Goals for the Attendance Plan

1. A school's response for this section should be in SMART format for improving attendance for each category reported in the data tables.
• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Realistic/Rewarding
• Timely
2. Address early grades at your school level (K & 1, 6th Grade, 9th Grade). Analyze school-wide data to determine needs at grade levels and times of year when challenges occur more often.

School attendance data are provided reporting percent of students with satisfactory attendance, at-risk attendance, chronic absenteeism, and severe chronic absenteeism. The two-year trend allows for comparison of attendance over time and an indication of how strategies implemented to improve attendance are working.

5 Days- Letter sent home from the Florida Department of Education
7 Days – Grade Level Counselor Contact Parent  (Phone Call)
10 Days- Grade Level Counselor Contact Parent  (Phone Call) and Set Up Parent Conference
15 Days – Grade Level Counselor completes Social Worker Referral Form  (Home Visit by SSW)
20+ Days – Grade Level Counselor contacts Truancy Office
 
The grade level counselors meet Quarterly to review student attendance and serves as the primary point of contact for students who miss school. The team contacts parents when their students begin missing school, meets with parents to discuss student attendance.  The guidance counselors will request that the Social Worker, Mr. Rea, conduct interviews/home visits to identify barriers to regular school attendance, and serves as a resource for other teachers and staff who are dealing with students who fail to attend class regularly.  

Tier 1 Strategies for Attendance

Tier 1 Strategies for Attendance - Address all five core ingredients. Tier 1 is aimed at 100% of students, parents, school staff, and community stakeholders. This is where you cast a wide net. Strategies are general to reach the largest audiences and include all employees and stakeholders.

Tiered plans will include strategies and interventions for the 5 core ingredients.

• Monitor Data
• Engage Students and Families
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
• Provide Personalized Outreach
• Remove Barriers

The objective is to decrease chronic absenteeism at all grade levels to 2 or less students per grade level.

Tier 2 Strategies and Interventions to Improve Attendance

Tier 2 Strategies and Interventions to Improve Attendance - Address all five core ingredients. Tier 2 identifies students using early warning indicators to make connections with students and families at the onset of the school year or emergence of patterns of non-attendance. Early warning indicators include prior year chronic absenteeism, 3 or more absences in the first 4 weeks of enrollment, more than 10% of school days absent in any time period from the beginning of enrollment.

- Tier 2 represents between 10-20% of students at all schools in Broward County. This is true at individual schools and across the District.

- Chronic Absenteeism: Absent for 10% or more school days. These absences include excused, unexcused, and suspensions as days of instruction missed.

Tiered plans will include strategies and interventions for the 5 core ingredients.

• Monitor Data
• Engage Students and Families
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
• Provide Personalized Outreach
• Remove Barriers

The grade level counselors meet Quarterly to review student attendance and serves as the primary point of contact for students who miss school. The team contacts parents when their students begin missing school, meets with parents to discuss student attendance.  The guidance counselors will request that the Social Worker, Mr. Rea, conduct interviews/home visits to identify barriers to regular school attendance, and serveas a resource for other teachers and staff who are dealing with students who fail to attend class regularly.

Tier 3 Interventions

Tier 3 Interventions - Address all five core ingredients. Tier 3 is the highest level of intervention and support for students that are absent 20% or more school days during the year.

- At most schools, Tier 3 interventions are utilized for about 5% (or less) of the student population.

Tiered plans will include strategies and interventions for the 5 core ingredients.

• Monitor Data
• Engage Students and Families
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
• Provide Personalized Outreach
• Remove Barriers

​1. Frequent communication between the teacher and family;
2. Changes in the learning environment;
3. Mentoring;
4. Student counseling;
5. Tutoring, including peer tutoring;
6. Placement into different classes;
7. Evaluation for alternative education programs;
8. Referral to other agencies for family services