1. Attendance Works Behavior Webinar February 24, 2017 Dr. Laura C. Moran

2. SSIP Coherent Improvement Strategies
Attendance Strategies and Alternative Programming
Strategy 4: Promote the implementation of attendance strategies and alternative programming that will increase the likelihood of graduation

3. What is Attendance Works?
Is a national and state initiative that promotes awareness of the important role attendance plays in achieving academic success
3 Focus Areas for Attendance
Build public awareness and political will
Foster state campaigns
Encourage local practice

4. What is Chronic Absence?
Different from truancy or average daily attendance (how many students show up to school each day)
Attendance Works defines chronic absence as missing 10% or more of school for ANY reason

8. Tiered Approach to Attendance

9. Sample Tiered Approach for Attendance
Check and Connect or Mentor Program
Truancy Elimination Plans (Attendance Success Plans)
Home Visits
Intensive Case Management with coordination of public agency and legal response as needed
Tier 2
Check In and Check Out or provide a mentor to check in with students
Provide personalized early outreach to identify barriers/problem solve solutions
Meet with families to create attendance plan
Tier 1
Recognize good and improved attendance on a weekly/monthly basis
Survey students for reinforcers
Monitor attendance and set schoolwide goals (create a campaign within the school and community)
Educate students and families about the importance of attendance (website, social media messages, posters, newsletters, trainings)
Identify and address common barriers to getting to school
Establish a positive and engaging school climate (PBIS is an eventual goal)
Attendance Director will make visits to elementary and middle schools to spread attendance awareness with students, teachers, and families
Share PaTTAN Attendance/Family Engagement publications on website and school office
This is an example of how one of the sites is addressing a attendance by utilizing a tiered approach.

10. Avoid recognizing only perfect attendance…also reward improved attendance
Part of a comprehensive approach
Helps to create a school-wide culture of attendance
Ask students what they consider to be meaningful incentives
Reward timeliness as well…not just showing up to school!
Reinforce families as well as students (food baskets, transportation passes, etc.)

11. Sample process of Survey Distribution:
Social Studies teachers will distribute.
This form can be completed on the computer or by hand.
We thought about entering the information into SurveyMonkey…
Will use this information to make a plan to reinforce attendance at Tier 1.

13. Resources PaTTAN -- www.pattan.net
Under “Educational Initiatives” click on “Increasing Graduation Rates and Decreasing Dropout Rates”
If time permits, take them to the PaTTAN web site. If not, just show them this slide.

14. PaTTAN Publications
Let the audience know that these publications are available on the PaTTAN website and information on how to access these documents are presented at the end of the presentation.

15. Resources Attendance Works http://www.attendanceworks.org/
If time permits, take them to the PaTTAN web site. If not, just show them this slide.

16. Teaching Attendance Toolkit

17. Leading Attendance Principal Toolkit

18. Family Engagement Materials

19. Free Webinars Archived Free Webinars
Attendance Awareness All Year Long: Reviewing and Sustaining Progress
Ensuring an Equal Opportunity to Learn
Collective Action: Taking a Cross-Sector Approach
Using Data to Drive Action: Portraits of Chronic Absence
Motivating Good Attendance All Year Long
School Every Day: What Effective Principals Do to Improve School Attendance
Others

20. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Contact Information
Laura C. Moran, Ph.D.
Educational Consultant -- PaTTAN Harrisburg
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tom Wolf, Governor