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Lakeport Elementary Attendance Strategies

By Attendance Team: Sunny, Sarah, Krystal, Rob Young

GOAL OF THIS SESSION: TO INCREASE AWARENESS, COMMUNICATION AND STRATEGIES AROUND OUR ATTENDANCE PLAN AT LAKEPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

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Lake County Highest % in CA.

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-Attendance Works report

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Current Data

From the Dashboard

FROM DASHBOARD

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Administration/Attendance Secretary:

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“Making Progress with our strategies and I tell other schools about your progress”

  • Robo calls go out at 11:00
  • Attendance Daily Review and when students are out more than 2 days we start interventions: Asst. Principal/Attendance Sec. call family, Schad does home visits when we can’t reach family at Truancy 2 letter
  • Truancy Letters Sent Home: “3, 6, 9”
  • Dashboard work PBIS strategies for interventions: Highlighted/working with LCOE (2 Quarterly meeting to discuss strategies and trainings)
  • Trainings from LCOE (2 at county office and 1 in Sacramento area via ACSA)

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MTSS

We’ve been working with LCOE and have created an Attendance Team to look at attendance in Tiers

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MTSS Strategies applied to Attendance Intervention: Tier 1

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Examples: Beginning Year Letter

Monthly Recognition for Attendance - Class with Highest amount gets Tiger “Stuffie”

Tiger Flag and some of us are doing Spelling of PERFECT ATTENDANCE

Tiger Bucks now attached to Attendance, Mid Year Letter going out in March

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Tier 2

The process

Of

notification.

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Tier 2 Strategies:

Example: Truant Check out Sheet

“30 Minute Or More Check out form” (used as tracker and educational tool)

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Tier 2 Strategy

Truancy 2 Conference with families -

SART: Student Attendance Review Team

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  • SST format
  • Highlighting how to assist families in need
  • Who to invite to these meetings? Still a work in progress….
  • NEW Strategy to come out of our Quarterly Training at LCOE -
    • Summons to SART meeting at school site

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SART/SARB

Please

Refer to handout

Let’s read a couple

Points Build

the Habit of Good

Attendance Early

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Tier 3

  • Referral to SARB and D.A.
  • Truancy 3 Checklist- Show all interventions
  • Teacher Responsibilities: We can’t have any discrepancies (i.e. ACLU Case)
  • Dashboard Chronic Abs. Committee Highlighting District Initiatives:
    • How to target sub groups
    • Piloting LES PBIS strategies using Plan, Do, Study, Act

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Power and Authority of SARB

Pause to brainstorm on your planning sheet.

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SARB

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Build

Capacity for

Collaboration

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What Teaching Staff Can Do to help our Lakeport Elementary attendance

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Flags out when students are here/”Class points”/Incentives when they are all here.

Ritualize -How do you celebrate with your class when you get the green flag?

Positive Messaging: CDE says, “Tell kids you are important!”

Promote Attendance Challenge Week March 18 to 22 - It is now Spirit Week!

YOU CAN MAKE CALLS TOO and EMPHASIZING HOW WHEN THEY ARE GONE IMPACTS OUR CLASS ROOM/COMMUNITY and ITS DETRIMENTAL EFFECT

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