Analyzing School Non-Attendance Data: Where Do We Go From Here? with Dr. Dennis Lefevre

About this episode

The episode discusses the attendance crisis in schools and features Dr. Dennis Lefevre's insights on new evaluation methods to improve student attendance.

We are back with the second part of our conversation with Dr. Dennis. Our previous episode covered the escalating attendance crisis and how we can address it with new evaluations and data-collection tools. We are excited to dive deeper into this important subject through Dr. Dennis’ expertise and passion. Join us! Dr. Dennis Lefevre recently served as the Executive Director of Student Support Services in a small, high-performing school district in southern CA. Before that role, he worked in various capacities in public, non-public, and private school settings with thousands of preschool, elementary, and secondary students. He had a front-row seat to the unfolding attendance&n…

People in this episode

Host: Inclusive Education Project

Guest: Dr. Dennis Lefevre

Topics covered

• school attendance
• data collection
• educational psychology
• interventions
• student support

Keywords

• attendance crisis
• Behavior Intervention Plan
• Attendance Intervention Plan
• school refusal
• truancy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Back at School

Places: southern CA

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