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.

Our attendance plan is to decrease the number of students that have missed 20 percent or more of school days from 58 percent to 48 percent by June 2019.

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

Presently, students enrolled at Lanier_James Education Center have a number of absences because of suspensions prior to arriving at Lanier-James.  

When students arrive at Lanier-James they are assigned a mentor that is a member of the support staff.  The mentor will monitor the attendance of their menteees.  In addition, attendance is taken during each period and monitored by classroom teachers. 

Broward County Public School attendance policy is also followed.  If a student has accummulated five days of absences, the principal or designee will determine whether the student has established a pattern of nonattendance. 

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 attendance clerk will monitor attendance school-wide, however, mentors will monitor all absences for the individual mentees.  Classroom teachers will maintain accurate attendance records.  If student absences become excessive, teachers wil lcontact parents to investigatewhy a students is missing from their class and submit a referral to the social worker, Joycelyn Basketville, if necessary.

Every morning students receive a point sheet from their menors to be carried to all classes.  if the student's point sheet is not picked up, this alerts their mentor that the student may not be present in school that day.  The mentor follows-up with a phone call to the parent.  If the mentor observes that a student's absences are becomingexcessive, a referral to the social worker, Ms. Baskerville, is generated.  Ms. Maskerville will call the parents and/or visit the home to determine why the student is absent and to offer services to the families if needed. 

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

The attendance clerk and guidance counselors will monitor chronic absenteeism, however, mentors will monitor chronic absenteeism for their individual mentees.  If the mentor observes that a student is chronically absent, they contact the parents and a referral to the social worker, Ms. Baskerville, is generated.  Ms. Baskerville will call the parents visit the home to determine why the student is not attending school and to offer services to the families if needed.