Name: Shifting the Landscape of K-12 Attendance and Engagement
Start: 2022-02-03T15:00:00ZEST
End: 2022-02-03T16:00:00ZEST

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We will get through this (hopefully) final stage of the pandemic. But then what?

For the past two years, there has been a dramatic increase in chronic absence. Where most see attendance as only a problem, it also represents an opportunity to rebuild learning conditions and meaningful family engagement pathways so all kids can become more successful.

In this webinar, we will discuss effective ways to strengthen your student and family engagement and communication strategies. From necessary learning conditions promoted through restoring whole school supports to the importance of effective two-way family communication, attendees will take away new approaches to shift the landscape and meet contemporary attendance challenges head-on.

Hedy N. Chang

Founder and Executive Director, Founder and Executive Director, Attendance Works

Hedy Nai-Lin Chang is the founder and Executive Director of Attendance Works, a national and state level initiative aimed at advancing student success by addressing chronic absence. A skilled presenter, facilitator, researcher and writer, she co-authored the seminal report, Present, Engaged and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades, as well as numerous other articles about student attendance. Deeply committed to promoting two-generation solutions to achieving a more just and equitable society, Hedy has spent more than three decades working in the fields of family support, family economic success, education and child development. She served as a senior program officer at the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and as co-director of California Tomorrow, a nonprofit committed to drawing strength from cultural, linguistic and racial diversity. In February 2013, Hedy was named by the White House as a Champion of Change for her commitment to furthering African American Education.

Phillip Shaver

Vice President of Education, Impact, and Community at AllHere

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