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.

The purpose of the plan is to create a multi-tiered support system of interventions to reinforce positive choices and teach replacement behaviors for negative choices made by students.  Our goal is to decrease chronic absenteeism by 1 percent.
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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 school guidance counselors, teachers, attendance clerk will monitor absences.  The team will communicate with parents to express concerns and offer assistance as expressed by students, teachers and family.

* data collected from Basis 3.0
* teachers will monitor Pinnacle and report continuous patterns of absences to guidance department
* guidance will monitor student academic and personal needs and provide services as needed (i.e. issue attendance contract)
* Response to Intervention (RTI) referral established as needed
* students who earn perfect attendance are honored at end of year awards programs

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 school guidance counselors, teachers, and attendance clerk will monitor absences.  The team will communicate with parents to express concerns and offer assistance as expressed by students, teachers and family.

* data collected from Basis 3.0
* teachers will monitor Pinnacle and report continuous patterns of absences to guidance department
​* guidance will monitor student academic and personal needs and provi

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

• Teachers will monitor students attendance and refer students to Response to Intervention(RtI) as patterns of chronic absenteesim are identified,
• District procedures/expectations will be followed accordingly. This may include contact via phone, home visits and conferencs. 
• We will monitor the data to identify students missing 20% or more of school
• We will monitor the data and then refer students and families to the Social Worker or other appropriate agencies
• We will provide positive incentives for attendance imporvements