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.

1. The school’s overall attendance for all grade levels will be above 75% at the end of the 1^st and 2^nd semesters.
2. The percentage of students with chronic absenteeism will be less than 10% at the end of the 1^st and 2^nd semesters.
3. The percentage of students with severe chronic absenteeism will be less than 3% at the end of the 1^st and 2^nd semesters.

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

1. Attendance line (phone number will be displayed on the school’s website and easily accessible).
2. Ms. Hernandez will be the point person as the Attendance Manager
3. Classrooms are identified and rewarded monthly based on exceptional attendance.
4. Students are rewarded quarterly for perfect attendance during grade-level assemblies.
5. Teachers are well trained in taking attendance accurately and are provided logs for tracking tardiness.
6. Information regarding attendance is included during parent conferences and phone calls home from teachers, guidance counselor and school social worker.
7. Attendance reports are printed biweekly.

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

1. Quantitative data regarding absences is monitored by teachers, guidance counselors, administrators, and school social worker.
2. Qualitative data is assessed to identify underlying causes to absences.
3. Students and parents are engaged in positive communication with school support staff to problem solve attendance issues.
4. Attendance goals are set for the student and family using a SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) format
5. Information is provided about support in the community (School Social Worker, Counseling, HEART, CINS/FINS).

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

1. Data is monitored for students with severe (20% or more) and chronic (10% or more) absenteeism.
2. Engage the students and parents with positive communication between the School social worker.
3. Engage the students and parents in a conversation regarding appropriate agencies (CINS/FINS)
4. Ensure that the student relates to positive supports in the school (Mentor, Guidance Counselor, School Resource Officer, School Social Worker, Teachers and Peers).
5. Monitor attendance goals weekly with reward incentives
6. Provide consistent feedback with parents and students