The Why
The person(s) directly responsible for a student's attendance is...
Who is the student's caregiver?
This is the first place you go to check student attendance.
What is Reports?
Each SW is responsible for maintaining this percentage of attendance in his/her grade level.
What is 96.5%?
The responsibility of taking and documenting tardies falls on this person
Who is the grade level social worker?
This incentive engages families from the very beginning of the school year.
What is the monthly perfect attendance certificate?
The school's vision for attendance is to promote excellent attendance...
What is at the elementary level?
The acronym for SIS stands for this.
What is Student Information System?
Attendance reports are due to the Principal and AD after each what?
What is each trimester?
Without doing this, you cannot fully confirm the child's attendance in SIS.
What is calling the family?
This is another type of certificate that can be an incentive to students and families.
Good attendance in elementary will lead to good attendance
What is in higher grades?
This is where you go to enter the reasons for students who are absent.
What is 'Enter Attendance'?
By taking daily attendance, SW also monitor for this aspect of the teacher's evaluation?
What is timeliness and accuracy?
If you do this weekly, you will better track attendance progress.
What is create the attendance report?
This is the definition of Zero Hero.
What is a student who has not been absent and has not been late?
Maintaining good attendance can be considered this type of behavior
What is learned behavior?
SIS offers these two attendance percentages on the Reports page.
What is 'Today's Attendance' percentage and the 'YTD Attendance' percentage?
These are the three factors that most strongly impact the attendance score on a SW's evaluation.
What is the trimester report, attendance meetings and the attendance percentage?
This is the first step a SW should take when a student is approaching 92% attendance/tardies?
What is send the family an attendance letter?
What is the Zero Hero Breakfast?
According to the video, how many times more likely to fall behind in reading, writing or math are students who miss two days of school per month
What is five times more likely?
While this attendance category does not directly impact a student's attendance percentage and is not as closely monitored, it is just as important to notice patterns in this area
What is 'Early Departures'?
This is the maximum number of points that a SW is able to receive on the evaluation for attendance.
What is three?
Participating in this ensures that families understand the importance of their child's attendance at TEP.
What is a family meeting with the principal and/or the AD?
In Spring 2017, the kindergarten SW used the Attendance Improvement Dress Up Day incentive to encourage chronically absent students to improve their attendance percentage by this amount.
What is 5%?