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.

In 2017/18, first grade had the most at risk students for attendance with 31%. In 1^st grade, our goal is to reduce the number of students that are considered at risk for attendance by 10% for the 2018/2019 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

• Monitor Data
  • Kathy Woods is our IMT/ Attendance Office Worker and she will monitor attendance weekly. Ms. Woods informed all the staff of the brain shark that was provided at the beginning of the year so all staff members are aware of the attendance of procedures. 
• Engage Students and Families
  • All families are encouraged to attend school regularly and are informed of the school procedures via monthly school newsletters. The attendance procedures are also listed on the school website. 
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
  • Administration acknowledges students attendance with 100% certificates quarterly. 
• Provide Personalized Outreach
  • Students attendance is provided in the student report cards quarterly. Teachers reach out to parents when the students have excessive tardies or absences. School administration and guidance become involved if students attendance does not improve after teachers reach out. 
• Remove Barriers
  • The school provides free breakfast for all students to encourage parents bringing students to school on time and eat a nutritious breakfast. The school has two bike areas that are locked during the day for students that make ride a bike to school. 

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
  • After 3 unexcused absences contact is made by the teacher to the parent.
  • After 5 unexcused absences contact is made by Assisstant Principal.
  • After 7 unexcused absences contact is made by the School Social Worker.
  • After 10 unexcused absences the BTIP Process begins.  A letter is generated from the State Attorneys Office.
• Engage Students and Families
  • After 10 days of being tardy, a staff member will discuss attendance policy with parents.
  • A letter is generated when the child reaches 360 academic minutes (which equals 1 academic day) or 10 tardies in a four week period.  This could be due to being signed out early.  
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
  • Students are recognized quarterly for good and improved attendance. 
• Provide Personalized Outreach
  • Teachers use parent conferences to discuss absences and challeges to identify the barriers that may be hindering a student from attending school regularly. 
• Remove Barriers
  • The school social worker is available to provide support for families and teachers to help improved student attendance. 

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
  • ​The school will identify students that have a history of having exsessive absences and these students will be monitored throughout the year. 
• Engage Students and Families
  • ​The school utilizes the Broward Turancy Internvtion Plan (BTIP) to provide truancy letters to parents. 
  • The school will use the best practicies provided by the district to decreasre chronic absences. 
• Recognize Good and Improved Attendance
  • ​The teacher, counselors, parents, and the school social workers will work together to create a positive plan that will reinforce student attendance. 
• Provide Personalized Outreach
  • ​Personal that is assigned to follow up on student attendance will check-in regularly with the teacher and students to provide a positive interaction with the sutdent and families. 
• Remove Barriers
  • ​The school will implement a family intervention plan.