
WEBINAR
Increasing Attendance
Featuring Dr. Michael Roth, former superintendent and BTR performance coach
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 3 PM EST
Superintendents and District Leaders,
How can districts implement strategies that actually GET RESULTS in reducing chronic absenteeism?
Join our webinar with Dr. Michael Roth, former superintendent and DMGroup performance coach, as he talks about his detailed work coaching school-based attendance teams to get results fast as they work to increase attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism.
We’ll draw on lessons from DMGroup’s Breakthrough Results Program, and share strategies being used in public school districts across the country to get students back to school.
Our discussion will include how to:
- Narrow down a focus group of students to make the problem manageable
- Develop SMART goals aligned to reducing chronic absenteeism
- Create strong teaming and iterative learning cycles
- Analyze root causes of absenteeism in the district, in order to address them
- Most importantly, GET RESULTS
Who should attend?
Superintendents, Chief Academic Officers, Chief School Support Officers, School Improvement Officers
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About District Management Group
District Management Group (DMG) was founded in 2004 on the belief that management techniques combined with education best practices are key to addressing American public schools' challenges. We partner with school and district leaders nationwide and provide them with the best management and educational practices, tools, and techniques to produce measurable, sustainable improvements that help schools and students thrive.
About Breakthrough Results Program
The Breakthrough Results Program is a comprehensive and proven program for accelerating learning and getting results for students while developing leadership capacity for teachers and staff. District and school-based teams work with a dedicated Breakthrough Results performance coach to accomplish a highly specific SMART goal within a short period of time - usually ten weeks. The program combines focused goals, progress monitoring, rapid action cycles, performance coaching, and targeted professional development to successfully tackle almost any district challenge. Proven, outstanding results for students have been achieved across a variety of focus areas, from raising ELA and math scores to improving attendance.