Sarah Frazelle

Sarah Frazelle is the co-director of the National Student Attendance and Engagement Center (SEAC) and a senior researcher at AIR focusing on projects related to attendance and engagement. In her role at SEAC, she leads the AIR team in developing tools to help reduce chronic absenteeism through root cause analysis and creating technical assistance that highlights data-driven cycles of inquiry. 

Frazelle also helps build the capacity of state education agencies (SEAs) to address chronic absenteeism through a systems approach. She has supported SEA teams in OR, MT, WA, CO, IA, and UT and multiple district teams across OR, MT, WA, AK, GA, and OK. She serves as a national thought leader on attendance, engagement, and student support systems as an attendance subject matter expert for REL West, advisory board member for Oregon Department of Education’s Early Indicator & Intervention System, invited national presenter, and author of multiple publications. 

Previously, Frazelle held positions as the director of MTSS and Early Warning Indicator Systems at Puget Sound Educational Service District and as a senior researcher at Education Northwest.