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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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• 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 – strader_d@aps.eduTeri Wimborne -

teri.wimborne@uwcnm.org

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!

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