Practical Attendance

Strategies Delivered Straight to Your Inbox

Sign up to receive proven strategies to increase afterschool attendance, engagement, and retention -- without guessing or reinventing the wheel.

Afterschool programs succeed or struggle based on how well students are recruited, supported, and engaged day-to-day.

This short email series shares evidence-based, field-tested strategies that high-performing OST programs use to:

  • increase student attendance

  • strengthen staff accountability

  • align programming to what students actually want and need

  • build sustainable participation across school buildings

This email series is designed for anyone responsible for improving afterschool attendance — including site coordinators, program directors, central office teams, nonprofit leaders, and school-based staff.

Sign up for the e-mail series!

You’ll receive a short sequence of practical emails, each focused on one field-tested strategy you can apply immediately in your program or building.

No downloads. No sales pitch. Just practical strategies you can use right away..

Who This E-mail Series Is Designed For

This email series is designed for anyone responsible for improving afterschool or out-of-school-time (OST) attendance, including:

  • OST site coordinators and program managers

  • Afterschool and OST program directors

  • District or central office OST administrators

  • Nonprofit and community-based OST leaders

  • School-based staff supporting or overseeing afterschool programs

  • Building administrators responsible for OST implementation

Whether you oversee a single site or multiple school buildings, this series is designed to support leaders who are accountable for recruitment, attendance, and sustained student participation in afterschool programs.

What you will learn:

Each email focuses on one actionable strategy that can be implemented immediately, without requiring new systems or large budgets.

Topics include how to:

  • How to build effective recruitment practices that do not rely on flyers or announcements

  • Clarifying staff accountability for recruitment and attendance

  • Strengthening coordination between OST staff and school-day leadership

  • Designing programming that students actually want to attend

  • Using visibility and relationships to increase daily participation

  • Preventing attendance drop-off by addressing barriers early and discreetly

  • Applying incentives responsibly and in alignment with funding requirements

  • Leveraging existing school activities, clubs, and interests to boost attendance

  • Using passion-based clubs and enrichment to engage older students

  • Creating systems that support consistent attendance across multiple buildings

Each email delivers one clear idea at a time, allowing you to focus, apply, and build sustainable attendance practices without feeling overwhelmed

What This Series Is — and Isn’t

This Series IS:

  • Practical and administrator-focused

  • Grounded in OST operations and funding realities

  • Written for people managing real attendance pressures

  • Applicable across elementary, middle, and high school OST

This Series IS NOT:

  • A curriculum

  • A compliance checklist

  • One-size-fits-all advice

    You decide what fits your program.

How the Series is Delivered:

  • Short, readable emails

  • One focused strategy per message

  • Delivered every few days

  • Written for quick application and discussion with your team

Each email can be read in under five minutes and applied immediately.

If improving recruitment, attendance, and staff accountability is a priority this year, this series will help you move from ideas to action — quickly and realistically.

This email series is informational and designed to support OST program planning and implementation. All strategies should be applied in alignment with local context, policies, and funding requirements.

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