Collective Impact -- This is a Complex, Community-wide Responsibility.
Okay, but now what? If Chronic Absenteeism among kindergarteners matters so much, what can we do?
The data certainly argues that mitigating poverty would dramatically improve attendance. But that's a daunting challenge, to say the least. However, addressing specific obstacles to attendance would more easily yield to solutions. Indeed, a collection of well-executed solutions to problems might actually help to mitigate poverty, in the long run.
Thus, Chronic Absenteeism calls for a Collective Impact strategy, whose characteristics include:
- A common agenda -- Reduce Chronic Absenteeism
- Shared Measurement Systems -- The HUB!
- Mutually-reinforcing activities -- Some proposals on the next slides
- Continuous Communication -- TBD
- Backbone Support Organizations -- The Stakeholders
