A Practical Approach to Achieving a Culture of Positive Attendance - Identifying Patterns in Grade Level and Subgroups

A Practical Approach to

Achieving a Culture of Positive Attendance

Part 3 of a 6-part Blog  

Identifying Patterns in Grade Level and Subgroups and Responding in accordance:

After implementing approaches for Awareness & Rewards, each district must have a plan of interventions for those students who would be doing absences. Interventions are the second Tier of defense in the battle against chronic absenteeism and truancy. These must be very precise and demand quick execution. The plan of interventions should be based on the district’s local demographics and resources. One size does not fit all – in a similar way, one strategy or interventions plan that may have worked for one school district may not bring the same positive results elsewhere. Therefore, it is important to thoughtfully create an intervention plan based on the district’s demographics and internal resources. Then the district must automate to ensure its successful execution in ONE integrated system. Most districts rely on multiple non-integrated systems when it comes to implementing their attendance tracking and interventions management. Use of Student Information System (SIS) in conjunction with manual Excel and Word-based processes is very common. We believe that this is where major leaks occur, and the delays are common in fulfilling interventions and accomplishing success for the district’s attendance improvement strategies and plans. A fully integrated and specialized attendance tracking and interventions management system (like RaaWee K12 TDPS) is recommended to be considered as an enabler and facilitator to any plan. With an integrated system, students with attendance challenges in any grade and subgroups are immediately identified and quickly attended as per their individualized circumstances.

 “Automation of an interventions plan is essential to successful execution and achieving the                     desire attendance improvement result”

   Habitual chronic absenteeism can be stopped, and truancy can be reduced by providing timely intervention tools to stakeholders on the front-line. Attendance Clerks, Assistant Principals, Child Welfare & Attendance Officers, Truancy Officers, Social Workers can produce better results by utilizing a proven cost and time-saving program like RaaWee K12 TDPS.