WHAT ENGAGES HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS?

2013 - 2014• Established relationships with students• Talked to students about Attendance and what were their issues

surrounding their attendance• Had several students video themselves coming to school (Awarded a

Senior w/Laptop, gift cards for other two students)• Worked with Senior Counselors to develop of Wall of Fame for

Senior’s who received acceptance letters to college• Took several Senior’s to community meetings focused on PPS • Took several Senior’s to Public Hearings to speak out on RISE Teacher’s

Evaluations• Learned about Brashear’s attendance

policies/suspensions/detention/etc…• Worked on an Attendance Team with Teachers, FACE Coordinators,

Principles and staff members• Attended conferences, meetings, seminars to become more familiar

with issues and polices surrounding attendance

2014 – 21015 DESIGNED PROGRAM

• ESTABLISH MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDENTS

•TRUST• DESIGNED THE PROGRAM AS “STUDENT LEAD” – BRASHAEAR

ATTENDANCE AMBASSADORS

– LISTENED TO THEIR IDEAS– SUPPORTED THEIR IDEAS– ENCOURAGED THEIR CREATIVITY– HAD A PLAN BUT ALLOW THE STUDENTS TO DEVELOP A MORE DEFINED

PLAN

PARTNERED WITH DIFFERENT GROUPS ALREADY COEXISTING IN THE SCHOOLWORKED WITH AND INVOLVED TEACHERS, STAFF, AND ADMINISTRATIONINVOLVED PARENTS AND FAMILIES

DESIGNED PROGRAM (CON’T)

• NETWORKED – WORKED WITH COUNSELORS, TEACHERS AND STAFF TO MEET STUDENTS, THEN CONTINUED TO MEET STUDENTS THROUGH THEIR FRIENDS, VOLUNTEERED TO GO ON FIELD TRIPS, ATTENDED EVENTS, FOOTBALL GAMES, BASKETBALL, SENIOR RECOGNIATION DAYS, SUPPORTED FUND RAISERS, JOINED PTO, ATTENDED PSCC MEETINGS AND EXCELLENT FOR ALL MEETINGS

• CONVERSATIONS – HUNG OUT IN COUNSELORS SUITE AND TALKED WITH STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT, NEED AND ABOUT THEIR FURTURES

• MET PARENTS THROUGH STUDENTS

SPEAD THE WORD• POSTED BE THERE POSTERS IN THE SCHOOL BUS’S INFORMED BUS DRIVERS

ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN AND ENCOURAGED THEM TO SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN BY ENCOURAGING STUDENTS

• POSTED BE THERE POSTERS IN EVERY CLASSROOM, DESIGNED A SCRIPT FOR TEACHERS TO ANNOUNCE DURING ADVISORY PERIODS SO THAT ALL TEACHERS, STAFF AND STUDENTS KNEW WHAT THE “BE THERE” CAMPAIGN WAS AND KNEW ABOUT THE KICK OFF EVENT “BE THERE BRASHEAR” WHERE STUDENTS TOOK THE PLEDGE TO BE THERE

• ESTABLISHED A GROUP OF STUDENT “BE THERE BRASHEAR” ATTENDANCE AMBASSADORS. GROUP CONSISTED OF STUDENTS WHO VOLUNTEERED TO HELP SPEAD THE WORD AND PROMOTE GREAT ATTENDANCE THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR. THESE STUDENTS WERE ALSO REQUIRED TO IMPROVE ON THEIR ATTENDANCE AND MAINTAIN A 2.5 GPA OR HIGHER. THESE STUDENTS WERE TO NOT ONLY PROMOTE GREAT ATTENDANCE BUT ENCOURAGE OTHER STUDENTS TO IMPROVE ON THEIR ATTENDANCE.

POSTED BE THERE POSTERS IN THE SCHOOL BUS’S

KICK OFF EVENTSTUDENTS TOOK THE PLEDGE TO “BE THERE” BY SIGNING BANNERS DISPLAYED AND MANNED BY STUDENT AMBASSADORS, TABLES WERE SET UP 9TH THROUGH 12TH GRADE

MADE IT A COMPETION TO SEE WHICH GRADE HAD THE MOST SIGNATURES

FRESHMAN WON

WHAT ENGAGES HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS?

WHAT WOULD MOTIVATE YOU TO SHOW UP AT SCHOOL?

TEACHER’S WHO

REALLY CARE

A BETTER EDUCATION

FRIENDS

IF THE ADULTS WOULD

LISTEN TO USE MORE

BEING INVOLVED

IF MY PARENTS

WERE MORE INVOLVED

BETTER FOOD

PEOPLE WHO REALLY

CARE

FAIRNESSBETTER HOURS

BETTER TRANSPORTATION

IF TEACHERS DID THE

WORK THEY ARE SUPPOSE

TO DO

WHAT FACTORS STOP YOU FROM ATTENDING SCHOOL

TEACHER’S DON’T MAKE

IT FUN OR EXCITING TOO MUCH BOOK

WORK DRAMA

BEING UGLY

SLEEP

BORING

IT’S DEPRESSING,

TEACHER’S MAKE YOU

FEEL STUPID

WORKING TOO LATE

OVERWHELMED WITH TOO MANY

AP CLASSESTOO

EARLY, CHANGE

TIME TO 9

WAKING UP TOO LATE, MISS BUS

I HAVE TO BABYSIT MY SISTER AND BROTHER

STRESS

FAMILY PROBLEMS

DRUGS

GIVE THEM RECOGNITION • Created a “Be There Brashear” Wall with photos of

Attendance Ambassadors• Recognize students for “Perfect Attendance” and for

noteworthy Improved Attendance, (moving from one category to the next) Severe to Chronic, Chronic to At Risk and At Risk to Satisfactory

• Create Student Videos• Recognition:

– Award Assemblies– Photos on Be There Brashear Wall– Awarded Certificates for Perfect/Improved Attendance– Awarded Gift Cards for Perfect Attendance

PERFECT 10NEVER LATE FOR CLASS, PERFECT ATTENDANCE

AWARDED THE CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE EXCELLENCE FOR IMPROVED ATTENDANCE FOR REPORT PERIOD ENDING

JANUARY 2015 .

ANETTE ATTENDANCE

IS

ATTENDANCE IMPROVEMENT AWARD

Kimberly Safran, Principal

LAST YEARS STUDENT VIDEO

QUESTIONS???