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Focusing on presence, not absence – flipping the script on attendance

Focusing on presence, not absence – flipping the script on attendance

Update: 2025-09-24
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In today’s episode, Dominique Russell is joined by Chantel Barnes. She’s Principal at Glenora District School in the rural town of Glenora outside Hobart, Tasmania. It’s a small K-12 school, and they’ve made some incredible progress on attendance in the past 12 months. Chantel tells us about how they’ve achieved this, the initiatives that are making a difference in their setting, and her advice for other schools out there.
Host: Dominique Russell
Guest: Chantel Barnes
Sponsor: Monash University
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Focusing on presence, not absence – flipping the script on attendance

Focusing on presence, not absence – flipping the script on attendance

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