"Be Here Get There"

The Be Here Get There campaign aims to make schools engaging and attractive to students by rewarding positive behavior.

Seattle Attendance Campaign "Be Here, Get There" is a research-driven, incentive-based campaign designed to increase academic achievement through the improvement of citywide school attendance. The campaign also makes use of healthy competitions at the school and classroom level to get students energized to go to school. Although it is just one piece of the larger puzzle to address chronic absente

09/18/2013

Welcome to Michele Ramirez at the YMCA. Michele will be visiting schools soon with posters to kick off the year.

09/06/2013

Welcome back to school! We'll be headed out to schools soon to kick off the 2013-2014 Be Here Get There Attendance Campaign.

07/31/2013

Eighty-two percent of participating schools surveyed felt that the Be Here Get There Attendance Campaign helped improve classroom attendance.

07/24/2013

Montlake Elementary School found that the Be Here Get There Attendance Campaign helped them build relationships throughout the whole school.

Montlake Elementary - Husky parking/start of school info Montlake Elementary : Website

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07/22/2013

Pagliacci Pizza just told us that a Lowell Elementary School class that won pizza for improving their attendance took a walking field trip as a class to get pizza for lunch.

Congratulations to Lowell Elementary for working so hard on attendance this year, and thank you to Pagliacci for supporting the campaign.

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06/25/2013

Great interview with Macklemore and Youth Ambassadors about their work this year on attendance.

Patrick Winston's YA video Final.m4v Shared with Dropbox

06/24/2013

Here's a great post on Be Here Get There Attendance Campaign Partner the Youth Ambassadors' work at Cleveland High School this year.

WSOHP Project Blog By Lori Markowitz, Executive Director, Youth Ambassadors . Seattle’s Cleveland High School is experimenting with new approaches to truancy and dropout prevention, banking on the power of peer...

06/18/2013

Thank you to Fire Engine Company 34 for your help scooping Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream at Madrona k-8. Great job Madrona k-8 improving your attendance this year.

06/17/2013

Congratulations to Madison Middle School for their hard work on improving attendance this year. And thank you to Molly Moons and the Seattle Fire Department for an ice cream party to celebrate.