Attendance workflows break down quietly. Data sits in the SIS. Outreach gets batched, delayed, or skipped. By the time a student's absences are on someone's radar, the pattern is already established. This session is about closing that gap earlier.

We'll talk through what is driving absence trends, what research says about the timing of intervention, and why intervening early matters.

We'll also share a case study with an independent school in Florida. Their highly personalized weekly attendance outreach was producing really promising results, reducing chronic absenteeism by 90%, but taking 10+ hours of staff time each week. Together, we built a solution leveraging the strong integration between Blackbaud and August Schools. Automated two-way SMS outreach with families, structured absence capture, and escalation routing to the right staff member. We'll walk through the problem, what we built, and what changed.

The session closes with a product walkthrough and Q&A.