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Dr. Carolyn Gentle-GenittyPh.D., MSW
None of us are expert, but we learn more from each other. I choose joy every single day in this work.
— Dr. Carolyn Gentle-GenittyAbout
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty is the founder and CEO of Attendance USA, the home of Attendance Science™, and the developer of the Perception of School Social Bonding (PSSB) instrument, listed in APA PsycTests and validated with 3,507 students. A co-founder of the International Network for School Attendance and past president of the International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention, which named her its 2026 Person of the Year, she studies what makes people show up and how systems can make showing up possible.
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The Science of Showing Up! is the Attendance USA™ blog series on the research that is building the field of Attendance Science™. Each post summarizes what a paper found, draws out the key takeaways, and adds an Attendance Science™ lens on what it means for practice and policy — with a link to the original work and to the researcher behind it.
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