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.

Goal 1:  Based on the data the grade level at BHE that significantly has chronic absence was 4th grade with 20 total students 16.26% (7 severe chronic absence).
In 4th grade, our goal is to reduce the number of students with chronic absenteeism by 10 students (about 8%) for the 2018/19 school year.

Goal 2: Overall chronic absence in 2017/18 was 21.50% (16.77% chronic, 4.7% severe chronic). Our goal is to reduce overall chronic absence by 5% (about 43 students).

Goal 3: In 2017/18, 5th grade had the highest level of students with satisfactory attendance with 42.07% of students attending 92% or more school days. The goal for satisfactory attendance is to increase the percentage of students attending 92% or more in every grade level by the end of 2018/19. 

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

TIER 1 STRATEGIES FOR ATTENDANCE:
A. Monitor Data

• Monitoring attendance-taking procedures will take place weekly by the Attendance Clerk and as requested by administration.
• To engage parents we send out robo calls about the importance of Attendance. We sent out letters on "Attendance Matters" at the beginning of the year to make parents aware of the importance of attendance and students grades.
• At the end of each month, the administrative team will request from the IMT to provide a report for current month's attendance  to monitor improvement and look for trends of absences. 

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

A. Monitor Data
Our school monitors students attendance montly. Administration reviews the non-attendance report from Opti-Spool during leadership meetings and reviews students who are habbitually absent or tardy. Students will be identified, and teachers will be notified which of their students might be at-risk.
• Monthly, administration will identify students that have enough absences to be considered chronically absent.
• Teachers will monitor attendance using Pinnacle and BASIS and consult with support staff for help in redirecting absenteeism behavior.
• Administration, will monitor attendance with the leadership team to help identify students that may have a need for more wrap-around services.

B. Engage Students and Families
• Social Worker, as part of the leadership team and support, will reach out by phone to speak with parents of chronically absent students to identify if any support is needed for the family.
• If needed, parents and student will work with the  School Social Worker to develop a personalized “Student Success Plan for Attendance” to make sure the child doesn’t miss too many days and get back on track with good attendance. There is a correlation between good attendance and good academic performance.
• Staff will help identify any family needs and connect the family with services (food pantry, clothing assistance, literacy programs, transportation).
C. Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
• We will work with students and families to set attendance goals and time frames that are attainable to help improve attendance for at-risk or chronically absent students. • Recognize these students routinely for good and improved attendance.  
D. Provide Personalized Outreach
• Parent-Teacher Conferences with support staff will be scheduled to discuss absences and challenges to identify the barriers we may be able to assist with.
• We send out periodic parent links as reminders of "Attendance Matters".
E. Remove Barriers
• Involve public agencies, community partners, and resources as needed to address barriers identified through parent conferences, communications with family, or other sources.
• Involve the school nurse when necessary to follow-up on medically related absences and train staff to 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

 We Identify students with a history of severe chronic absenteeism (missing more than 20% of a school year). This allows administration and leadership teams to support students as best we can to continuously improve students gaps based on missing important instruction due to absentism.
Attendance data is one brought is  discusses during Collaborative Problem-Solving Team (CPST) and Response-to-Intervention (RtI) if needed due to academics or behavior.

Share data with appropriate agencies and ensure that agencies are using chronic absence as an indicator for assisting families.
We will continue to use District's strategies that have been able to decrease chronic absences and increase satisfactory attendance.

For the students at Tier III, appropriate positive reinforcements are included in their “Attendance Success Plan” to support continued improved attendance.  
Administration uses continued positive and regular contact with the families of students who are chronically absent to build positive relationships.
We consult with the School Social Worker as a resource for helping families with attendance problems.

 Implement agreed upon family intervention plan. Monitor for progress.