In partnership with the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC), the Mississippi Department of Education will host 12 regional Attendance Improvement Institutes through April 2024.
Each two-day institute will guide district-level teams in building locally appropriate, research-based, and foundational attendance improvement plans that have a high probability of significantly improving attendance rates at the local level.
Additionally, the institute prepares district-level teams to replicate the attendance improvement planning process with school-site teams to provide necessary professional development to school-site teams, and to guide and sustain school-level initiatives.
Each Mississippi public school district is asked to bring a team of six consisting of the following leaders:
- Superintendent or superintendent’s designee
- Attendance clerk
- Parent liaison (or the like)
- Grade K-5 principal
- Grade 6-12 principal
Please see the attached announcement Attendance Improvement Institutes 2024 and select the location of your choice to register. Space is limited; CEUs and SEMIs will be available.