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Structuring a Detailed School Plan for Absenteeism, Truancy, and Dropout Prevention Kindle Edition

by Jerome Thompson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars (6)
This book is a practical guide for planning strategies to address student absenteeism. It provides administrators, teachers, outreach workers, social workers, attendance specialists, clerks, and other professionals with information and potential planning solutions for dealing with students struggling with chronic absenteeism and their parents/guardians. This book will help schools create a campus plan to address the problem efficiently and appropriately.

The focus of this guide is providing recommendations to alternative, elementary, middle, and high school staff for structuring a detailed plan to manage school absenteeism. To be effective, schools must have a clear goal, complete with names, responsibilities, time frames, proof of completion, and resources. Early intervention is the key to identifying truant students and getting results, and this guidebook provides the structure for staff to implement such a plan and to initiate early intervention.

Many school staff who are assigned the responsibility of tracking students’ attendance data aren’t trained adequately. They lack knowledge of local school board policies and state attendance laws, and they don’t know how to properly use of data and withdrawal codes, to print attendance reports, to contact parents, to set up meetings, or to seek legal intervention. Many of them don’t have a user-friendly resource attendance manual that is ready for campus staff who need technical support. Many lack a campus plan with a checklist available for school staff about attendance responsibilities, time frames, resources required, and evidence of completion. These procedures must be in place in order to identify truant students and to provide early intervention quickly.

I wrote this practical guidebook for attendance professionals new to truancy, tenure professionals, clerks, outreach workers, social workers, and anyone else who works with students with excessive absences. It’s a straightforward guide for preparing anyone to deal with truant students and their families. In Part I, I discuss the causes of truancy, and in Part II, I provide detailed strategies for managing school attendance. You can use this information for a presentation for training attendance professionals, school staff members new to truancy, or district staff members responsible for students. In addition, you can use it as an annual refresher workshop. In short, it can help anyone trying to reduce the dropout rate and increase attendance in schools.
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[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Structuring a Detailed School Plan for Absenteeism, Truancy, and Dropout Prevention" by Jerome Thompson.]

4 out of 4 stars

If you take a good look at the statistics, you will see that the rates of absenteeism, truancy, and students dropping out from middle and high school, especially concerning economically disadvantaged students, are high. "Chronic absenteeism affects over six million students in the United States, which is about 13% of the total student population, with at least 10% of kindergarten and first-grade students missing a month or more of school each year." - Page 12. This raises urgent questions around the causes, long-term negative effects, and strategies that can be employed in tackling these issues.
To that effect, Jerome Thompson, an attendance officer in Texas with decades worth of experience working with dropout-prone students, has presented a guide titled Structuring a Detailed School Plan for Absenteeism, Truancy, and Dropout Prevention.

The comprehensive nature of the book and its presentation in a clear and easy-to-follow manner are the standout aspects for me. The author passed his message in two parts, with the first part covering what absenteeism and truancy really mean, their variations in different states in the U.S., their prevalence, and causes, while the second part highlights detailed, practicable strategies for tackling these issues. I applaud Jerome Thompson for the way he presents these problems and shows the consequences of not working on them. As readers go through this book, they will feel invested in helping children through these issues, especially when they consider how they affect society at large.

Regardless of your field, this book calls all of us to action and reiterates that helping truant children should be a joint effort of the community. Nevertheless, there are in-depth lessons for people who work on campus, from administrators and teachers to attendance specialists. The way the author highlights the significance of parents and guardians in helping children is also noteworthy. We are also taken through identifying parents that add to the problem of truancy, from "The Defenseless and Reckless Parents" to "The Naysayer of Education Parents," and how to handle these kinds of parents.

The author also employs numerous lists to simplify the process of applying the strategies introduced. We are also offered examples to guide us on utilizing his methods. One that I found very helpful was his example showing the format of a warning letter to parents while detailing when to use punitive action.

Furthermore, the book is well researched, and the author includes his sources that not only back up his methods but also encourage readers to research more. This guide is also professionally edited. At just 114 pages in length, it is concise and easy to read through but detailed, informative, and extremely helpful. I cannot think of anything I dislike about this book. Therefore I rate Structuring a Detailed School Plan for Absenteeism, Truancy, and Dropout Prevention four out of four stars. School administrators, teachers, attendance specialists, social workers, clerks, and parents will learn a lot from reading this book.

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 16, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.0 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 110 pages
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  • Best Sellers Rank: #2,804,241 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars (6)

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Please visit www.interventionacademy.com for school truancy and absenteeism training information.

Jerome Thompson has over twenty years of experience working with traunts, dropout-prone students, and their families for a Texas school district and more than ten years of experience working with families involved in Child Protective Services. This book covers his experience in both agencies and is broken down into two major areas:

1. The causes and effects of excessive absences and truant behavior

2. Setting up and structuring campus absenteeism and truancy plans.

Jerome is a retired attendance officer from a school district in Texas, has been a licensed social worker for over 20 years, has a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice, is a Certified Domestic Violence Counselor, and is certified in family and truancy mediation. This book contains detailed information and best practices for preparing traditional, alternative, and charter schools to identify truant students promptly. The training guide will improve attendance rates, decrease student dropout, improve staff skills and increase the number of students graduating.

Jerome recognized the need for more structured training; therefore, he helped create certification training hours for current and new attendance officers, ensuring the skills and knowledge needed to do the job. He also developed training for attendance and data personnel, ensuring that students referred for truancy intervention were appropriate.

For your school district truancy and student absenteeism training needs, please get in touch with Jerome at jthompson@interventionacademy.com.

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4.1 out of 5 stars
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  • Jerome Thompson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very detailed.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023
    Format: Paperback
    The book covered every area of truancy intervention and prevention.
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  • DT
    4.0 out of 5 stars Boldly insightful
    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2021
    Format: Kindle
    The book is comprehensive. It was very insightful and extremely valuable for a truancy program interested in improving program outcomes.
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  • Ann Bailey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for any school system!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2021
    Format: Kindle
    I have know Jerome Thompson for over a decade. He is smart, consistent, and extremely focused on any goal he may have. In the writing of this book, Jerome has stepped even further into brilliance. Any school system that has issues with absenteeism and truancy MUST have this guide. The ideas that Jerome has for overcoming the national epidemic of school attendance are revoluntary. I would suggest any school system that is wringing its hands in dismay over the amount of absenteeism and truancy it is dealing with, buy this book!
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  • Jeremy H.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for schools struggling with truant students
    Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2021
    Format: Paperback
    I really appreciate the detailed plan of attack that Mr. Thompson offers his readers. Those school absences harm students who are missing class and diminish the schools that are working so hard to educate those students. The way that many states fund their schools is counterproductive, and excessive student absences in those states hurt the whole system. It's up to professionals like Mr. Thompson to ensure that our schools don't have to deal with even more challenges than they already face. Kudos to him for sharing that knowledge in such a clear, straightforward way!
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