1. Student Health and Human Services Attendance Improvement Strategies
Pupil Services
Attendance Improvement Strategies
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Valerie Corcoran
LOCAL DISTRICT SOUTH
March 27, 2017
Pupil Services

2. Goals for Today Discuss Strategic Planning Tiers of Intervention
Identify Best Practices
Provide tools/samples
Tiers of Intervention
Universal
Targeted
Intensive

3. Innovative Attendance Practices Award Winner
Jordan High School
Carlos Montes, Principal
Sara Leimbach-Hollingsworth,
Restorative Justice Coordinator

4. Events and Field Trip Opportunities

5. Events and Field Trip Opportunities

6. Events and Field Trip Opportunities

7. Events and Field Trip Opportunities

8. Events and Field Trip Opportunities

9. Events and Field Trip Opportunities

10. Competitions

11. Competitions

12. Awards and Achievements

16. Innovative Attendance Practices Award Winner
Your School Here !
share your best practices
Directors will be nominating winners for next month,
Your Name here
The Giant trophy can be yours!

17. Increasing Teacher Attendance
STAFF ATTENDANCE MONITORING PROTOCOL
There is a strong correlation between Teacher attendance and student achievement.
Monitor and provide differentiated attendance support for All Faculty and Staff
Teacher Accurate Attendance Contract and
Sample Staff Attendance Reminders are in your packet and on the website (Thank you, Dr. Sample)

18. Increasing Attendance Accuracy
Attendance and Tardy Policies in place?
Procedures in Place?
Are all stakeholders aware?
ANS report run twice daily – corrections entered
Discrepancy reports daily – corrections entered
Who is reviewing the SMASR report on a regular basis? L-date = Last date of attendance?
Who is clearing the absences?
Who is monitoring and addressing the absences?

19. Increasing Attendance Accuracy
ATTENDANCE SUBMITTAL MONITORING
Teachers – including subs – enter attendance
1st 15 minutes of class
Tardies as per your school policy to
Leave early
Attendance Submittal Strategies are in your packet and on the website (Thank you, Dr. Sample)

20. Share Data / Teach (and re-teach) Attendance
School Attendance (MyData At-Risk Report)
By Grade level (MyData At-Risk Report)
Teacher level (Attendance Summary Report)
Student level (Attendance Referral Report)
Why is this data important to each stakeholder?
How can data be used/shared with each group?
When? How often?

21. Strategic Attendance Interventions
Universal
Newsletters, bulletin boards, poster contest, banners
Blackboard connect messages
Presentations to staff, students, parents
Fun, interesting, critical activities on high absence days
??? What high absence dates are coming up ???
Universal Strategies and Strategies by Attendance Bands
and Sample Poster Contest Flyer
In your packet and on the website

22. Attendance-Related Incentives
For Who?
For What?
When?
Free or Inexpensive Rewards for Students and Adults and Sample Incentive Chart
In your packet and on the website

23. Targeted Interventions (Groups)
For Who?
Stakeholders based on:
Grade, Classroom, Identified need, data
Why?
Teach/re-teach, engagement, skill building
What?
Assemblies, field trips, group support, workshops, incentives, letters, BB Connect messages

24. Intensive Interventions (1 x 1)
For Who?
Any Stakeholder
Why?
Individual attention required
What?
Personal phone call, note, letter, contract, incentive, case management, referrals to resources
SART Contract (English and Spanish)
In your packet and on the website

26. “To ensure that all LAUSD students are enrolled, attending, engaged, and on-track to graduate”
LD South Pupil Services & Attendance
Websites:
LD South-Operations-PSA-Attend to the End