1. Raising Attendance Rate

2. Goal and Objectives OGoal: Upon the completion of the web-based tutorial, school staff will be able to apply information learned by implementing the interventions mentioned to raise the attendance rate at their school O Objective 1:After completing the training, the school staff will chart progress of their students attendance rates with 100% accuracy. OObjective 2: After completing the training, the school staff will have an ice cream social for students who came to school every day for a month with 100% accuracy.OObjective 3:After completing the training, the school staff will put up names of students with good attendance in the main hallway with 100% accuracy 3. Poor Attendance Affects academic achievement Achievement gap Drop out rate 4. Question Who knows the attendance rate for our school? Turn to a neighbor and discuss. 5. Attendance at our School Year-to-Date ComparisonsMonth 2013 September 95.2 October 93.4 November 92.8 December 94.62012201195.8 94.8 94.6 93.495.0 93.7 93.5 92.0 6. Understanding Attendance Rates 7. Summary Step 1:Step 2:Review data.Put incentives into place.Step 3:Step 4:Go over data monthly.Carry out incentives. Step 5:Take more data. 8. Summative Assessment Turn to a neighbor and discuss the two incentives that will be used to raise attendance goals. How will they raise attendance? 9. Activity Pull out your attendance data from the beginning of the school year until now. What does it look like? Highlight the students names that have perfect attendance one color and highlight students names that are chronically absent another color. 10. Activity You will now chart your class data on an Excel spreadsheet. 11. Reminder You will track data on attendance at the start of next month. Students who have perfect attendance will receive ice cream in the cafeteria. Students who have good attendance and miss 1-2 days in one month will have their names posted in the hallway outside the office for recognition.