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.

By June 2019, the percentage of students with chronic absenteeism will decrease by 2% as measured by the attendance indicators onBASIS 3.0.

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 

Tier 1 - Address the strategies that will be implemented throughout the school year to bolster attendance.

Tier 1 strategies are aimed at 100% of students, parents, and community stakeholders. Tier 1 strategies are generally low-cost with most results.

• Attendance Line (phone number) easily accessible on the school website
• Identify the staff member utilized as the Attendance Manager.
• Promote attendance using your school's Twitter account. Follow @BCPS_180 for content designed for Broward Schools.
• During grade-level assemblies, spotlight attendance information for the quarter and reward students for excellent attendance. Provide students with information about the importance of being in class every day (connected to academic readiness and future success).
• Ensure that all teachers are trained to take attendance accurately. Encourage all to take attendance in a timely and accurate manner. (Teacher Attendance Codes: P, PN, AU, TU).
• When teachers make phone calls home, include information about attendance (ex. "thank you for getting her to school on time every day"; "she was absent two days last week and we missed her"; "he is on track for perfect attendance this month.")

Refer to the BCPS Attendance Tiered Resources worksheet for more ideas.

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

Pattern of Non-Attendance
(Combinaton of the 4 previews strategies) Patterns of Non-Attendance will be identified as any student missing more than 10% of school during the academic year.
Student will be identified as needing Tier 3 interventions. A 10-day letter will be generated by the District. School Administrators will follow up with a BTIP
meeting at the courthouse with the State Attorney’s Office. Lloyd Estates will hang district provided banners encouraging students to attend school on time on
a regular basis. There will be quarterly incentives provided for students who have demonstrated an improvement attendance by 20%. Lloyd Estates will also
offer training for teachers and staff at least once per quarter during Professional Development regarding the implementation of the Lloyd Estates Annual
Attendance Plan.

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

Chronic Absenteeism
Chronic Absences will be identified of a combination of tardies and non-attendance that totals 10% of missed instruction time in the classroom per quarter.
Chronic Absences will be addressed as the follows:
Referral to CPST Team
Referral to School Social Worker
10-day BTIP meeting with administrator
BTIP process begins
Attendance agreement signed
Monitor student attendance via A17 panel
Parent Conference, staff phone call and/or letter to parent/guardian