McKinney Vento/Attendance Webinar by Vicki Wood

Do you have a Student Attendance Specialist in your district?

vickiwoodk12waus — 2024-05-07 20:12:53 UTC

Do you have a process in place?

vickiwoodk12waus — 2024-05-07 20:13:37 UTC

Do district employees know who to contact?

vickiwoodk12waus — 2024-05-07 20:14:02 UTC

What resources and supports do you use?

vickiwoodk12waus — 2024-05-07 20:14:47 UTC

Kennewick - do have attendance specialists, but they just make phone calls. Port Angeles - family navigators do home visits and do a lot with attendance, but do not file attendance. School buildings do that on their own. Serving comes from court/law enforcement - mostly.

rusannem — 2024-05-09 17:30:58 UTC

Blaine SD has a new attendance specialist through a grant from the ESD

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Transportation services, engagement with families

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Mt. Adams - has a student Attendance Liaison and Attendance Clerk and Home Visit Specialist that works together as a team to meet directly with families

Our office staff and teaching staff track attendance

rusannem — 2024-05-09 17:32:53 UTC

Mukilteo SD has a MKV coordinator & attendance specialist at the district level. Then each building has an MKV liaison

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Highline Public Schools has a Truancy Liaison at the district level and Truancy building contacts at all of our schools. The Truancy Liaison and the MKV/Foster Care Liaison collaborate to remove barriers for students who qualify for MKV or Foster Care services who have chronic absenteeism.

Attendance is taken by teachers, attendance specialists help with BECCA processes. Home visits, relationships with families and students, monitoring.

rusannem — 2024-05-09 17:34:25 UTC

Pasco School District has attendance Specialists. The ongoing struggle is the consistency at and in the building level.

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open lines of communication between families and schools

rusannem — 2024-05-09 17:35:20 UTC

In Sunnyside there is an attendance specialist at the High School Level.

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Student Attendance Specialist

genicebrown32 — 2024-05-09 17:40:35 UTC

Tenino School District doesn't have an Attendance Specialist but each school has an Attendance Team that meets with individual families. Our counselor is our McKinney-Vento liaison so she helps the students and families with resources they need.