Attendance System
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DPS Guidance
FYI Documents:
- School Attendance Team Guide and Best Practices, updated for 2024-25
- Glossary of Attendance Terms
- Guidance on Excused Absences
- Attendance Team Roles, Responsibilities and Limitations
Tools:
- Attendance Team Meeting Sample Agenda
- Sample slide deck for presenting attendance information
- Tiered Checklist for Students with Low Attendance
Daily Attendance Practices
To ensure that attendance systems are set up to successfully address attendance, they must be grounded in Daily Attendance Practices. These practices are critical to ensure that data and other attendance habits are accurate.
- Make sure that attendance is taken within the first 10 minutes of each class.
- Ensure that all teachers take and update attendance and tardies consistently throughout the day.
- Document and clear out attendance voicemails and parent online absence requests within the first hour of each school day.
- Follow district guidance around excused absences.
- Use tardy and absence codes according to district guidance. Use the code in the IC Data Dictionary that most closely matches the parent reason for absence.
- use the Kiosk *OR* the Attendance Wizard Check-In / Check-Out features to accurately record students who arrive late or leave early.
- Monitor student attendance during the day, especially after transition periods. Use the IC Daily Attendance Processing feature.
- If a student who was present earlier in the day is now marked absent, inform the school leadership team about the student.
- Consider the use of the Hall Pass feature in IC to limit student passes out of class.
- School leaders, counselors, and front office professionals already have the ability to create and manage passes, view students on pass and administer passes. SSPs, paraprofessionals and nurses share these capabilities. Once passes are created, teachers can assign them using the roster feature within IC.
- Ensure that EVERY absence gets a response, including excused and unexcused absences.
Tiered Attendance System Approach
- Attendance Playbook (from FutureEd and Attendance Works)
- Tiered Approach Overview & Definitions (from Attendance Works)
Effectiveness Rubrics
School Exemplars
- School Attendance Team Guide and Best Practices, updated for 2024-25
CONTACT
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Office of Schools
Emily Griffith Campus 8th Floor
1860 Lincoln St.
Denver, CO 80203Dr. Cori Canty
Improvement Planning & Attendance Manager
cori_canty@dpsk12.netQuestion?
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OFFICE HOURS
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Office hours occur every Friday. Use the hyperlink to sign up for a time. In-the-moment sign-ups are available. Other days and times may be available.
Attendance Systems
Dr. Cori Canty
Usually 2:30-4 p.m.Tier 3 Interventions and Support
Scott Romero
Usually 1-3 p.m.