- PMD: 6,9
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Introduction
- Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- understand the definition and correlates of school safety,
- understand the definition and impacts of chronic absenteeism, and
- develop strategies to address chronic absenteeism through improving school climate.
Description
Each one-point decrease in students' ratings of school safety is linked with a 1.86-fold increase in students' likelihood of being chronically absent. School climate interventions can improve chronic absenteeism.
Presenter(s)
Courtney N. Baker, Tulane University
Julianne R. Berte, Tulane University
Contributor(s)
Stacy Overstreet
