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.

To improve school wide attendance by having a 2% decrease in tardies, 2 % decrease in students who miss 5 – 9 days of school and a 25% decrease in students who miss 10 or more days of school for the 3^rd and 4^th Quarter.
 

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

Unexcused Absences: Unexcused absences will be reduced by continual communication at school-wide assemblies to inform students and parents about the effects of unexcused absences and the relation to academic performance.  In addition to school-wide assemblies the same message willbe communicated through parent engagement events taking place before or afer school such as SAC meetings, STEM, Science Technology Engineering and Math Nights, and 21st Century Learning parent meetings.  Students will be rewarded with Certificates of Perfect Attendance through qaurterly assemblies.  The school-based Social Worker will work with the Community Liaison to promote the message of "Attendance All Day, Every Day" to parents and students in order to decrease chronic absenteeism.

Excused Absences: Five or more in a single month and excessive absences will be reduced by offering student incentives such as field days and certificates.  The students will have the opportunity to meet with the school Social Worker and Guidance Counselor in order to discuss and learn ways to improve attendance and academic 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

At Broward Estates Elementary School for students with at-risk attendance and a history of chronic absenteeism, our Teachers, Guidance Counselor, Administration, School Social Worker and Community Liaison all work collaboratively to discuss attendence data to make informed decisions geared at personlaizing the students' interventions based on a case-by-case analysis. 

Below is an example of the strategies the Team implements in order to remove barriers to the students' success in the area of attendance:
1. Root Cause Analysis
2. Address barriers of Chronic Absenteeism
3. Provide Resources including referrals
4. Monitor Progress
5. Revisit Case Load

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

At Broward Estates Elementary School students with severe absenteeism 20% or more missed days are part of the B-Tip Program.  As a Tier 3 intervention, Broward Estates utilizes outside resources (additional agencies) in addition to the school's guidance counselor and school social worker.