Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Focus: Attendance
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: Walt Whitman students will maintain a cumulative attendance rate of at least 95%.
Objective / Benchmark:
Achievement Objective: Student attendance growth will increase steadily each quarter;
tardies will decrease steadily each quarter.
Benchmark: Minimally, the student attendance rate at Whitman will be 95% as documented
by the cumulative student attendance report.
Interventions / Strategies:
• Perfect Attendance Awards will be given during quarterly awards assemblies
• Weekly Hornets Bucks to be spent in the Hornet Rewards Store will be awarded to
students who have been in attendance and on time for the whole week.
• Free ”Breakfast in a Bag” is served in the classroom to each student until 8:10 am.
• Attendance will be recorded on quarterly report cards.
• Ongoing PBS attendance incentives
Instructional Technology Integrated Strategies
• SchoolConnects will notify parents via phone message of their student’s absence each
day.
• Attendance will be monitored using data reports generated by PowerSchool.
• Administrative designee will create a table & graph each quarter of the targeted
referral areas to be shared with the staff.
Procedural specificity will be detailed in individual teacher lesson plans.
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