00:14:17 Cecelia Leong: Welcome everyone! How are you today? 00:15:28 Sue Fothergill: Good afternoon everyone! Welcome. 00:17:04 Martha: Martha Bustillos, St. Vain Valley SD, Student Attendance and Engagement. 00:18:02 Craig Musser: Craig Musser, Phoenix, Carl Hayden High Attendance Committee Chair and English Teacher Extraordinaire! 00:18:12 Kelly Kaminski: Kelly Kaminski - Beloit, Wisconsin 00:18:24 Chauwanda Southerland: Chauwanda Southerland, School Social Worker 00:18:25 Tiffany Scott: Tiffany Scott, LCSW- School SW in Charlottesville, VA 00:18:31 Jessica Miller: Jessica Miller - Beloit, WI - School Social Worker 00:18:35 Martha McHugh: Martha McHugh-School Social Worker, Beloit, WI 00:18:36 Shannon Murray: Shannon Murray, Dropout Prevention Coordinator for Guilford County Schools (NC) 00:18:39 Annie J: Annie Jones-DuPage County IL 00:18:39 Vel Cole: Velvet Assistant Principal, VA 00:18:46 June Haught: June Ann Haught, Marion County, WV, Assistant Principal, West Fairmont Middle School, 5-8 00:18:48 Colleen Murphy: Colleen Murphy, LCSW, School social worker Boulder Elementary, Boulder Montana 00:18:51 2 Jessie Jimenez - SPS: Jessie Jimenez - Truancy - Seattle Public Schools 00:18:52 Darrell Brown: Darrell Brown 00:18:52 Ricardo Dominguez: Ricardo Dominguez- Family Liaison- Illinois 00:18:54 Yvette Hernandez: Yvette Hernandez, West Chicago District 33- Family liaison 00:19:21 Penny Munoz: Penny Munoz, Family Liaison, WCED33 00:19:28 Nikita W.: Nikita Whitehead, Guilford County Schools, NC School Social Worker 00:19:35 Belitza Contreras-DeLeon: Belitza Contreras-DeLeon, Family Liaison, West Chicago SD#33 00:19:36 aldean: Antonious Dean - Attendance - Seattle Public Schools 00:19:54 Adriane : Adriane Butler Charlottesville City Schools 00:20:00 KimBerly Purnell: Kimberly Purnell Dist.Parent/Foster/Homeless Liaison at MHPSAS 00:20:15 Vicki Trimingham: Vicki Trimingham, Family and Community Engagement Resource Teacher, Elk Grove CA 00:20:30 Stacy Nemetz: Stacy Nemetz-School Social Worker, Beloit, WI 00:28:26 Rob Barelli: Rob Barelli, Dean of Students, Moreland MS, San Jose 00:31:50 Mary Lynn Westfall: Develop mentor programs teachers-students to monitor the at-risk students. 00:32:12 Deanna Holman: Weekly attendance meetings with key staff as well as PD on the importance of attendance in reaching academic goals. 00:32:19 Heather Snodgrass: Create grade level teams led by members of the leadership team to analyze data and help develop ideas to help combat attendance issues. 00:32:32 Penny Munoz: Continue to meet and collaborate in how to support and have meaningful outreach to support parents. 00:32:56 abuchanan: We have a 5-10 minute engagement meeting every day that involves all the core teachers and paras to determine which students engaged the day before. Our core students are also assigned advisory classes and they contact the students in their advisory who are not attending. Our attendance team of three people meeting weekly to contact those who are not attending. The principal and I do home visits for those who cannot be reached. 00:36:56 Cecelia Leong: Appreciate how you have students as part of the response to students who did not attend, abuchanan! Are you in a MS or HS? 00:40:18 abuchanan: Alternative school that is primarily high school with one class of self-contained middle school students 00:40:52 tmaxwell: Hello everyone! Joining in a little late from WV, been on the phone with a parent. 00:41:07 Cecelia Leong: Glad you made it, tmaxwell. :) 00:41:16 abuchanan: Sorry….I meant to say our core teachers have advisories……I mistyped. 00:42:05 Cecelia Leong: @abuchanan, what has been the impact on the students who are reaching out to those who missed? 00:42:46 abuchanan: That was an error in typing. I meant to say teachers, not students. 00:44:07 Vicki Trimingham: It isn't real school 00:44:13 Lizzette Soto: That it is not mandatory 00:44:20 Alia Herrod: misconception: if I don't do it today, I can always catch up, and then it becomes huge snowball of makeups. they get out of habit of doing school daily 00:44:30 Shanae Woodward: ^ Yup 00:44:44 Harper K: agree with Alia 00:44:48 Kelly Kaminski: “DL just doesn’t work” - door closed before considering supports 00:44:49 Vicki Trimingham: It doesn't matter if I don't log in for class 00:44:53 Alia Herrod: i can do later today, i can do it at night. but it never happens 00:45:06 Alia Herrod: yes, exactly 00:45:09 Shanae Woodward: “We don’t do technology” 00:45:15 tmaxwell: "you" can't take attendance if "my kids" aren't coming in to the school 00:45:29 Brenda: it doesn't count 00:45:42 Kelly Kaminski: I have to work - can’t sit next to my child to make them learn 00:45:49 C. Southerland: It's too difficult to find the work. 00:45:51 Alia Herrod: coming to class is a waste, gets my child frustrated. can watch recording and pass forward. but they miss opportunity to connect with other kidsm with teacher, to ask qs, etc 00:45:55 Shannon Murray: my kid will be passed along 00:48:18 Shannon Murray: @AliaHerrod, Yes, I too heard of the student being frustrated, so the parents tells them and school that they aren't going to put their child's mental health at risk 00:51:17 Alia Herrod: Shannon - i am in online school and we require live class attendance. but parnts with kids with certain conditions - idk, autism, other, - if class goes too slow, or kids chatting, it distracting him, they opt out for recording. but they miss communication, asking questions, etc. then parents complain about their student being isolated. well, get them to live class might be a very good solution. there is always a solution - like taking notes, taking snapshots of slides, doodling, etc - so they are not bored. but live class is very important. kids on IEP - they are required to be in live online class. this is how they get services. 00:51:44 Cecelia Leong: I;m pretty sure you have it wrong. 00:54:03 Cecelia Leong: Or are they missing all morning classes or all afternoon classes? 00:56:43 Cathy W,: Caring Conversations Worksheet (for breakout groups): https://www.attendanceworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Caring-Conversation-Worksheet-v3.pdf 01:16:03 Shannon Murray: teachers 01:16:05 Brenda McPherson-Fry: Teachers and admin. All school personnel 01:16:05 Vicki Trimingham: Teachers 01:16:08 Penny Munoz: All parties involved, and that work with students and families. 01:16:08 Michael Reedy: All parties involved 01:16:13 Angie Nieto: Anyone making phone calls regarding attendance to families 01:16:13 Kristi Napoli: staff 01:16:13 C. Southerland: teachers 01:16:14 Stacy Nemetz: All parties 01:16:15 Kelly Kaminski: I could definitely see this as a team approach 01:16:17 Jessica Miller: All parties 01:16:20 Brenda McPherson-Fry: shift the discussion from blame to assistance and concern 01:16:22 Adriane : all involved 01:19:05 Penny Munoz: lack of communication and follow through 01:19:12 tmaxwell: no follow-through by the school can create distrust in the parent/student 01:19:13 C. Southerland: Time 01:19:15 Jessica Miller: Lack of follow through 01:19:17 Kristi Napoli: Time and staff to follow through 01:19:22 Brenda: distrust 01:19:37 Michael Reedy: incorrect information 01:20:14 tmaxwell: must identify the roles of the staff so each person knows who is accountable for the follow-through 01:20:57 Shannon Murray: YES TMaxwell!!!!!! 01:21:40 Colleen Murphy: Do you mean social services etc? 01:21:43 Cecelia Leong: Yes! Great comment. All do work but not everyone does the same thing 01:25:49 Stacy Nemetz: Churches 01:26:26 Tiffany Scott: Our food banks provide 100lbs of food, we have churches distributing on regular schedules in the community, local small restaurants are supporting the community as well 01:26:59 Tiffany Scott: We also have a local agency that focuses on nutrition and health awareness and they do door deliveries for families monthly 01:27:42 cp souther: Out of the Garden Mobile Market Pantries visits schools for Food Giveaways 01:30:25 cp souther: home visits 01:30:26 Sue Fothergill: x-box network 01:30:28 Vicki Trimingham: porch visits 01:30:35 tmaxwell: home visits, social media, DHHR can provide updated contact info if we don't have current info 01:30:37 Kristi Napoli: Met with families and developed an action plan 01:30:39 Jessica Miller: A lot of home visits/texts 01:30:40 Penny Munoz: We conduct home visits. 01:30:43 Michael Reedy: House Call Team! 01:31:07 Alia Herrod: change messaging - personal, clear, facts, social comparison on where student stand on attendance and compares to students in their class 01:31:24 Alia Herrod: parents started respondin 01:33:31 Alia Herrod: truancy courts- true, but this si last resort when nothing works, and it can be effective when parents are in denil and not cooperating, refuse to do anything 01:34:41 Cecelia Leong: Agree with you Alia 01:34:41 Shannon Murray: A county in NC has teen court that will hear truancy as an intervention before court 01:35:55 Cecelia Leong: Anything you can share about this example in NC would be appreciated, Shannon! 01:36:13 tmaxwell: We have Teen Court in WV as well....run by peers 01:36:27 Shannon Murray: Their's is too 01:36:48 Alia Herrod: yes, Shannon. in our state judge doesn't accept any cases for teens, so only for parents of students under 13-14 01:37:02 Alia Herrod: so we need to do smth for teens 01:37:30 Shannon Murray: Yes, I'll speak, but can I talk rather than type 01:40:29 Cecelia Leong: I'd like to hear that but let's let Sue finish first. 01:41:33 tmaxwell: https://wvteencourt.org/ 01:41:54 Cecelia Leong: Thanks, tmaxwell. 01:44:13 Colleen Murphy: Will we end on time as I have to be somewhere at 2:30? 01:44:27 Cecelia Leong: Yes! 01:44:56 Colleen Murphy: Is there a link for the peer court? 01:45:13 Cathy W,: Class evaluation link: https://app.upmetrics.com/data_collector/ckf2oltbqlt8k0759tfdbfybj 01:45:40 Colleen Murphy: Thank you so much~ 01:45:54 Adriane : Thank you! 01:46:00 Alia Herrod: who can we ask if we still have questions - especially on interventions - maybe clarify some things in the resources you provided 01:46:41 Cathy W,: Class evaluation: https://app.upmetrics.com/data_collector/ckf2oltbqlt8k0759tfdbfybj 01:46:58 Vicki Trimingham: Thank you!! These trainings are always so helpful. :-) 01:47:01 draths: Thank you for all of the great information and ideas!