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CAS Annual Conference 2025
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Tackling Chronic Absence and Accelerating Attendance Gains through Systems & Structures LIMITED
Thursday March 27, 2025 12:20pm - 1:35pm PDT
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Are you addressing chronic absence with a cohesive, all-hands-on-deck approach? This workshop focuses on building a district-wide attendance team with all voices at the table, ensuring school attendance teams meet with fidelity, and breaking down silos to avoid duplicating efforts. Participants will reflect on creating a culture that prioritizes attendance and engagement, shifting mindsets, improving systems and structures, and implementing smarter, more effective practices. Through collaborative discussions, problem-solving, and shared insights, attendees will leave equipped with powerful agenda templates and actionable strategies including reflection activities, incentives, and high impact tiered interventions using a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). Participants will learn about one such high impact intervention – CSDE’s relational home visit model, the Learner Engagement & Attendance Program (LEAP), proven to lead to a 15 percentage point increase in attendance for students who received a LEAP home visit. 
Speakers
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Caroline Calhoun

Professional Learning & Attendance Specialist and LEAP Coordinator, EdAdvance
Caroline C. Calhoun has 20 years of public school teaching experience in upper elementary and middle school, focusing on Humanities–integrated Language Arts and Social Studies. She currently works for EdAdvance, one of Connecticut’s six RESCs, as a Professional Learning and Attendance... Read More →
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Kari Sullivan Custer

Lead Attendance Consultant & LEAP Grant Manager, CSDE
Kari Sullivan Custer serves as the Attendance Lead at the Connecticut State Department of Education. Her work involves coordination across agency divisions and with other state agencies and community providers to reduce non-academic barriers to student attendance. As part of this... Read More →
Thursday March 27, 2025 12:20pm - 1:35pm PDT
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