Protective factors are those things that mitigate concerns regarding student attendance and help promote coming to school. It starts with identifying the protective factors with which parents are most engaged. Here are a few:
4:03 Parents may not know how to do this so educate and inform.
5:35 Parents have varieties of priorities to consider for their children.
10:38 Provide messaging to support parents in their parenting
11:15 Promote family and parenting workshops that are of interest to the families.
12:13 Principals are leaders in facilitating the conversations that include protective factors.
Find out more about how to use restorative practices to build protective factors with parents.
Here’s the Checklist of Attendance Protective and Risk Factors.
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