Attendance Trainings

• Upcoming Attendance Trainings
  
  • Dec. 11, 3:00 - 3:45 pm: Daily Attendance Practices, including Attendance Wizard Check-In (Zoom link)
  • Jan. 6, 2:30 - 3:15 pm: School Attendance System Overview (Zoom link)
  • Jan. 13: 12:00 - 12:45 pm: Universal / Tier 1 Activities (Zoom link)
  • Stay tuned for additional topics and dates!

• Attendance Training Series
  • Attendance Data Reports
    • Slide Deck
    • Recording (~23 minutes)
  • Attendance Coding
    • Slide Deck
    • Recording (~18 minutes)
  • Daily Attendance Practices
    • Slide Deck
    • Recording (~35 minutes)

• Slide deck from July Leadership Week sessions (2024)
  
  
• Attendance On-Demand Modules:
  • School Attendance Systems: An Evidence-Based Approach
    
    
  • Key Attendance Terms and Definitions
    
    
  • Important Daily Attendance Practices
    
    
  • Attendance Team and Agenda

Attendance Data

• Attendance Data Guide: explanation of various attendance reports on IC and Portal, how they differ and when they should be used 
  
  
  • Understanding schoolwide Chronic Absenteeism percentages

• Attendance Reports on Principal Portal (considered most accurate data source for attendance and chronic absenteeism)
  • School Vitals
    
    
  • Attendance - Comprehensive Report
    
    
  • Progress Monitoring: Attendance - Total, Attendance - Chronic Absenteeism
    
    
  • How to download reports from Principal Portal
    
    
• Attendance Reports on Infinite Campus
  • IC ADA/ADM reports
    
    
• Sample Attendance Trackers
  • Classroom Tracker and Calculator

 Infinite Campus Support

• IC Coding Guidance
  • IC Data Dictionary (IC codes and definitions)
  • Attendance Coding Guidance
• IC Support Documentation
  
  • IC Attendance Overview
  • IC Reports
• Infinite Campus Attendance Training
  
• Family information as to how to enter online absence requests
• District School Office Support Resource Handbook 2024-25

Legal Policies

• DPS School Board Policies related to Attendance
  
  • JHB: Student Attendance and Truancy
  • JHB-R: Regulation for Student Attendance

Truancy Resources

• Schools only need to send a formal truancy notice to families when the school has decided to file truancy. Formal truancy letters, or letters mentioning truancy, should not be sent before this point. Refer to the webpages for Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions for sample letters to use to communicate attendance concerns with families.
• Truancy Filing Process and Forms
  • High Risk Truancy Filing Considerations

Withdrawal Resources

• Student Withdrawal Best Practices
  
  
• "Drop-Out" Withdrawal Procedures for Code 06 (P-6) or 40 (7-12)
  • Withdrawal Procedures Checklist