Breaking the Cycle: Exploring the Educational Impact

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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1 in 3 students are chronically absent from school.* One surprising reason? A lack of access to clean clothes. We teamed up with Whirlpool to explore this hidden educational crisis. For the final episode in our three-part series, our host, psychologist and parent educator Dr. Jazmine McCoy, will cover: how chronic absenteeism impacts a student’s educational growth; the two factors that can determine a child’s success rate – and the most critical grade level to catch regression; how chronic absenteeism affects school funding; and the success of Whirlpool’s Care CountsTM program. In this episode you’ll hear from: Dr. Richard Rende, a developmental science psychologist and researcher; Damon Carraby, the director of national corporate partnerships at Teach For America; McKenzie Roney, the managing director of national corporate partnerships at Teach For America; and Nelly Martinez, senior brand leader at Whirlpool. Sources: *Based on “Monitoring Data Matters Even More: A Review of State Attendance Data Policy and Practice in School Year 2022-23,” updated June 2023. Damon Carraby, [9:45-9:53], based on Care Counts™ program metrics consider only 2022–2023 school year results according to Impact YOY data This miniseries was Skimm’d by Dr. Jazmine McCoy, along with our producers Monica Perry and Lizzy Bryce, and scriptwriter Sarah Title. This episode was created in partnership with Ginni Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This series is brought to you by Whirlpool, a brand that's been committed to help in the cycle of chronic absenteeism in schools for nearly a decade.
0:08.0	When I think back to when I taught fifth grade, literacy,
0:12.6	little 10 and 11 year olds, they were my favorite age.
0:15.4	There was one student I had.
0:17.4	I really think back to the moment
0:19.0	when he shared just like how defeated he was
0:22.0	because the days he was in class, he wasn't able to follow along.
0:25.8	So he felt even further behind because not only are we spending a lot of time before, after school, or at lunch trying to catch him up, but then he couldn't
0:36.0	participate or learn at the same speed as everybody else because it still wasn't making sense to him.
0:42.7	So that compounds and then creates a larger issue.
0:46.5	And it still makes me emotional thinking back
0:48.6	to the conversation I had with him years ago,
0:51.2	thinking about a 10-year- old already feeling defeated in school.
0:54.4	Fifth grade is very young in their school trajectory and so when I think about
1:00.2	the problems of chronic absenteeism, I think about him.
1:03.0	Welcome back to Breaking the Cycle, a special three-part series where we're exploring the complex
1:09.0	issue of chronic absenteeism in schools.
1:12.0	I'm your host, clinical psychologist and parent educator
1:15.2	Dr. Jasmine McCoy, and for our final episode we're talking about the lasting
1:20.4	impact chronic absenteeism can have on a student's educational path and how the
1:25.8	Whirlpool Care Count's laundry program is helping to get kids back in the classroom.
1:30.3	In one of my roles as a psychologist, I led weekly group therapy sessions for third and fourth graders.
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