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.

Liberty Elementary is a Title 1 school located in Margate, FL.  Data Warehouse shows that for the 2017-2018 school year, Broward elementary schools had an average daily attendance rate of 94.9%.

Hero tracking and rewarding has been implemented- rewarding compliant attendance- quarterly

Parent link phone calls/newsletter  to remind parents of attendance policy- quarterly

Parents will be provided with a new emergency contact card midyear in order to keep telephone numbers updated in Pinnacle/TERMS and the school's database- beginning and mid year
Parent link to remind parents that if they have changed their numbers to please contact the school- mid 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

*  The attendance line telephone number was sent home in a First Day of School packet
*  Arlene Juliene and Maria Valencia are attenndance managers
*  Attendance is promoted utiling the school's Twitter/Remind accounts and monthly newsletters
*  Quarterly perfect attendance awards, and those who missed less than 3 days per quarter are given at grade level assemblies
*  All teachers were given Pinnacle staff development for attendance best practices

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

In order for an absence to be excused, parents or guardians must contact the school within 48 hours indicating why the student is absent or written documentation must be provided upon the student's return to school.  The following steps will be taken in the case of excessive unexcused absences:

• Classroom teachers take attendance daily through Pinnacle
• Attendance clerk and teacher will identify students with issues of greater than 5 absences and parents will be called
• Implement attendance contract
• Refer to Social Worker for more than 10 absences, identify HEART candidates
• Hero tracking and rewarding system has been implemented
• Work with school liaison to provide for family needs such as clothing, food
• Involve the school nurse to follow up on medical related absences
• Involve students in the RTI process if deemed necessary

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

Create and deploy positive messages and measures.  Implement positive and supportive engagement strategies—such as:

• Monitor student attendance
• Weekly Opti Spool Report for patern of non-attendance
• Staff phone call or letter to parent
• Parent conference with administrator/designee
• Student conference
• Code of "071" (pattern of non attendance) assigned, attendance agreement assigned, BTIP process begins
• Referral to Social Worker
• Tutoring/Peer Tutoring/Mentoring
• Class change consideratior or evaluation for alternative educational program
• Liberty is a STEM Magnet school.  Proper attendance is a requirement for students to maintain their agnet status.  Magnet students who have excessive absences will receive a probationary contract alerting their parents that if the attendance does not improve the student's magnet status will be rescinded and they will return to their home school