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Greetings!
New Resource!
Every Student Present website
September is Attendance Awareness Month
Every Student Present sheds light on the issue of chronic absence by describing what it is, explaining how it impacts students and highlighting approaches that schools, families and communities can use to reduce chronic absence.
When students miss too many days of school they also miss instruction and fall behind in school. Each year, approximately one in ten students miss 10% or more school days. In some cases, kindergarten and first grade, as many as 4 in 10 students will miss about a month of school, jeopardizing their academic foundation and future success.
The Council on Children and Families has partnered with Attendance Works, Children's Aid Society, Erie I BOCES, New York Afterschool Network, State University of New York, United Way of New York City and the State Education Department to create a resource center for lessons learned and best practices that schools, families and communities can use to reduce chronic absence. Take a moment to check out the website today!
www.everystudentpresent.org
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Community Schools RFP due 9/18
Grant Proposals are due next Monday

The Community Schools initiative proposed by Governor Cuomo in his 2013 State of the State agenda and 2013-14 Executive Budget builds on the evidence of promising practices from successful community schools across the state and nation. This program reflects the recommendations of the New NY Education Reform Commission and is consistent with the New York State Board of Regents' advocacy for establishing programs for students and families that provide academic enrichment activities along with a broad array of student and family development opportunities within their communities.
Fundamentally, Community Schools coordinate and maximize public, non-profit and private resources to deliver critical services to students and their families, thereby increasing student achievement and generating other positive outcomes.
The NYS Council on Children & Families, in coordination with the NY State Education Department, has developed the following Program Overview and Grant Implementation Plan to describe how New York State's Community Schools initiative will be implemented.
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Look for 2012 data on KWIC
Did you know that the KWIC data indicators are updated annually by state agency staff?
Yes, the KWIC data indicators are updated annually by our state agency partners. KWIC provides indicators to help measure progress towards meeting the Touchstones vision.
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Join CCF on Social Media Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook!
The Council on Children and Families (CCF) has embarked on a social media presence. The ever changing field of technology has opened up new frontiers that allow us to share the stories of children and families in New York.
Here are the Council social media links:
Please let us know if your agency has joined the social media frontier, message CCF and let us know what you're doing!
The KWIC website has incorporated social media sharing features for indicator data and custom graphs. We are interested in your feedback and participation in the
social media frontier.
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Have you Missed a KWIC webinar? Don't worry, we've recorded them!
The Webinar tab on the KWIC Learn More page has a series of training videos and recorded webinars intended to help our users learn how to utilize all of the features on KWIC. Also learn about KWIC Views and how to print the charts and graphs you create in KWIC.
If you have a question or require additional assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. There are also short video tutorials describing many of the KWIC features on the Learn More page. |
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