School Attendance

Resources for Educators

  1. Safe and Caring Schools: A Policy Directive and Action Plan to Enhance Student Presence and Engagement

    Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Safe and Caring Schools: A Policy Directive and Action Plan to Enhance Student Presence and Engagement

    This policy directive and related action plan have been created to provide provincial guidance to build upon the work of school divisions, school leaders, educators, and other partners. This policy directive is also designed to identify and address absenteeism before it becomes a problem.

  2. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Standards for Appropriate Educational Programming in Manitoba Adobe PDF Document

    This document provides direction and will assist schools, school divisions, and funded independent schools in implementing appropriate educational programming.

  3. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Safe and Caring Schools: Taking Action Against Bullying

    This policy provides direction to schools on how to prevent and respond to bullying and other inappropriate behaviours. This includes teaching students how to be safe, respectful, and responsible both in-person and online.

  4. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Safe and Caring Schools: A Whole-School Approach to Planning for Safety and Belonging

    This policy is based on current research and evidence-based practice in planning for and sustaining positive, healthy, and safe schools.

  5. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Safe and Caring Schools: A Policy Directive Enhancing Proactive Supports to Minimize the Use of Seclusion

    This document provides guidelines that will inform school divisions in the development of policies and procedures on the use of seclusion as a safety response when a student poses an immediate risk of serious physical harm to self or others.

  6. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Safe and Caring Schools: A Resource for Equity and Inclusion in Manitoba Schools (MB MYGSA)

    This document is a valuable tool to create more equitable and inclusive schools, especially with respect to diversity of sexuality and gender identity and expression.

  7. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Students in Manitoba Schools

    This document is a resource and tool for Manitoba school divisions and schools to develop their own policies, protocols, and/or guidelines related to supporting transgender and gender diverse students.

  8. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. Responding to Religious Diversity in Manitoba's Schools: A Guide for Educators (2018)

    This is a resource for educators and schools seeking to respond to the needs of their religiously diverse students and community. The document provides a guide for welcoming religious diversity and providing accommodations in Manitoba schools

  9. Alberta Education. Student Engagement and Attendance

    This document incorporates best practices when tackling attendance issues and student engagement in your school along with examples of good models.

  10. Attendance Works

    Attendance Works is a United States national and state initiative that promotes better policy and practice around school attendance. They promote tracking chronic absence data for each student beginning in kindergarten, or ideally earlier, and partnering with families and community agencies to intervene when poor attendance is a problem for students or schools.

  11. National Dropout Prevention Center - Provides ideas on school/community collaboration

  12. National Center for Student Engagement - Provides a wide-range of information to improve engagement and attendance.

  13. Rita Pierson. (May 3, 2013). Every Child Needs a Champion. TED Talk - Rita F. Pierson is a professional educator that talks about getting to know your students, showing them how much they matter, and supporting them in their growth.