POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ATTENDANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2021-2024
The Poughkeepsie City School District has developed a Comprehensive Attendance Improvement Plan for 2021-2024 to address absenteeism as a critical issue through a collaborative effort involving various stakeholders. The plan aims to decrease the percentage of students missing school days, increase school attendance rates, and implement strategies to combat chronic absenteeism. Partnerships with district offices, community organizations, and local businesses are key to achieving the plan's objectives. By fostering shared accountability and utilizing data-driven approaches, the district is taking a system-wide approach to improving attendance.
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POUGHKEEPSIE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ATTENDANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2021-2024 Absenteeism is a cross-cutting issue and cannot be solved by any one person, department or agency. There is a need to create systems and cross- departmental and infrastructure support for attendance, and hold stakeholders students, families, educators, agencies and community partners responsible for helping to reduce chronic absence. Shared accountability during the school year should guarantee the regular collection, monitoring and sharing of attendance metrics to support problem solving and resource allocation. (Attendance Works)
Comprehensive Attendance Improvement Plan The Comprehensive Attendance Improvement plan represents a school community approach to improving attendance that will incorporate strategies that district offices, schools, parent groups, and community based organizations will partner to execute. The plan outlines objectives that are designed to increase attendance throughout the district and meet the goals of providing services to the district s most neediest children and families. The plan is structured to cover a three year period that incorporates annual incremental goals that will lead to the 2024 goal. Five priority objectives have been identified through the collaborative development of the plan and represents a start to the important work of developing strategies that will address the following goals: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Decrease the percentage of students missing 20.01% or more days of school (Severe). Decrease the percentage of students missing 10.01-20% days of school (Chronic). Decrease the percentage of students missing 5.01-10% days of school (At-Risk). Increase elementary school attendance to 95% by year ending 2024. Increase secondary school attendance to 90% by year ending 2024.
Comprehensive Attendance Improvement Plan Development Partners District Offices Office of School Engagement Office of Student with Exceptionalities Department of Community Schools District Committees Attendance Task Force School Based Building Level Administrators Student Support Team Community-Based and National Organizations Children s Cabinet CM2 Attendance Works Local Business
THE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: Attendance improvements can begin in a single classroom or school, the most effective and sustainable approaches are data-driven, and are supported by strong district, school and community leadership. These key ingredients of change support taking a systems approach, and can be applied to district and state-level action and policy which are ideally working in alignment with each other.
Attendance Improvement Priority Actions Projected Implementation Timeline Priority 1 - Enhance District-wide Attendance Improvement Objective 1 Establish a district-wide attendance recognition program for students and schools. Summer 2022 Objective 2 Update the district's Attendance Policy Summer 2022 Objective 3 Develop a marketing campaign and materials to encourage consistent school attendance and high school completion Summer/Fall 2022 Objective 4 Enhance student supports to the neediest children and families (High Needs Support Plan) Ongoing Objective 5 Hiring additional staff for school support teams Ongoing Objective 6 Develop a more effective system for reporting attendance to critical stakeholders (i.e. school support team,) Summer/Fall 2022 Objective 7 Develop a district wide SEL program and Trauma Informed Care Schools Summer/Fall2022
Attendance Improvement Priority Actions Projected Implementation Timeline Priority 2 - Support and Increase the capacity of schools to meet the needs of students and parents Objective 1 Develop a referral process for students that fall into the at-risk, chronic, and severe absence category and make appropriate referrals. Summer 2021 Objective 2 Establish/Enhance targeted early intervention, targeted and individualized supports for students. Summer 2022 Objective 3 Enhance the model of attendance service delivery provided by hiring school caseworkers that deal specifically with attendance in the elementary and secondary schools Immediate and Ongoing until all positions are filled. Objective 4 Provide professional development to school staff (i.e. teachers, parent facilitators) that will enhance their understanding of the impact of poverty and trauma on attendance and school completion. Fall 2022 Spring 2023 Objective 5 Improve the district's data accuracy and accountability of student attendance. Immediate and Ongoing Objective 6 Review data to enable groups to restructure and organize further supports for schools. Summer 2022 Page 7
Attendance Improvement Priority Actions Projected Implementation Timeline Priority 3 - Engage and educate parents and students to realize students full potential to succeed in school and beyond Objective 1 Increase communication with parents and students about the importance of school attendance (i.e. newsletters, report cards, quarterly learning opportunities). Summer 2022 Objective 2 Enhance the utilization of the District's absences notification process and system to parents (Infinite Campus, Parent Square). Fall 2022 Ongoing Objective 3 Establish Attendance Conferences for parents of students that have achieved at-risk, chronic, and severe absenteeism. Fall 2022 Ongoing Objective 4 Work with PINS and Department of Social Services to ensure parents have more supports to ensure their children are attending school consistently. Fall 2022 Ongoing Objective 5 Empower student leadership teams to create a campaign to increase student achievement. (poster contest and psa contest in schools) Fall 2022 Objective 6 Expand the district's website to include material on the importance of school attendance and completion. Summer 2022 - Ongoing
Attendance Improvement Priority Actions Projected Implementation Timeline Priority 4 - Enhance School's capacity to support Attendance Improvement Objective 1 Establish as a function of a school based team (i.e. School Leadership Team, Student Support Team, etc.) a review of attendance records and non attendance cases and develop individualized and group approaches toward addressing student absences. Fall 2022 Objective 2 . Leverage school partnerships to increase attendance supports (i.e. parent/teacher organizations, community based, corporate). Summer 2022 Objective 3 Establish attendance goals (e.g. grade level/ cohort etc.) that the entire school community works to achieve. Summer 2022 Fall 2022 Objective 4 Align funding and resources to focus on continuous attendance improvement strategies. 2022-2023
Attendance Improvement Priority Actions Projected Implementation Timeline Priority 5 - Engage the Community Objective 1 Establish a District Student Attendance Taskforce made up of school community stakeholders to establish a school and community collaborative approach , provide input on district attendance and dropout prevention initiatives, leverage and align capacity and resources, and to innovate and challenge our collective approach to problems and policies that have consistently impacted student success. Summer 2022 Objective 2 Collaborate with community-based organizations on the development, implementation and monitoring of programs, initiatives and supports. Ongoing
