Best Practices / Attendance / Promote Safety & Inclusiveness
Attendance
Promote Safety & Inclusiveness
- Best Practices
- Featured Program Metrics
- Additional Program Metrics
- Organization of Activity
- Activities’ Transition Time
- Staff Positively Guide Behavior
- Youth Relations with Adults
- Youth Relations with Peers
- Space Adequacy
- Overall Socio-Emotional Environment
- Informal Time: General Staff Performance
- Informal Time: Youth Engagement and Behavior
- Youth Feel Challenged
- Supportive Adults Present
- Helps Youth Academically
- Helps Youth Socially
- Social-Emotional Skills
- Measurement
A safe place to learn and play can make the difference between a good day at your summer site and a difficult one.
Include student behavior expectations in orientation materials.
- Check out how MathPOWER at Northeastern University develops behavior code contracts with families and students to promote a safe and orderly environment, which can help boost daily attendance.
Contact information
- Provide contact information to parents for a staff member available for questions, concerns about attendance, behavior, bullying, etc.
Expectations chart
- Create an expectations chart, based on the student behavior expectations created before the program.
- Post the chart in a prominent place at the site and reference it when communicating with students.
