Name: Building a District-Wide Culture of Attendance: Garden Grove's Journey to Sustainable Success
Start: 2025-04-30T08:30:00-0700
End: 2025-04-30T09:45:00-0700

Wednesday April 30, 2025 8:30am - 9:45am PDT

Catalina A3

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With 40,000 students across nearly 70 schools, Garden Grove Unified School District transformed their post-pandemic attendance approach from compliance-focused to a comprehensive cultural shift emphasizing student engagement and family partnership. District leaders will share how they leveraged their MTSS framework to create sustainable attendance improvements, particularly among vulnerable populations. Learn how they aligned attendance initiatives with LCAP goals, integrated equity-focused practices into outreach strategies, and built a scalable system across all grade levels. Discover how their data-driven approach has created lasting improvements in student attendance and engagement.

Speakers

Dr. Jeff Layland

Coordinator of Student Services, Garden Grove Unified School District

Dr. Jeff Layland (He/ His / Him) is the Coordinator of Social Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health with the Garden Grove Unified School District. GGUSD is a TK-12 school district that serves a diverse population of about 37,000 students. He helps to support many of GGUSD's social... Read More →