Filed under: Ed Technology, Student Attendance, Student Engagement, The Portland Project by Karl Meinhardt

“Texting Paid Off!” is the subject of the email I just received from George Middle School (GMS) Principal Beth Madison. Beth and her staff hired me late last year to help them design and implement a social networking /social media strategy in her 93% free and reduced, Title I school in Portland, Oregon . One [...]

Filed under: Student Attendance, Student Engagement by Liz Delmatoff

One of the biggest challenges that middle schools face is poor attendance. Federal, State and County laws require children to attend school, No Child Left Behind dings schools with high truancy rates and research shows that children who do not attend regularly in middle school are at risk of dropping out of high school. Getting chronically [...]