Mission

Mission

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.

Our stakeholders are all persons interested in school attendance.

Our
OBJECTIVES

ACCESS

To ensure all stakeholders have access to current developments in the field.

SHARE

To share data from research and best practice.

CONNECT

To connect and mentor junior researchers and practitioners.

CONVENE

To convene annually at different locations throughout the world.

DOCUMENT

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.