Attendance Handbook Feedback by MORGAN MCDOWELL

data reports

bheim8 — 2025-09-17 13:06:19 UTC

Principals and APs are sharing with me that there is new, collective energy around the importance of attendance in their school communities.

2025-09-17 13:06:35 UTC

2025-09-17 13:07:12 UTC

Policy changes have occurred based on recommendations from summer teams.

attendance work overall seems well received by administrators, and elevated as a priority.

2025-09-17 13:07:17 UTC

akirchner1 — 2025-09-17 13:07:23 UTC

Teachers appreciate the ability to mark students TM and are hopeful this will increase family awareness.

accurate attendance taking

bheim8 — 2025-09-17 13:07:31 UTC

The TM attendance tracking has been very helpful to see/track when students are actually here but not in their designated class.

2025-09-17 13:08:17 UTC

culture of attendance is growing

bheim8 — 2025-09-17 13:08:21 UTC

Attendance staff like the formal guidelines for marking attendance and feel good about having the structure and the administrative support district wide

2025-09-17 13:08:31 UTC

clarity has been gained on the "consistent processes" aspect, and how attendance is to be tracked now.

2025-09-17 13:08:41 UTC

Adding language about our new guidelines to the robo calls parents get at the end of the day

2025-09-17 13:08:47 UTC

What counts as excused versus unexcused

akirchner1 — 2025-09-17 13:08:49 UTC

consistent attendance taking by all teachers

efficient systems for data

bheim8 — 2025-09-17 13:08:52 UTC

akirchner1 — 2025-09-17 13:10:13 UTC

Staff members/teachers involved with inital contact home regarding attendance

Clarity regarding picking students up early

2025-09-17 13:10:18 UTC

documented teacher phone calls at BHS from Advisory Teachers

bheim8 — 2025-09-17 13:10:43 UTC

Consistent attendance messaging

2025-09-17 13:11:07 UTC

seems to be lack of time for buildings to form an "Attendance Team" for problem solving and coordinating attendance interventions.

2025-09-17 13:11:08 UTC

...or we need more explicit guidance to administrators about how to approach that piece.

clarity for part time students example ABA part time or shortened day.

2025-09-17 13:11:46 UTC

The missedinstruction code is helping us shift our conversations with families!

2025-09-17 13:19:01 UTC

More communication with families about attendance - see it in newsletters, teacher seesaw messages, and conversations with staff and families

2025-09-17 13:19:55 UTC

Best reports to be looking at for each area of attendance

2025-09-17 13:21:13 UTC

how to set up each report to run and tracking that in a way that doesn't require us to spend precious time manipulating the data from week to week.

Getting communication to all families about changed policy and procedures

2025-09-17 13:21:17 UTC

Consistency in attendance reporting and codes across sites

2025-09-17 13:21:21 UTC

Data from 2023/2024 to 2024/2025 is showing growth. Rates did show better attendance

2025-09-17 13:21:58 UTC

Consistency in buildings

2025-09-17 13:22:33 UTC

Attendance goals in SIPs!

2025-09-17 13:23:13 UTC

How do we track students leaving early?

2025-09-17 13:23:29 UTC

Transportation was a barrier to attendance for students the first couple weeks. Is it possible to decrease the amount of time it takes to set up or change transportation? Especially for our McKinney Vento students.

2025-09-17 13:26:23 UTC

Previous teacher practices are still occurring in several of the buildings.

2025-09-17 13:37:57 UTC