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This technical appendix provides more detail about the methods and analytic approach outlined in the step-by-step guide.

Proving Ground built a series of guides designed to share lessons learned through successful interventions piloted by its member districts to decrease chronic absenteeism. This is a step-by-step guide for districts who are interested in implementing a

This randomized trial evaluates the effectiveness of sending teacherwritten postcards home to reduce absences.
 

A resource that can be used to get to know your students, particularly in the case of designing student interventions.

View the best practices for using strategic automated messaging to communicate from a distance.

This study shows that sustaining a content literacy intervention from first to second grade improves reading comprehension by building knowledge schemas that enable students to transfer learning to new, content-rich texts.

This study shows that a short, first-grade content literacy intervention can significantly strengthen science knowledge and reading comprehension without harming foundational literacy skills or engagement.

This study shows that sustained content literacy instruction improves second-grade reading comprehension primarily by building interconnected networks of domain-specific vocabulary over time.

This large-scale replication study confirms that the MORE content literacy intervention substantially improves elementary students’ science and social studies vocabulary and argumentative writing, with vocabulary growth serving as a key mechanism for