Healthy Attendance

Healthy Attendance is a way of clarifying we want everyone to attend when they are healthy and able to be with us safely.

Key Strategies - Healthy Attendance

• Reiterate that ill students and staff members should stay home.
  

• Disseminate and provide support for the implementation of strategies outlined in Identifying and Responding to Student Engagement tiered-response protocol.
  

• Utilize the PAUSD Attendance Flow Chart to systematically address attendance concerns.
  

• Implement attendance interventions consistent with Identifying and Responding to Student Engagement and the PAUSD Attendance Flow Chart.
  

• Conduct outreach to identified students and families to determine barriers to attendance.
  

• Provide parent education on the importance of attendance.
  

• Assign Student Success Coaches to students with significant attendance concerns (Tier 3).
  

• Develop individualized attendance improvement plans for students who are chronically absent.

How will we measure progress? (Key Performance Indicators)

• School sites properly coding students’ absences for consistency and compliance.
  

• School sites servicing students and their families based on chronic absenteeism or habitual truancy needs.
  

• Weekly attendance reports and follow-through with students and parents regarding absenteeism patterns will help to increase attendance.
  

• Recognizing students for improved attendance.
  

• Monthly meetings with school site attendance personnel to calibrate the tiered system for improving attendance.