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#60Kby2020 @MissionGraduateMissionGraduateNM
2019ATTENDANCE TEAM CONFERENCE“BUILDING ON OUR STRENGTHS”
September 17, 2019
Welcome
Jessica NojekExecutive DirectorMission: Graduate
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Thank You to Our Conference Planning Team!
• Teri Wimborne• Laurel Wyckoff• Kelly Callahan• Patsy Nelson• Evelyn Bonilla• Kris Meurer• Kathy Gall• Angela Crespin• Selena Hardy
• Maria Molina• Marvin Johnson• Derek Kuit• Daphne Strader• Anne Tafoya• Renata Witte• Franklin Schargel• Hannah Royer
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Welcome!
• Have a better understanding of the actions necessary to comply with the Attendance For Success Act
• Have solid plans to increase attendance for the 2019/2020 school year
• Come away with tools and techniques for reducing chronic absences
Conference ObjectivesBy the end of today’s conference, each participating
school/district team will:
Overview of Day
• Context Setting• About Mission: Graduate & our work so far
• Welcome by Superintendent Raquel Reedy• Presentation by PED’s Katarina Sandoval and CYFD’s Nick
Costales• Guided Team Time• Workshop Session 1
• 9 options• Presentation on School Strategies• Working Lunch/Resource Meetings• Workshop Session 2
• 9 options• Team time and raffle prizes• Close
Mission: Graduate
Teri WimborneDirector of Collective Impact
Mission: Graduate
About Mission: Graduate
Mission: Graduate is a cradle-to-career education partnershipserving Central New Mexico.
Our Big Goal
60,000 New Central NM Graduates with College Degrees and Certificates by 2020
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Our Work
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School Attendance
& Engagement
Teacher Support
College & Career
Readiness
Adult Transitions to College
Prepared for College, Career, & Life
Our Theory of Change
Mission: Graduate works by:
• Identifying effective educational practices;
• Leveraging and aligning existing resources to replicate and spread impactful practices; and
• Collaborating across organizational boundaries to help every student succeed.
Why Attendance?
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Attendance is one of three key predictorsof falling off track to graduation.
• Attendance: <85-90% school attendance
• Behavior: “unsatisfactory” behavior mark in at least one class
• Course Performance: A final grade of “F” in Math and/or English or Credit-Bearing HS Course
Source: Robert Balfanz, “Building a Grad Nation: The Role of Learning Beyond the Classroom,” Presentation to the C.S. Mott Foundation, September 2011.
Truancy and Chronic Absence
• Habitual truancy:10 or more unexcused absences in a given school year
• Chronic absence:missing 10% or more of school days for any reason
Chronic Absence is Research-Based
Excused Absences
UnexcusedAbsences
Suspensions
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+Chronic Absence
Less likely to:• Build good attendance habits
• Read by third grade
• Stay in school
• Graduate from high school
Conference 2017 & 2018• 2017 - 189 school and school district attendees
• 47 school-based teams from 3 school districts plus charters• 2018 – 350 school and district attendees
• 59 school-based teams from 4 school districts• 100 PED Truancy Coaches
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Your Instructions
• Workshop Descriptions – link or QR Code to website.
• Mandatory Workshops – At least ONE member from each team must attend (repeated)
• Examine the program agenda and determine which break-out sessions each of your team members will go to. Split up!
• Take notes – be prepared to share with your team
• Use the Attendance Law sheet
• Surveys! We love data! Paper or link (QR code)
What Today is All About
Objectives (again)• Have a better understanding of the actions necessary to comply
with the Attendance For Success Act
• Have solid plans to increase attendance for the 2019/2020 school year
• Come away with tools and techniques for reducing chronic absences
Attendance Success Plans – on Table
Focus on New Law, Team Plans, Making a difference
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Welcoming Remarks
Raquel ReedySuperintendent
Albuquerque Public Schools
Co-ChairMission: Graduate Vision Council
Attendance For Success Law
Katarina SandovalDeputy Secretary, PED
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Mission Graduate 2019 Attendance Team Support
ConferenceKatarina Sandoval
Deputy Secretary, Academic EngagementSeptember 17, 2019
Successful Students Are…–Healthy –Safe–Engaged–Supported –Challenged
Create School Connectedness
• Safe classrooms and positive school climate• Students feel they are part of the school and
have attachment to adults and other students• Students feel that adults care about their
learning and well-being• Increases classroom engagement, attendance
and overall student success.
Shifting the Measure of Absenteeism
• At the federal level, there has been a shift from truancy compliance to absenteeism intervention and prevention
• As a result of ESSA, reporting chronic absenteeism will be required
• The chronic absenteeism measure will replace the state’s use of truancy data on the Dashboard
Chronic Absenteeism• Result of multiple factors that cause student
disengagement• Nationally, one in ten kindergarten and first
grade students are chronically absent, 1 in 5 high school students are chronically absent
• Poor attendance can influence reading proficiency at 3rd grade
• Improved attendance increases opportunity for academic success and graduation attainment
Root Causes of Absenteeism
• Students miss school for a variety of reasons:– Physical health issues– Mental health issues– School culture, climate and safety– Housing– Transportation
Truancy vs. Chronic Absenteeism
vs.Truancy
● Counts only unexcused absences● Emphasizes
compliance with school rules
●Doesn’t identify students at risk of academic failure
Chronic Absenteeism
● Counts all absences: excused, unexcused,
suspension● Emphasizes missed
instructional days ● Focuses on prevention
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House Bill 236• Repeals the current Compulsory School
Attendance Law (school year 19-20 is a transitional year)
• Aligns state policies with national trends• Enacts the Attendance for Success Act• Provides a process for prevention of absences,
early intervention, specialized supports, and CYFD referrals for students absent or chronically absent
• Requires data collection
Key Definitions
• “Absent” means not in attendance for a class or school day for any reason, whether excused or not.
• Chronically absent-a student has been absent for ten percent or more of classes or school days for any reason, whether excused or not.
• Excessively absent-student has been identified as needing intensive support and has not responded to intervention.
Revising Attendance Policies2020-2021
• Focus on prevention and intervention• Establish early warning system to identify
students at risk of chronic absenteeism or excessive absenteeism for proactive response
• Develop attendance success plans• Reduce ability of student to withdraw• Keep accurate class attendance • Form School-Based Attendance Teams
Whole School Prevention • Whole school prevention (Tier I) universal
strategies for all students, and those missing less than 5%
• Individualized prevention (Tier II) with targeted interventions for students missing 5% or more
• Early intervention (Tier III) for students missing 10% or more
• Intensive support (Tier III) for students missing 20% or more
Whole School Prevention
Prevention Strategies may include, but are not limited to:• Mentoring Programs• School Climate Programs (safety, teaching
and learning, relationships, learning environment)
• Attendance Incentive Programs• Parental Support and Relationship Building
Attendance Success Plans2020-2021
• Schools with 5% or greater of students or subpopulation with a chronic absence rate
• Comprehensive attendance data including trend data
• School-wide identification of potential root causes and whole school prevention intervention strategies
• Specific supports, resources and strategies for each tier
• Attendance improvement targets for schools with chronic absence rates of 10% or greater
• Data collection plan
Interventions for Chronically Absent
• Assessing student and family needs and providing resource linkage(s)
• Referrals for health care and other services
• Collaboration and coordination with school and community providers to provide student resources and services
• Family support and parent education programs
Special SituationsExpectant and
Parenting Students
Religious instruction
Cultural Observation
Expectant and Parenting Students
• 10 days of medical absences with documentation of child birth
• Four days of excused absences with appropriate documentation of pregnancy or parent responsibility for child under 13 needing care
• Equal time to make up work missed during absence
• Provision for off-site attendance for online education
Be Creative: Funding Resources for Schools• Student Support and Academic Enrichment
Grant (Title IV) • Title I • Rural Low Income Grant for qualifying
districts• Districts that implemented Attendance
Success Initiatives and/or Early Warning Systems have existing infrastructure
Attendance Success Coaches
Attendance coaches are • A PED licensed position• Can collect, maintain and report attendance data to
PED• Assist in developing and implementing Attendance
Success Plans• Address the needs of students and families through
providing support, service coordination and individualized interventions
• Facilitate staff trainings
National Resources
• Attendanceworks.org features attendance resources for educators and parents.
• Every Student, Everyday: A National Initiative to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism
• Everyone Graduates Center: http://every1graduates.org/
• Strive for Less than Five: Campaign that utilizes community and school-based strategies that encourage all students to strive for less than 5 absences.
Attendance For Success Law
Nick CostalesCYFD
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Guided Team Time
New Law
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Break Out #1 Room Assignments
Workshop RoomDon’t Freak Out! New Attendance Law Sandia VIAttendance Today, Success Tomorrow Sandia VIIIThe Pushouts BallroomAttendance Avengers Ocotillo II
Lessons Learned Ocotillo IAnalyzing School-Wide Attendance Sierra ITales From a 4 Year Attendance Team Sierra IIAligning School’s Attendance Support Sierra IIISimplifying Tier 3 Sandia VII
Moving From Teams and Strategies
Daphne Strader, APSTeri Wimborne,
Mission: Graduate
MOVING BEYOND TEAMS AND STRATEGIESSUCCESSES LEARNED FROM APS SCHOOLS
Daphne Strader
Teri Wimborne
Objectives
Look at local successesLook at elements of a comprehensive
attendance framework that move schools beyond teams and strategies
Look at the WHY and the HOW of effective attendance efforts
Lessons from Local Successes – the Why and the How
Effective Attendance Efforts are NOT just:
a data conversation about only one strategy or two
strategies in only one tier having an attendance team about checking a box
Effective Attendance Efforts ARE about:
Values
A school-wide commitment
Structures and processes
Targeted and aligned strategies
Engagement of stakeholders
Connections to learning
Student population
A COMPREHENSIVE AND ALIGNED ATTENDANCE FRAMEWORK (WITH CQI)
Driven By Values
Know Your Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytFB8TrkTo
School-wide Culture of Attendance
Staff Buy-in, focus on relationships with students, and intervention
Utilization of community partnerships and volunteers
Using the same language – Chronic Absenteeism and Everyday Matters Incentive programs
Bulletin boards with attendance graph
Poster contests
Family and Community Engagement
Principal quick meetings with families
Asking families what they want for their kids and emphasizing attendance
Newsletters with a standing piece on attendance and what is working
Training families to call in absences and sharing the message that attendance matters
Surveying students and families around attendance barriers and ensuring they know where to get resources and support
Connection to Learning Students developed their own
goal around what job they want as an adult / curriculum night
Advisory classes with new attendance targeted lesson plans
Students learning versus ISS or warehousing for tardies
Talking to families about the grade level expectations and how attendance is critical
Focusing Interventions on Developmentally Appropriate / Target Populations
Kindergarten teachers setting the foundation for attendance
9TH graders understanding Graduation Requirements
Targeted supports for families living in
poverty
Structures / Processes
Staff collaborationFamily / Student Teacher Meetings and
CallsAccess and use of dataATTENDANCE TEAMS
Alignment and Coordination
Leadership
Administrators
Teams Attendance
90 Day Plan
Every Classroom and Every Staff Person
Families as Leaders
Schools are Making a Difference!
Values and Priorities School-wide Approach Family and Community
Engagement Connection to Learning Developmentally Appropriate
/ Target Populations Structures and Processes Alignment and Coordination Leadership
Focus on the WHY and HOW
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Edward Everett Hale
Thank you
Contact Info: Daphne Strader – [email protected] Wimborne -
Resource Provider Visits
Team Time
Working Lunch
Team Time
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Breakout #2 Room Assignments
Workshop RoomEngagement Strategies – TED STYLE TALK Sandia VIII
Coordination and Data – TED STYLE TALK Ocotillo IStudent Voice – TED STYLE TALK Ocotillo IIBarriers and Strategies - TED STYLE TALK Sierra III
Data 101 - WORKSHOP Sierra IDon’t Freak Out – New Attendance Law WORKSHOP
Sandia VI
Simplifying Tier 3 - WORKSHOP Sandia VII
The Pushouts – Discussion WORKSHOP Ballroom
Engaging Students and Parents - WORKSHOP Sierra II
Guided Team Time
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Martin Flores
The Pushouts
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Closing & Evaluation & Door Prizes!
Thank you for attending!
Thank You Again to Our Sponsors!