← All posts in The Science of Showing Up!
JA

Featured researcher

Jessica AndersonM.Ed.

Count ME In Executive Director Maine
Institution
Count ME In
Role
Executive Director
Research focus
School attendance · Maine schools · data-driven positive strategies
Papers featured
1 · latest Oct. 23, 2026

About

Jess Anderson, M.Ed., is Executive Director of Count ME In, which has worked since 2013 to improve attendance in Maine schools through data-driven, positive strategies, reaching more than 120 schools in over 36 districts. An educator with two decades of experience in traditional and alternative education, she holds a Master of Education from Plymouth State University and works directly with Maine districts.

Research focus

School attendanceMaine schoolsdata-driven positive strategiesalternative education

Featured papers

Research by Jessica Anderson

In the order we featured them, newest first.

About The Science of Showing Up!

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.

Suggest a paper

Know a paper the field should be reading — yours or someone else’s? Send us the citation or a link, and a line on why it matters.

Suggest: info@attendanceusa.org