Schools throughout the nation have started the new school year and educators throughout the country are continuing their focus on increasing school attendance. A recent study found that students who are chronically absent in any year between eighth and 12th grade, are more than seven times more likely to drop out, compared to a student with better overall attendance.
Alabama school systems are working to strengthen the important role of parents and local community outreach, in ensuring all students consistently make it to school every day.
September has officially been designated as School Attendance Awareness Month 2022. This year’s theme is “Stay Connected, Keep Learning!” Special emphasis is being placed on building more student engagement, public awareness, and long-term family support for school attendance efforts.
“Addressing student attendance is truly not a solo effort,” said Dr. Kay Atchison Warfield, Alabama State Department of Education Prevention and Support Services
Administrator. “Working together, each of us – teachers, local schools, parents, and supportive residents of our local communities – must ensure a greater focus is placed on school attendance. Every day that a student is not in school, is a day this child misses important opportunities to gain experience, achieve, and grow.”
Barriers in transportation, health issues, poor nutrition, and mental health concerns are leading factors that often impact student attendance. A recent national survey revealed chronic absenteeism has more than doubled from pre-pandemic levels, with an estimated eight million students missing too many school days.
Chronic absences in elementary schools can often lead to lower reading scores. By middle school, it can be a warning sign if a student is on track to fail or eventually drop out of high school.
For this entire month, local school systems statewide have focused their efforts on helping all Alabama students, families, and communities take more impactful action. The goal is to ensure that every student is at school each day and fully achieving academically.
Chronic absenteeism -18 days or more a year (excused and unexcused) truly places students at greater academic risk - https://vimeo.com/240840053
P.A.C.E. Character Skills for 2022-2023
The 2022-2023 P.A.C.E. (Positive Attitudes Change Everything) Character Traits are listed below. As we work to incorporate these skills and traits into all aspects of school culture for students, we ask that you help us at home, too!
1. Respect: esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability.
2. Kindness: of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person.
3: Responsibility: answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management.
4. Honesty: truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness.
5. Compassion: a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
6. Self-control: control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
7. Integrity: adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
8. Gratitude: the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful.
9. Perseverance: steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
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Hewitt-Trussville Middle School Theatre...Auditions for The Lion King, Jr.
Follow the link below for audition information for the HTMS presentation of The Lion King, Jr..
ACT Prep Course: HTHS
The ACT Prep Course returns to Hewitt-Trussville High School for the fall. It will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The prep course location within the school will be determined by the number of students registered and will be posted in GROUP ME and in the HTHS front lobby. Tuesdays will be dedicated to ENGLISH and READING. Thursdays will be dedicated to MATH and SCIENCE. Please note: Dates and times are subject to change. The first session will be in preparation for the October 22, 2022, ACT Test. Deadline for registering and payment: Friday, September 16, 2022. Please email Vanessa Romano for more details.
ACT Test Prep at Trussville Public Library
The Trussville Public Library will be hosting a two-part ACT Prep class on Saturday October 1st from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and October 2nd from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The class will be conducted in person in the library auditorium. Saturday will be an extensive review session and the Sunday will feature a practice test. See more information on this website.
Bookin' It 5K: Trussville Public Library
The Friends of the Trussville Library and the Trussville Public Library are very pleased to announce our first annual BOOKIN' IT 5K Race/Walk coming up this Fall on Saturday, October 15th at 8AM! The race will start and end at the Trussville Public Library and all proceeds from the race will benefit the Friends of the Trussville Library! REGISTER FOR THE RACE THROUGH THIS LINK: https://tinyurl.com/4vyxx27p or through the library's website at www.trussvillelibrary.com