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.

Regular school attendance has a direct affect on student performance. Statistics show that students who attend school all day everyday do better academically. As a result, by June 2019 Westpine Middle will decrease the number of students with 5 or more absences (at-risk and chronic) by 2% as evidenced by a comparison of the data from 201-2018 to 2018 -2019.

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

Westpine encourages all students to attend school everyday, all day. To help facilitate this culture we do the following;

• Westpine's Parent commitment wall which is signed by parents committing to sending their child every day.
• Attendance team reviews attendance patterns to identify at risk students.
• Students will participate in grade level assemblies that will focus on the importance of daily attendance.
• Implementation of the school-wide attendance plan.
• Teachers will identify students that show early signs of non-attendance and refer to Rti.

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

Parents of students with five or more absences will receive notification concerning their child's non-attendance. Afterwards the following will occur to change this unwanted behavior;

• Student will be referred to Rti as pattern of non-attendance.
• Family will be contacted by Schools Counselor to see what can be done to assist with correcting this behavior.
• Set attendance goals with the student and their family.
• Assist through the School Counselor and School Social Worker, in removing barriers that is preventing regular attendance.
• Involve School Nurse when barrier includes medical issues.

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

The ability to identify and support students and their families with sever absenteeism is vital to the student's success. For that reason, if excessive absences continue after implementation of Tier 2 strategies and interventions the student will progress to Tier 3. Tier 3 will target one or more of the interventions below;

• Engage students and Parents: determine if the student should have agency assistance. (CINS/FINS or BTIP)
• Attendance Contract with student and family.
• Require Doctor's note when child is absent from school.
• If the child has a medical issue, look at possible Hospital Homebound referral programs.