Leadership for Sustainability: Superintendents Making a Difference

Wednesday, September 25, 2024:  12-1:30pm PT / 3-4:30pm ET

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Join Attendance Works, the Institute for Educational Leadership and our campaign partners for the fourth and final webinar of the 2024 Attendance Awareness Campaign series, with the theme, Be Present, Be Powerful!

In this webinar, superintendents from Columbus, Ohio, Topeka, Kansas and Livingston, California will share how they are achieving reductions in chronic absence – post-pandemic – in very different types of communities.

Speakers will share their top strategies and  lessons learned about equipping schools to take a data-informed approach. They will describe how they have gained support from  strategic partners and are sustaining their efforts over time. These inspiring examples will illustrate what is possible with leadership from superintendents.

You’ll hear key takeaways from recently completed research from an Ad Council Research Institute survey on how parents of K-12 students view education and school absences. The findings – and a new toolkit – will provide a deeper look into how to best develop messaging to motivate families to send their children to school in person. The findings and toolkit are most effective when used in tandem with a comprehensive, multi-pronged approach to address chronic absenteeism.

Confirmed speakers:

• • Dr. Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent, Topeka Public Schools, Kansas
  • Dr. Angela Chapman, Superintendent and CEO of Columbus City Schools, Ohio
  • Derrick Feldmann, Managing Director, Ad Council Research Institute
  • Andrés Zamora,  Superintendent, Livingston Union School District, California
  • Kwesi Rollins, Vice President, Institute for Educational Leadership
  • Hedy Chang, Executive Director, Attendance Works