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The best practice for check-ins is consistency. Set a schedule for individuals days allowing for each days unique variations, and keep it.

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Best Practices: check in after 2 absences(every day may be annoying to parents)
Assisting older students with time management and scheduling
Ideas: Parent Lottery
Presenting the Final 59 to parents/students in a positive manner, showing they are in a good place and have the potential to get an incentive if they work even harder

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Douglass: Incentivize not only students but teachers.  Maybe grade team leads can own a part of the attendance piece having a check point with their teachers 

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Douglass: Incentivize not only students but teachers.  Maybe grade team leads can own a part of the attendance piece having a check point with their teachers 

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Using detention passes- students are given the incentive to come into school even if they are going to be late. Normally, if they are late twice in a week they get detention but if they come into the building at 90% they can earn detention passes

Cheesesteak- every two weeks if they are present 9/10 days they get a cheesesteak

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DOUGLASS UPPER: We need to do a sweep over parent numbers to make certain that we have current information for parents as phone is best.  Kickboard check ins in the morning, Friday breakfast breaks. While you have parents in the building run attendance for them to see live in an MPC meetings- Remind about incentives (trips etc) Is it possible for homeroom teachers to call parents when students are absent? Can we take attendance multiple periods ? 

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DOUGLASS UPPER: We need to do a sweep over parent numbers to make certain that we have current information for parents as phone is best.  Kickboard check ins in the morning, Friday breakfast breaks. While you have parents in the building run attendance for them to see live in an MPC meetings- Remind about incentives (trips etc) Is it possible for homeroom teachers to call parents when students are absent? Can we take attendance multiple periods ? 

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Check-in with students during morning entry and lunch.
Weekly shout-outs, school-wide celebrations, reaching out to families.

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Clymer dean team has time in built in their schedules to makes daily calls/texts to families and the SPED dept also follows up with families and students as needed. Each grade band dean planned daily and/or monthly incentives for students that meet attendance goals. 

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Clymer dean team has time in built in their schedules to makes daily calls/texts to families and the SPED dept also follows up with families and students as needed. Each grade band dean planned daily and/or monthly incentives for students that meet attendance goals. 

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Best Practices for Investing In Attendance :
During morning Greeting, a quick word to check in re: goal. Ex: "welcome back, we've missed you", "Glad to see you" show authenticity and investment in helping the student reach their goal.

Best practices for efficient & effective parent/family phone calls when a student is absent :
The best time varies based on Dean and student... During walk-throughs, making sure to make contact with the student at some point before the midday point. Let them know where they are in terms of meeting the goal, or gain knowledge /insight on if they have constant barriers to getting to school everyday. From there deans and case managers can check in to troubleshoot.

Best practices for efficient & effective parent/family phone calls when student is absent :
Saving family's numbers in phones and sending quick check texts. While building relationships, speak with other members of the family to help build support around the student and their goal.(Older Siblings are able to act as additional supports in reaching attendance goals.

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weekly check-ins, trackers so that teachers/case managers/deans can leave notes for parents, communciation with parents, sending general updates to teachers/attendance coordinator with important information for why students attendance is a concern (if applies), parent meetings if needed, attendance contracts, incentives/reward system, weekly office hours schedule

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Poppin Fridays- Lollipops for perfect attandance
Check In Check Out
Raffles
NBA Challenge- Not Being Absent Challenege class gets 2pt shot for 95% MVP Students are students with poor attendance they get 3 point shot!! Class with most points end of week win
Bill Pay for families with low attendance to get parents to bring students to school

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Using weekly attendance tracks and morning texts have help my cohorts in past. I try to also involve the parent to get input and buy in as well

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Plan with students, and not for them: Have a vast assortment of incentive options when seeking a buy-in from students. Give them what they want, not what you want them to have.

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Calendar reminders in outlook
text messages to families
daily/weekly incentives
class dojo messaging

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Weekly calls, reach out to parents, check-in with students, daily trackers, issue kickboards point/bucks

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For students in our Anchor program, we have a group chat and divide up contacting families when chronically absent students are not present by the end of 1st period.

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Weekly communication with parents. Incentives at the end of each week. Daily tracker.

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Weekly communication with parents. Incentives at the end of each week. Daily tracker.

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Call parents once a week, if your kid attend school everyday during week, she or he will receive a incentive.

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Best practices and ideas on how to make daily check-ins work in current schedule 

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Best practices and ideas on how to make daily check-ins work in current schedule 

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set alarms in phone , building into school schedule , place some responsibility on students
calendar reminder in outlook, prema
lunch, prep, m

Calendar reminder on my phone

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Cleveland:  Messaging parents when their student is not at school or morning meetings has been helpful, as they inform me if they are running late, have an appointment, or have a family emergency.  The daily attendance messages have helped form an open communication with families and a level of trust to let me know why their student is not at school, and when they will return.

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Cleveland:  Messaging parents when their student is not at school or morning meetings has been helpful, as they inform me if they are running late, have an appointment, or have a family emergency.  The daily attendance messages have helped form an open communication with families and a level of trust to let me know why their student is not at school, and when they will return.

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As a dean I check in with my kids at my morning post when they walk in the building. If I don't see them I call home see if they are coming in late.

As a case manager I do morning walk throughs to each of my students class to see if they are at school.

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KYP, know your people. Knowing temperaments, schedules, housing situations or any other pertinent information before placing calls home is a valuable tool for being effective. It allows you to properly frame and present what you want from parents.

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Best practices for efficient & effective parent/family phone calls when student is absent 

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Best practices for efficient & effective parent/family phone calls when student is absent 

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gratz- During Prep , come in early and send message to family morning arrival , lunch periods
gratz-reminding parents to schedule appointments around
school schedule and bring in drs appointments
gratz- check in with other staff first before calling , being sensitive to possible family crisis/emergencies
During my break will be best  time to make contact with parents

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Best practices for investing students in attendance goal 

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Best practices for investing students in attendance goal 

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daily/weekly incentives
consistency with incentives and check-ins.
daily shout outs to students...let the kids pick their incentive (lunch, breaks, snacks---weekly; ie- 4 out of 5 days)...school wide public celebration on small gains...use the stairwell attendance board as a bi-weekly shout out...Get parents behind the push...detention passes...