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.

In 2017-18  the percentage of students with chronic absenteeism was at 9% at Pembroke Pines Elementary.  By June 2019, Pembroke Pines Elementary will decrease our percentage of students with chronic absenteeism to 8% (decrease of 1%).
- Quarter 1 - send letters home to students missing 5 or more days
- Quarter 2 - meet with parents of students missing 10 or more days
- Quarter 3 - hold RTI meeting with parent and CPST team and have parent sign attendance contract and provide services
- Quarter 4 - refer these parents to SSW or BTIP, if no improvement

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

We send out Parentlink messages reminding parents about the District's Attendance initiative and goal - Every Student, Every Day.  We send letters, make phone calls or schedule meetings with parents regarding their child's attendance patterns.  Our school's attendance policy is printed in our montly newsletter (Pirate Gram).  We also celebrate students for Perfect Attendance each quarter.

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

After 5 or more unexcused absences, administration holds a conference with parent.  If parents can bring evidence for an "excused" absence, the absence will be revised from unexcused to excused. After 5 or more excused absences, Administration and School Social Worker schedules a conference with the parent to sign an attendance agreement. 

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

When students have 10 or more absences, tardies, and/or early outs, administration contacts these parents for an RTI meeting with the CPST team.  The team may recommend assistance from the SSW, counselors, other community services, etc.  If students are on a "reassignment", their reassignment may also be revoked and the parent will need to register their child at his/her home school.  A BTIP meeting will also be scheduled for the parent to attend at the courthouse.