S6E10 - Tackling Chronic Absenteeism by Asking Students What They Need

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Episode Notes

Sofía Tannenhaus talks to Julie Smith, co-founder of Community Design Partners, and Casey Chiofolo, an Assistant Principal at Respect Academy, an Alternative High School in Denver, about how Respect Academy dramatically improved first period attendance by talking to kids about what they wanted from school, and what was keeping them from getting there on time.

Community Design Partners’ library of Student-Powered Improvement resources

• In his work, Casey drew particularly on this guide: Building Student-Powered Classrooms

Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, “What Improvers Can Learn from Civil Rights Organizers”

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