PLUACLD1027

School Attendance 101

Standard 1: Planning for Continuous Improvement

10 week Course

 

Course Overview

Encouraging regular school attendance is one of the most powerful ways you can prepare your students for success. When you make school attendance a priority, students earn better grades, develop healthy life habits, avoid negative behaviors, and have a better chance of graduating from high school. This professional study will allow participants to understand the importance of school attendance, and explore strategies to discourage truancy. Participants will read and explore research, and conduct interviews with school principals to learn about their school's attendance policies and initiatives. The rigor of the course increases as participants use their acquired knowledge from the course research and peer collaborations to create and compose an action plan collaboratively with their school’s leadership team to discourage truancy to improve their school’s attendance.

 

Course Objectives

Explore the importance of school attendance.

Understand the impact of truancy issues on the academic success of students.

How to increase and improve school attendance.

Gain resources and tools to cultivate a school’s culture of successful school-wide attendance.

 

Prerequisites

This course is for teachers, school administrators, curriculum specialists, and other school personnel. Participants are expected to have regular access to the Internet. Additionally, participants should be familiar with using email, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Adobe, scanning and uploading files, and browsing the Internet. Further, participants are expected to create a Google account. Lastly, participants must hold an Alabama Administrative Certificate.

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​Course Tuition 

Course Tuition is $250.00.

You will be granted an extension for 5 days only at a cost of $75.00.  NO ADDITIONAL EXTENSIONS WILL BE GRANTED.  If you need additional time after you have paid for the 5 days, you must sign up to retake the course and pay $250.00.

All fees are NON-REFUNDABLE.

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Purchase orders are accepted.  Please email us to request a copy of our W-9. 

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Course Dates

         October 18 - December 20, 2024         

November 8 - January 24, 2025

December 6 - February 14, 2025

January 17 - March 28, 2025

  

        

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