attendance

How Betting on Recess Paid Off for These Schools

How Betting on Recess Paid Off for These Schools

If students could choose, would they want to stay in your class? The question challenged Matthew Ginsburg, Principal of the Chittick, a K0-6 Boston Public School, when he first encountered it in a teacher success rubric as a fourth-grade math teacher. He assumed kids didn’t want to come to math or other classes with difficult topics, like adding fractions.

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Behavior, Attendance, and Belonging: Strategies for Neurodivergent Students

Presented by Duncan Scherer, Assistant Dean of Teaching Exceptional Learners, Relay Graduate School of Education, and Superintendent-in-Residence, Social Cipher; and Lucas Harrington, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist and SEL Gaming Consultant, Social Cipher
Moderated by Vanessa Castañeda Gill, CEO and Founder, Social Cipher

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Improving Attendance Through Belonging and Routines

Chronic absenteeism is an ongoing problem in schools that significantly hinders learning—after all, students can’t learn if they’re not present. So, what can leaders do to address this?