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 January 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the satisfactory attendance category in the first semester will increase from 63.29% in 2017-2018 to 66% in 2018-2019.
By June 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the satisfactory attendance category in the second semester will increase from 60.42% in 2017-2018 to 63% in 2018-2019.

By January 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the at-risk attendance category in the first semester will decrease from 25.10% in 2017-2018 to 22% in 2018-2019.
By June 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the at-risk attendance category in the second semester will increase from 27.76% in 2016-2017 to 24% in 2018-2019.

By January 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the chronic absenteeism attendance category in the first semester will decrease from 10.73% in 2017-2018 to 8% in 2018-2019.
By June 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the chronic absenteeism attendance category in the second semester will increase from 9.82% in 2017-2018 to 7.2%% in 2018-2019.

By January 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the severe chronic absenteeism attendance category in the first semester will decrease from 0.88% in 2017-2018 to 0.6% in 2018-2019.
By June 2019, the percent of kindergarten through 5th grade students in the severe chronic absenteeism attendance category in the second semester will increase from 2.0% in 2017-2018 to 1.0% in 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

Monitor Data:

• Teachers take daily attendance before 8:30 AM each morning.
• Absences are posted daily to our sharepoint conference from classroom teachers regarding notes and emails sent to them for their child's absence.
• Absences are retrieved from the attendance line and posted in Pinnacle daily.
• IMT ensures attendance is submitted correctly and unexcused absences are corrected in PInnacle when parents call attendance line or send in absence notes.

• Teachers contact parents when 3 or more consecutive days are missed.
• Doctor's notes are required for excessive consecutive absences.

• Perfect attendance (no tardies and no absences) will be recognized by administration with a certificate quarterly and a certificate and pin/award for all four quarters at the end of the school year.

• Administration meets weekly with School Social Worker to discuss attendance concerns.  Social Worker will contact parents regarding excessive absences and tardies.

• Continually inform parents through parent link and newsletters regarding the importance of getting to school on time and decreasing absences and early sign-outs to ensure no gaps in instruction.

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

Monitor Data:

• Letters are sent from administration quarterly to parents to inform of excessive absences and tardies.

• Teachers contact parents when 3 or more consecutive days are missed.
• Doctor's notes are required for excessive consecutive absences.
• Absenteeism contracts are developed for students who have excessive absences or tardies with parental involvement.  Absences and tardies will no longer be excused unless a doctor's note is provided.

• Perfect attendance (no tardies and no absences) will be recognized by administration with a certificate quarterly and a certificate and pin/award for all four quarters at the end of the school year.

• Classroom teachers and administration submit Social Worker referrals for excessive absences and tardies.
• Services are offered by the Social Worker for families with unique situations regarding excessive absence and tardies.

• Continually inform parents through parent link and newsletters regarding the importance of getting to school on time and decreasing absences and early sign-outs to ensure no gaps in instruction.

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

Monitor Data:

• Letters are sent from administration quarterly to parents to inform of excessive absences and tardies.
• IMT monitors students' absences on a weekly basis and informs administration to subit social worker referral.

• Teachers contact parents when 3 or more consecutive days are missed.
• Doctor's notes are required for excessive consecutive absences.
• Absenteeism contracts are developed for students who have excessive absences or tardies with parental involvement.  Absences and tardies will no longer be excused unless a doctor's note is provided.
• Parent in school conference with administraion and school social worker.

• Perfect attendance (no tardies and no absences) will be recognized by administration with a certificate quarterly and a certificate and pin/award for all four quarters at the end of the school year.

• Classroom teachers and administration submit Social Worker referrals for excessive absences and tardies.
• Services are offered by the Social Worker for families with unique situations regarding excessive absence and tardies.
• School will request a Broward Truancy Intervention Program (BTIP) Meeting with parents to address attendance concerns.  After school has met with Broward Truancy Intervention Program (BTIP), parent and social worker, absenteeism will be monitored and if chronic absenteeism continues, the school will request a hearing with the court.

• Continually inform parents through parent link and newsletters regarding the importance of getting to school on time and decreasing absences and early sign-outs to ensure no gaps in instruction.