nine years. She began her nearly thirty-year career in education as a secondary math teacher. In addition to fifteen years as a teacher, Kate has served in districts nationwide, holding multiple site and district leadership roles in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and MTSS. She is passionate about ensuring equity, disrupting predictability, and narrowing opportunity gaps.

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