The role of schools in supporting their students' consistent attendance is vital in helping young New Yorkers to be successful in school and beyond. Schools can impact attendance in different ways:
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Managing, Getting, and Using Data
(i.e., strong systems to capture attendance data, including standard lateness
procedures)
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Helping to Address Underlying Causes
(i.e., focus on school safety, security, climate, and personalization)
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Trying New Practices for Success
(i.e., new emphasis on attendance across the school and increased outreach to parents and community)
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Attendance-Related Mandates
School officials can contact their Children First Network Attendance Manager for support with student attendance and related ATS procedures:
You can look up network contact information by using the ATS DCON function.
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new! Share Your Attendance Success Story -
Networks, Attendance Teachers or schools are invited to submit stories about how they improved attendance—throughout a school or for an individual student.
Following are key links for attendance resources for schools:
Attendance page on the Principals' Portal for resources including the TDG code guidelines, Planning Interview documents, Present and Accounted for newsletters, Mayor's Initiative information and "How to" guides.
(See a Good Way to get to Principals' Portal when logging in from a private computer.)
ATS Web-Connect
from DOE network computers,
from private computers
DOE Wiki for ATS technical advice
OSYD's Web applications including the Consolidated plan (Attendance Plan), OORS, and SOHO
Historical attendance data (month by month (PAR data)
Daily school-wide attendance
Present and Accounted for Attendance Newsletters:
• Issue 5: Monitoring Daily Attendance
School-wide and student-level ATS reports and tips.
• Issue 6: Favorite ATS Reports
Checklist of "go-to" ATS tools for monitoring attendance and planning action
at schools.
• Issue 16: Sustain Daily Attendance Data Practices
How do schools make sure that they receive credit for every student who is
present each day?
. . . more available at the Attendance page on the Principals' Portal
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Visit the SchoolEveryDay webpage.
Mayor's Interagency Task Force: Initiative on Truancy, Chronic Absenteeism, and School Engagement
WakeUp!NYC, a multimedia campaign aimed at reducing truancy and chronic absenteeism was introduced to all NYC schools in 2011 through the Mayor's Task Force Initiative. With WakeUp!NYC, any of your students and families can receive morning wakeup phone calls with pre-recorded morning wake up messages from sports, music and television celebrities.
Visit the
WakeUp!NYC webpage on the Principals' Portal for information on scheduling morning wakeup calls for your students and families.
ARIS Parent Link for helping parents get access to their child's data
Guidance Portal for resources for students and families
Present and Accounted for Attendance Newsletters:
• Issue 12: Travel and Pupil Transportation
Learn more about the connection between pupil transportation and attendance,
and use related strategies to reduce chronic absenteeism.
• Issue 15: Asthma Overview
Provides tips on how schools can help students with asthma and help their
families to manage the condition, and to improve attendance.
• Issue 18: ACS and Attendance
Learn more about ACS's preventative services and community programs to
help the families of children with attendance issues. Learn ways to connect
to local services for families. Guidance on educational neglect is also provided.
• Issue 19: Supporting the Attendance of Students in Temporary Housing
Offers tips on ATS reports for STH data, as well as strategies to support
consistent attendance in school.
. . . more available at the Attendance page on the Principals' Portal
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Attendance Works a national and state initiative that promotes better policy and practice around school attendance
Present and Accounted for Attendance Newsletters:
• Issue 7: Mayor's Task Force on Truancy and Absenteeism
Summary of the project and what it is showing us about efforts to address
chronic absenteeism.
• Issue 10: Attendance Committee Best Practices
How may the efforts of a school's attendance committee be focused for
individual student success and school-wide statistical gains? A few tips to
consider.
• Issue 11: Attendance Incentives
Recognize and celebrate improved or perfect attendance. There are ideas for
activities and extras students might appreciate. Also a few leads for identifying
sources of funds or other resources.
. . . more available at the Attendance page on the Principals' Portal
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Chancellor's RegulationsTransfer, Discharge, and Graduation Code guidelinesWorking Papers and Child Model Permits
School Calendar and
Calendar Change Requests Attendance page on Principals' Portal
(Resources include TDG code guidelines, Planning Interview documents, Present and Accounted for newsletters, Mayor's Initiative information and "How to" guides.)
Present and Accounted for Attendance Newsletters:
• Issue 13: 407 Part I: Basics
Review all the basics on the 407 process, as well as related ATS reports and
codes.
• Issue 14: 407 Part II: Types of 407s and Expected Action
What are the reasons a 407 is issued? What are the expected actions of the
school in order to resolve the case?
. . . more available at the Attendance page on the Principals' Portal
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(Back to Student Attendance webpage)