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.

Deerfield Park will decrease at-risk, chronic, and severe chronic absenteeism at least by 2% in each grade level during the  2018- 2019 school year.

Note: Our goal is to view a decrease in absenteeism from the first semester to the second semester. Quarterly monitoring will take place by the Attendance Committee.

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

• Greet students and families in the morning drop off
• Teacher records the absence in Pinnacle. 
• Parent receives a call from Parentlink to remind the parent of absence daily.
• Teacher and/or Attendance Committee member will call parent if a child is absent more than 1 day to remind parent of the attendance policy and the requirement to call the school to report child as absent with an excuse. 
• Students who are absent less than four days are recognized in the quartely Honor Roll Assembly
• Students are told the importance of being in school daily via the morning announcements in order to stress the connect to academic readiness and future success.

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

• Attendance Committee meets monthly to review school wide absences and tardies by grade level.
• Parent receives a call from Parentlink to remind the parent of absence daily.
• Students who are absent more than three days receive a call home from Teacher and a Attendance Committee member. In addition, a letter is sent home to inform the parent about the student absence.
• Offer Before and Aftercare programs
• School social worker meets with the parent to create an attendance contract with the family and to provide needed services and resources. 
• School nurse and school counselor will follow-up on medical related absences

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

• Attendance Committee meets monthly to review school wide absences and tardies by grade level with a targeted focus on identifying students that have a history of missing 10% or more days of school
• Review attendance daily and ensure that Tier 3 students are in school every day, a Attendance Committee member will be in contact with the family for close monitoring.
• Share data with appropriate agencies to coordinate services.
• Students who have more than five days the School Social Worker will be notified and work with the families to avoid legal consequences.
• Implement and monitor agreed upon attendance plan in partnership with School Social Worker and Attendance Committee
• Connect students with chronic physical and mental health issues to medical providers