Register with care. If students are going to be successful in school, they first have to be in school. Yet far too many students are missing critical amounts of school, including students who receive special education services. Improving attendance is a necessary step in increasing equity and opportunity for all by ensuring that students receive needed services.

This presentation will assist educators in how to identify students who are at risk due to absenteeism and then implement practical solutions across all grade levels to improve attendance. Participants will learn how to analyze absenteeism data in meaningful ways, teach and motivate students and families to improve attendance, and use function-based processes to intervene with individuals who are chronically absent.

Participants get a copy of the book by the same title.

Carolyn Novelly, M.Ed. has worked in the field of education since 1981. With a background in Special Education, she served 17 years at an alternative school for students with severe social and emotional disorders in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, two of those years as a supervisor of classroom-based mental health counselors.


After moving to Jacksonville, Florida in 1998, she worked as an elementary school counselor with Duval County Public Schools and an adjunct instructor in both classroom management and behavior management at the University of North Florida. She coordinated and monitored the implementation of Foundations, a PBIS delivery model in 164 Duval County schools and conducted multiple CHAMPS and Tough Kid workshops throughout the district.
Ms. Novelly is currently an educational consultant and a national trainer for Safe & Civil Schools.

PK-12 teachers of all disciplines and all content areas (bilingual, special ed, ELA/R, music ed, etc.) who currently teach in a Texas ISD, CISD, or TEA identified charter school system, campus and district level administrators, pre-service teachers, substitute teachers, school board members. ***This training is funded by the Texas Education Agency and NO vendors or for-profit or private practice personnel will be admitted to this session. ****

Accountability Systems
Administration & Leadership
Counseling
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Diagnosis / Removal of Obstacles to Student Learning
Discipline Management
Diversity and Special Needs Populations
Social/Emotional Development
Special Education
Student Behavior

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