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Schoolwide Attendance Plan |
School Name |
Sheridan Technical College and High School (1051) |
School Year |
2018 - 2019 |
Data for 2017 - 2018 (Last year)
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Population |
Chronic Absenteeism
(10% or More Days) |
Excessive Absences
(21 Days or More) |
Grade Level |
Total Number |
Number |
% |
Number |
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Purpose of Plan
Describe where the school is currently, using quantitative data. Include other data if needed, cite the source of the data, (e.g. Data Warehouse)
Describe where the school wants to be (use precise data points), be specific and simply state what you plan to do, using the SMART guidelines in writing your goal statement.
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable/Achievable
- Results-focused, and
- Time-bound.
Strategies To Be Implemented
Describe each strategy and include benchmarks/data points per quarter.
2: Goals for the Attendance Plan
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Goals for the Attendance Plan
- 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
- 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. | Attendance Category | Percent of days missed | Levels of strategies and Interventions |
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| Satisfactory Attendance | 0 - 4.99 | Tier 1 | At-Risk Attendance | 5.0 - 9.99 | Tier 1 and 2 | Chronic Absenteeism | 10.0 - 19.99 | Tier 1, 2, and 3 | Severe Chronic Absenteeism | 20.0% or higher | Tier 1, 2, and 3 |
Attendance is paramount to our student's success, socially, emotionally, and academically. Sheridan Technical High School has created a systematic approach to address our attendance needs. As a full-time magnet program, we share this information regularly with our parents and students. We start with our freshmen orientation, continue at our magnet open house, and then again at our back to-school-night. Our policies are shared in our Student Handbook which is distributed to all students, signed by both students and parents, and it is posted in D2L. Our policy defines non-attendance as an accumulation of tardiness, early sign-outs, and excused or unexcused absences for all or part of the day. If a student is absent more than 5 days in a term, interventions go into effect which include parent calls, attendance contract, referral to our RtI team, and possibly a referral to a Social Worker. If a student repeatedly violates Broward School’s Code of Conduct as related to attendance and excessive tardiness, the student may be assigned to his/her home high school.
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2: Tier 1 Strategies for Attendance
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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
Sheridan Technica High Schools Data Dashboard indicates that 48% of our students attend class on a daily.; 29% are at risk; 18% are chronically absent; while 4% are severly chronic. As such, we would like to maintian and/or improve this by 1% or more by the end of the 2018-2019 school year. We employ several different strategies to maintian and/or improve attendance for all students, including the 100 students who are chronically absent.
- Review Data Dashboard information from Student Assessment Services monthly
- Monitor Attendance using Datawhare House and the Focus Gradebook
- Student Appreciation Days - Quarterly 4 events per year
- Attendance Count Campaigns
- Parent Conferences for all students with 5 or more absences
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2: Tier 2 Strategies and Interventions to Improve Attendance
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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
Student attendance is extremely important and can directly impact student achievment. The purpose of this is to develop a mutally agreed upon plan to assure regualr school attendance.The plan involves faculty and staff as well as administration. Communication with students and parents is required to make this plan successful. Therefore it is imperative that students are in class and learning. We would like to:
- Reduce the number of students arriving late for class
- Increase daily average attendance(1%) by reducing accessive and chrnoic absenteeism and habitual truancy
- Reduce the number of unexcused absences
- Reduce the number of excessive early sign outs
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2: Tier 3 Interventions
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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
Strategies to be implemented to reduce the number of unexcused absences are:
- Parent contact from the teacher and administration
- Stakeholders will be informed about policies relating to attendance as published in the District Code of Conduct and STHS student Handbook
- Conferencing with truant student and their parents/guardians
- Following the district policy and procedures
- referral to social worker through rti
- monitor data progress (district)
Students who have excessive excused absences will:
- be address thorugh district policy and procedure
- have an open lines of communication with student and school (parents as needed)
- referral to school social worker/guidance
- conference with truant student and their parents/guardians
To reduce the amount of tardiness faculty and staff will:
- increase communication with student, parent, and school
- provice incentives for coming to school on time
- address tardies through code of conduct
- parent conferences (late drop offs)
- reduce by 1%
To reduce the amount of excessive early sign out faculty and staff will:
- conference with parent/guardian
- review policy from student handbook and code of conduct
- notify parents and student when more than 5 sign outs occur in a period of 60 days
For students with a pattern of non-attendance:
- Sharing and reviewing school policy on attendance and student responsibilities with students and families
- contacting and notifying the student's parent/guardian upon their absence
- meeting individually with students to discuss reason(s) for the pattern of absence (i.e. every Monday and Friday)
- follow up with administration
- Refer to social worker/guidance
For students with chronic absenteeism:
- call system to be used daily to call students' homes to report absence
- Teacher contact with parent/guardian
- notified letter to parents
- referal to guidance/administration to conference with student to determine the cause of truancy
- Documentation of conferences with students and their parents/guardians, and attempts to provide assistance and or remediation to resolve attendance issues at the school level
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