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.

The attendance increase goal for North Lauderdale Pre-K-8 is 10% per semester for the 2018-2019 school year.

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

North Lauderdale Pre-K-8 will be addressing the following schoolwide Tier 1 Strategies for Attendance:

• Using attendance Line (phone number) easily accessible on the school website
• Identifying the staff member utilized as the Attendance Manager.
• Promoting attendance using your school's Twitter account. Follow @BCPS_180 for content designed for Broward Schools.
• Having 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).
• Ensuring that all teachers are trained to take attendance accurately. Encourage all to take attendance in a timely and accurate manner. 
• Making phone calls home, include information about attendance

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

For North Lauderdale Pre-K-8 students with at-risk attendance and a history of chronic absenteeism, teachers, guidance counselors, administrators, and school social workers will be involved in Collaborative Problem-Solving Teams, to discuss attendance and the causes for those students' absences. The following strategies address students appearing on the "Pattern of Non-Attendance" Report which is available weekly:

• Monitoring data and looking for qualitative data to assess underlying causes for continued absences.
• Engaging students and parents through positive communication that supports a good relationship between the school and family.
• Provide information about support from the Student Services Department within Broward Schools (School Social Worker, Family Counseling, HEART). http://www.Browardstudentservices.com
• Setting attendance goals with the student and family
• Removing Barriers to Attendance: Involve public agencies and community partners, involve the school nurse to follow-up on medical related absences, connect families with school-based resources.

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

North Lauderdale's Pre-K-8's Tier 3 - Intensive Support for students with severe absenteeism (20% or more missed days) and chronic absenteeism (10% or more missed days) will encompass:

• Monitoring Data: Identifying students that have a history of missing 20% or more of school and are at-risk due to other challenges.
• Engaging Students and Parents: Determining if the student should have an agency involved (CINS/FINS or BTIP).
• Referring students and families to appropriate agencies.
• Ensuring students are connected with positive supports (social worker, mentor, peers)
• Following through on commitments of support to the family. Providing positive and regular contact.