Attendance Resources
Windward District's Be Pono, Be In School Campaign: Our on-going effort to help promote daily attendance
*Sign Waving Days *Be Pono, Be in School Posters/Banners *Poster Contests
*Video contests *Best Attendance Contests *Windward Mall - Attendance Month awareness and display
How can School Social Workers support your school with chronic absenteeism?
Tier 1
Participate in Attendance Team meetings and assist each school in planning universal strategies to encourage good attendance for all students
Tier 2
As a member of your school's Attendance Team, we can assist your school in providing early intervention for students who need more support to avoid chronic absence
Tier 3
Participate in more intensive interventions for highly chronic students, including regular monitoring of student's attendance, attendance meetings with parent/student, home visits as deemed necessary, and assist with the filing of Family Court petitions
Elementary and Secondary Level Interventions to Improve Chronic Absenteeism
Elementary Secondary
-TARO -Tardy Halls
-Attendance Groups -Mentor/Group check-ins
-Mentor check-ins -Start school later (e.g. 8:30am)
-Recess Hi-5 Club -Engage students in tracking their own attendance daily
-Extra recess All Grade Levels
-HW passes -Consider surveying students to see what they will work for
-Extended computer time -Consider cycling interventions in and out over time, modify as need
-Parent/Tutu/Staff lunch time -Recognize good and improved attendance
-Picture on Attendance Photo Board -Develop an Action Plan addressing barriers/ways to engage students
A Helpful Resource
https://www.attendanceworks.org/
Attendance Works is a national and state initiative that promotes better policy, practice and research around school attendance. Their goal is to ensure that more districts track this often overlooked metric and that schools and communities take the right steps to improve attendance.
In addition to providing education and awareness, Attendance Works offers a wide variety of resources and strategies for monitoring, understanding, and addressing chronic absence beginning in the early grades through secondary school.
These strategies can help promote:
Positive Engagement with families and students,
Actionable Data to help you identify students with too many absences, and the
Capacity Building to help build a culture of attendance in your classroom, school or district.
*A toolkit is available to help guide you with this process.
*All tools can be downloaded and used without express permission from Attendance Works.