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.

Goal 1-Currently, Indian Trace Elementary has a population of 737 students in Kindergarten through 5th grade. The chronic absenteeism for the entire school is
1.36%. Our goal is to reduce chronic absenteeism to 1%

Goal 2-The percentage of students considered At Risk for absenteeism was 27% in 2017/18. Our goal is to reduce the percentage of students At Risk to 24%.

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:
The Assistant Principal will ensure that all teachers have completed the Brainshark training for taking classroom attendance at the elementary level (K-5).
The IMT will monitor attendance taking procedures weekly and will report concerns to the Assistant Principal.
The support team will monitor BASIS quarterly for attendance concerns and will report to the School Social Worker for follow up.
Quarterly school wide recognitions will be given to students with 95% attendance or higher.
Principal will include messages about the importance of good attendance during Weekly Call outs to parents.
Attendance is included on all report cards.
Free breakfast is provided to all students every day.

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

The leadership team will use BASIS weekly to identify students that have enough absences to be considered chronically absent.
School Counsleor and/or Scoial Worker will reach out by phone to speak with parents of chronically absent students to identify if any support is needed for the family.
Administration will recognize students routinely for good and improved attendance.
Parent teacher conferences with support staff will be scheduled to discuss absences and challenges to identify barriers we may be able to assist with.
Connect families with the School Social Worker to provide insight as tot he role of a School Social Worker, establish a relationship, and provide clinical support and services.

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

Support team will monitor data from BASIS to identify students that are missing too many days of school.
The Broward Truancy Intervention Plan (BTIP) may initiate truancy letters to hold 5-day and 10-day meetings with the parents, principal (or designee), District representative, and State Attorney's Office for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida.
Rewards will be used as incentives to help students and parents improve attendance.
When the student misses school, a member of the Support team will will follow up with the teacher and the family.
Implement an agreed upon family intervention plan. Monitor for progress.