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Pre-conference Materials
2019 Pre-conference Slide Deck
Main Conference Materials
2019 Fall Attendance Conference
Attendance Self Assessment
Attendance Success Plan 2019
School Attendance Success Planning Tool
Attendance for Success Legal Plan
SESSION 1, 10 a.m. (All workshops)
Don’t Freak Out! – What You Need to Know About the New Attendance Law
Kris Meurer, APS, Sandia VI
Mandatory – at least one team member from each team must attend this workshop (This workshop is offered at both Session 1 and Session 2, you need only attend one)
This session will examine the new Attendance for Success law and discuss how it differs from the current law.
Materials:
Don't Freak Out! Slideshow
Attendance for Success Act Work Sheet
Attendance Today, Success Tomorrow
Katherine Trujillo, AG Office, Sandia VIII
In this interactive workshop, participants will have a chance to design a dream school and to recognize what needs to be in place and what resources and services may be available for students and families in order to improve attendance.
Materials:
Attendance for Success OAG br
Mission Graduate - Attendance Outreach Powerpoint
The Pushouts – Film Preview (Follow up Discussion Workshop in Session 2)
Laurel Wyckoff, NMPBS, Sandia Ballroom
This first session will look at the documentary, The Pushouts (a follow up discussion workshop will be offered in Session 2) : More than half of Latinos grow up in poverty, and they are half as likely to have a college degree than their white counterparts. The same holds for African American students. What can schools, colleges, universities and communities do to reverse the trend and prepare our youth for careers and success? This documentary profiles a group of students who are “pushed out” of the educational system and the mentors who are shifting that outcome. The Pushouts is a CPB AMERICAN GRADUATE documentary.
How to be Attendance Avengers – The Development of a Functioning, Data Driven Attendance Team
Antoinette Valenzuela & Deanna Stevenson, Hayes Middle School, Ocotillo II
In this workshop participants will learn the importance of developing an active, diverse attendance team. They will learn how consistently looking at data can drive interventions at various school support levels ie. Attendance clerk, nursing, after school activities, etc. They will learn about specific incentives that were developed at Hayes, "Target 10". Participants will also have an opportunity to hear from student(s) and possibly a family how interventions have helped improved school engagement and attendance.
Materials:
Attendance Avengers
Lessons Learned from Incentive Program
Angela Crespin, APS, Ocotillo I
Materials:
Incentive Plan Presentation
Analyzing School-Wide Attendance, Clarissa Hastings
Helen Cordero Primary School, Sierra I
What if we educated parents and students about the importance of attendance through a school-wide approach using scientific research and data analysis? We would use brochures to educate parents about existing laws and district policies. Students would keep track of their attendance through graphing. During Parent/Teacher Conferences, the data that students collected and analyzed about their individual attendance would be presented to parents. We could have school-wide rewards like the Atten-Dance. Students might track classroom attendance to compare to other classes and to see how attendance can be improved. If we want to improve attendance, we can take a team approach to making parents and students partners to improving attendance through education and analysis of data collected and analyzed by students. Not to mention, students would be learning how to demonstrate science skills (research, collecting data, and analyzing it--and this incorporates reading, math, and writing).
Materials:
Absenteeism PowerPoint
Another Brick in the Wall Worksheet
Daily Attendance Sheet
Graph Paper
Tales from a Four-Year Attendance Team
Beth Glary, Lorilei Chavez & Jennifer Jaramillo, Bernalillo High School, Sierra II
BHS Attendance team will give a quick review of how to start and maintain an attendance team, ways to communicate to administration regarding attendance teams, creating initiatives within a school for all students, and sharing some personal insight and experience on a fourth-year attendance team.
Aligning Your School’s Attendance Support and Early Warning Systems
Chris West, APS, Sierra III
Many schools have begun to look at early warning indicators that tell them which students are at risk due to absences, negative behaviors, and/or academic issues. Participants will learn about some early warning data indicators and processes. This workshop will also give you strategies and ideas for aligning attendance team efforts and early warning indicator data into one system of outreach, interventions, and supports.
Materials:
Aligning Your Schools At
Simplifying Tier 3: Best Practices and Strategies
Magaly Tompkins and Angelica Regino, APS, Sandia VII
Mandatory – At least one team member from each team must attend this session. (This workshop is offered at both Session 1 and Session 2, you need only attend one)
This session will examine ways that school teams can strategize around Tier 3 interventions.
Materials:
Five Whys Handout
SASP Sample
Simplifying Tier 3 Powerpoint
SASP English
SASP Spanish
SESSION 2, 1 p.m. (Combination of Workshops and TED Style Talks)
TED STYLE WORKSHOPS, Sandia VIII
Lunch Lotto for Improved Attendance
Alma Arango, Hawthorne Elementary, Sandia VIII
Hawthorne Elementary Community School Council saw the need to reward students who had improved their attendance throughout the year. Lunch Lotto for Improved Attendance was then created in hopes of motivating all students to improve their attendance.
Motivating for Attendance
Ron Torres, Cari Kerkhoff & Elizabeth Martinez, Governor Bent ES, Sandia VIII
This talk will discuss some of the tools and techniques used at Governor Bent to motivate students to attend school. Examples include: 10-Day Attendance (Ticket-Tier 1), 5-Day Attendance Ticket (Tier 2), SPIN TO WIN, parking lot appreciations for families arriving on time, school wide recognition, and grade level competitions. We will put this into the format of a science board and will bring our spinning wheel to share.
It Takes a Village – Leveraging Volunteers to Increase Attendance
Elizabeth Calhoon, APS, Sandia VIII
There are many passionate hearts in our communities that help to make our schools a clean, fun, and welcoming environment for students (and staff). Together as a community, we can help students develop positive habits which will lead to success in school and life; these habits start with showing up to school every day, ready to learn. This workshop will help educators better understand how they can utilize volunteers in their school setting to combat chronic absenteeism while building a positive school culture for students and staff.
TED STYLE WORKSHOPS, Ocotillo I
Materials: This link contains slides for all three talks
Targeting Audience
John Keelin & Kendra Moulton, EG Ross Elementary School, Ocotillo I
We will walk the participants though the process we used to create our protocol and how we deal with chronic absences at the elementary school level. We will focus on how each school needs to use ideas, which are generated with their demographics in mind. We will discuss our tier intervention flow chart, which utilizes the entire staff and reaches 100 percent of our students.
Coordinating Teams to Maximize Impact
Phyllis Muhovich, Sandra Martone & Priscilla Chavez – Helen Cordero Primary School, Ocotillo I
We will share our journey in combining the efforts of the Health and Wellness Team with other critical staff members to identify highest need students and develop supports for the students and their families. Team members adopt students that they feel they can have a connection with based on the staff members strengths and the students' needs. We can share what we accomplished our first year and what we plan to change for 2019-2020.
Using Simple Family Focused Questions to Improve Attendance
Chelanna Carter, APS, Ocotillo I
Implementing a family focused questioning technique during attendance team meetings has the potential to improve communication and relationships with families. Add three simple questions to every meeting to become more family focused.
TED STYLE WORKSHOPS Tier 2, Ocotillo II
Materials: This link contains slides for all three talks
Student Voice - Bernalillo
Bernalillo High School JAG Students, Ocotillo II
JAG students from Bernalillo High School will talk about their experiences with absenteeism and discuss some ideas they think may help.
Student Voice - Rio Grande
Rio Grande High School JAG Students, Ocotillo II
JAG students from Rio Grande High School will talk about a survey they presented to fellow students and the ideas about absenteeism that they concluded from the results.
Identifying Barriers
Amelia Garcia & Amy Roble, Albuquerque Charter Academy, Ocotillo II
We utilize a FIT circle to identify barriers to our scholar’s attendance issues. Once we have identified these barriers, we work with our scholar on creating achievable goals.
WORKSHOPS
Data 101: Using the Attendance Works Tool to Better Understand Your Data
Derek Kuit, UNM CCPI, Sierra I
A step by step guide to the Attendance Works Data Tool to help school staff better visualize their data.
Don’t Freak Out! – What You Need to Know About the New Attendance Law
Kris Meurer and Heather Dahl, APS, Sandia VI
Mandatory – at least one team member from each team must attend this workshop (This workshop is offered at both Session 1 and Session 2, you need only attend one)
This session will examine the new Attendance for Success law and discuss how it differs from the current law.
Simplifying Tier 3: Best Practices and Strategies
Magaly Tompkins and Angelica Regino, APS, Sandia VII
Mandatory – At least one team member from each team must attend this session. (This workshop is offered at both Session 1 and Session 2, you need only attend one)
This session will examine ways that school teams can strategize around Tier 3 interventions.
Materials:
Five Whys Handout
SASP Sample
Simplifying Tier 3 Powerpoint
The Pushouts – Discussion Session
Laurel Wyckoff, NMPBS, Martin Flores, cast member, Sandia Ballroom
Follow-up discussion to Session 1 Workshop (includes cast member Martin Flores)
Themes for Discussion: examining reasons for absenteeism, how to help youth stay on a path to graduation via mentorship, resilience and perseverance, challenges faced by high school and college students in pursuit of a degree.
Engaging Students and Parents Through Personal Experience
Dan Frampton & Jonathan Dooley, Media Arts Collaborative Charter School, Sierra II
When we are trying to engage someone around issues of change, statistics, facts and figures rarely help us connect and lead to a discussion geared toward meaningful change. What does connect us to others and lay a foundation for change is our personal stories. When others see that we have experienced some of the same challenges or walked a similar path, we can connect, establish greater report and maybe even lay a foundation for change. By using our personal experiences of challenges we have faced and how they impacted our lives, our families and our communities we can show that we do understand what the families and youth we work with may be experiencing and how we can work together to find solutions. These relational meetings are a key concept in community organizing and can build connections in our schools and communities around the challenges that families face in regards to attendance.
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