The International Network for School Attendance (INSA) promotes school attendance and responds to school attendance problems. We compile, generate, evaluate, and disseminate information, assessment, and intervention strategies.
Stakeholders:
All persons interested in school attendance.
Objectives:
- To ensure all stakeholders have access to current developments in the field.
- To share data from research and best practice.
- To connect and mentor junior researchers and practitioners.
- To convene annually at different locations throughout the world.
- To document deliberations in the field – past, present, and future.
In pursuing this mission:
- We ensure INSA activities are guided by stakeholder input (students, families, schools, communities, practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, representatives of cultural and indigenous groups).
- We encourage multidisciplinary, rigorous research and practice that emphasize individual, family, school, community, and cultural factors associated with school attendance and absence.
- We develop and test conceptual models to advance understanding of school attendance and absence.
- We develop and test assessment methods as well as prevention and treatment interventions.
- We foster international collaboration to enhance attention to cultural factors and achieve consistency in conceptualizing, classifying, and communicating about attendance problems.
- We facilitate translation of materials.
