Hello, Tanya from SERC in CT here. Thank you for providing this session today.

Hello everyone. Paul from Michigan Department of Education here.

Welcome everyone! I’m Catherine Cooney with Attendance Works. Type your questions into this chat box, and we will pass them to our speakers.

Hello from Chambersburg, PA!

Hi, everyone :)

Hello from Thomasville, NC

Hello from Temecula CA

Greetings from North Plainfield, New Jersey

Hi! Jennifer from PESD

Ben Rosen. Community Partner. Columbus, OH

Hi, from Kalamazoo, MI

Jennifer Davis, Parent Liaison, Corpus Christi Texas

Debra Moore from Pagosa Springs, Colorado

Hi! Fifi Means, Lexington, SC

Hi, my name is Adriana. I am from Santa Maria CA

Hello! From Sandford NC

Hello from FutureEd at Georgetown U

Hello! Erica Wilson (Winchester, VA)

Hi from Aiken Sc

Lisa Todd, SAP Coordinator for Palm Springs USD - trying to stay cool out here!

Hello from Chambersburg PA!

Pasadena Unified School District, CA

Greetings from Fort Myers, Florida

I work in Albany City School District

Cynthia from Lewiston, Idaho

Hello from Freeport, Il

Linda Ritchie, Minneapolis, MN

Hi, Susan Schiefer Communities In Schools site coordinator from central West Virginia.

Joanna, school nurse from Massachusetts! (high school)

Brandy Cumberland, ERSEA and Data Manger with South Coast Head Start in Coos Bay Oregon

Hi, from Las Vegas, NV

Wayne Dixon from Selma Unified

Hello everyone. Shelley Boyd, school social worker, from Nebraska. Millard Public Schools

Jenni Lefing, from June, AK with Association of Alaska School Boaards

Hi from Allegan County MI

Hello! Ian from AUSD in Riverside, CA

Crystal Brown, elementary school counselor, from King, NC!

Hello everyone! I'm Andrew, an assistant principal, with the Torrington Public Schools in Connecticut!

Hello everyone

Gail Parmer - Georgia Department of Education School Effectiveness Specialist

I am Lisa from Hollywood. Fl.

Hello from Greensboro NC

Hello from Enfield, CT

Good afternoon everyone from Trina Heidelberg, MS Dept. of Education - School Attendance Officer - Laurel/Jones County, MS

Hi All.. This is Elaine from AIU in Pgh, PA

Hello from Sturgis, MI

Tennise Lucas, High School Attendance and Behavior Coach, Albuquerque, NM

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Greetings All. Attendance Works is so pleased to partner with IEL on this webinar. I'm calling in from San Francisco CA

Hello, Felissa Johnson from Pee Dee Cap here.

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Doug Burt Auburn High Dean of Students

Hello from Saugus, CA

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Hello from Wayne-Westland Comm Schools in Michigan

Greetings all...

Hello from Reidsville Georgia

Pam Gould Hearing Officer from NISD IN San Antonio, Texas

How many people here are slated to start physical school in a week or two?

Sue Myers - Annapolis MD

Joyce Taylor, Save the Children Head Start, Forrest City, AR

K-12 counselor

Starting school Aug 24th

Bryan Crenshaw Attendance Specialist Lansing School District

Laura Campos PSJA ISD, Pupil Accounting-Social Services

Yes, please put your questions in the chat box not Q&A

Good afternoon all

Michael Drake, Mayors Office, City of Little Rock, AR

From Broward Co. Public Schools -Clerk -Attendance

Lori Darrell NYC DOE Attendance Teacher

Louise Wiener, Senior Fellow, Attendance Works with focus on pre-K and early grades

Maria deMelo, United Way Family Resource and Development Center, New Bedford, MA

Dr. Michael Gary Concentric Educational Solutions

Hi Everyone, Pam Flynn - Sussex County NJ Elementary School Nurse

Good day from Detroit.... Ines De Jesus, Attendance Works, Senior Fellow

Student Success Mentor, Putnam County Schools

Hello everyone, my name is Abril Fuentes from United Way in Denver, CO.

Janet Contreras- Youth Advocate (Neighborhood House) Seattle, WA

Hello Dawn Gerundo, Valley of the Sun United Way, Read On Avondale and Read On Phoenix.

Hello, Doris Salgado of Paterson Education Fund in Paterson, NJ

Hello all Talaya Moore Old Redford Academy Detroit, MI

Nakeia Alsup, Social Worker, Cabarrus County Schools, Concord, NC

Kathy Gonzales, Pauba Valley Elementary School - Temecula, CA PTA VP and School Site Council Member

Hi everyone, Sharon Hernandez New Visions Charter HS AMS II, Bronx, NY - School Assistant - Attendance

Jennifer Halliday, Flint Community Education Initiative

AGREE #bettertogether

Hi All- Melissa DeWitt, Special Education Teacher; Waukegan, IL

Hello all! Cassandra Sonco, Quality Assurance Coach for Think Together, Compton Unified School District

Valerie Boka, Pathways to Potential Success Coach, Beaverton Elementary, Beaverton, MI

Hello K. Wilson attendance coordinator at New Visions Aim 1.

Teresa Beeman --Head Start Family Service Coordinator--Spokane, WA!

Natalie LaRochelle-Eades, School Counselor, Baltimore County Public Schools

Diane Diamond AP Valencia, CA TK-6

Emma Wan, San Diego County Live Well Schools Initiative; San Diego, CA

Hi! Jenny Gadd, Literacy Coach, Pittsburgh Public Schools

Geortez Jackson Westhills Elementary School Attendance secretary Bessemer,Al

Hi all! Teri Wimborne, Mission: Graduate/United Way of Central New Mexico, ABQ

Attendance Coord./Mental Health Navigator, Appleton, WI

Hello from Oak Lawn Community High School in Illinois!

Welcome everyone! I’m Cathy Wolfenden with Attendance Works. If you have questions, type them into the chat box and we will pass them to our speakers.

Hello. Joyce here from Helms Middle School, San Pablo, CA

Hello: Yolanda Eddins - NPFE Director of Community and parent affairs

Here is the link to the IEL letter: https://iel.org/blog/iel-supports-parent-leaders-call-healthy-equitable-and-quality-education

Hello Debora Ringgold from Henrico County Public School in Richmond, VA

Christine Colling, Harvard Elementary school counselor, Tacoma, WA

Ross Davis, REgional Capacity Builder, Oregon

Amanda Klackner, Washougal School District, Washougal, WA

AW Coronavirus: Resources for Educatorshttps://www.attendanceworks.org/coronavirus-resources-for-educators/

Hello everyone, Julliet Coxum, Elementary School Principal, Poughkeepsie New York.

will these slides be available?

Yes, we will post the slides and a recording of this webinar within 72 hours at:https://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/webinars/

New Paradigm Loving Academy: http://nplovingacademy.org/

Jacqueline Dungey, Principal of New Paradigm Loving Academy, Detroit MI jdungey@npfeschools.orgNew Paradigm Loving Academy: http://nplovingacademy.org/New Paradigm charter management organization: http://npfeschools.org/

What is CAO?

Chief Academic Officer

chief academic officer

What is CAO?

Type your questions into this chat box, and we will pass them to our speakers.

What does CAO stand for? Person of Contact??

@Faith chief academic officer

Thank you @Catherine

What type of Videos were sent to Students and Parents?

Not sure, but my guess is SSS stands for Student Support Services

Student Support Specialists (SSS)

What did your weekly videos consist of? Instruction, SEL??

What percentage of students ended up being actively engaged in the online platform?

what funding did you receive?

And how did you determine "actively engaged"?

Hello all, Curtis Smith Jr - Attendance Officer, Princeton City Schools, Cincinnati, OH

@Faith, @Allisen, @Paige, I’ve moved your qs. To the panelists.

Dojo is a phone app that allows parent and teachers to communicate.

was this the funding that charter/private schools received?

Thank you!

How did you report student attendance for families who had technological challenges?

i.e. used paper packets

Thank you @Catherine

What types of data did the wellness tracker include?

Center for Supportive Schools: https://www.supportiveschools.org/

Peer Group Connection: https://www.supportiveschools.org/peer-group-connection

Excellent

@Faith, my pleasure!

Can PGC be done virtually?

Can the PGC curriculum be modified for Elementary students?

sounds like the model can be implemented as a virtual course.

Angela Duran, Campaign Director of the Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level ReadingArkansas CGLR: https://ar-glr.net/

Type your questions into this chat box for Angela! We will pass them to our speakers.

https://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/webinars/

How difficult is it to bring connectivity to rural area? What are the major roadblocks?

Learn about the 3Es Angela mentioned: https://www.attendanceworks.org/resources/transition-guide/the-3-es-restorative-practices-to-ground-transition-planning/

How is your DOE determining how to record attendance @Angela?

How can we get resources/possible solutions/best practices to the participants? After 8700 in person wellness checks over 2 months we have learned a lot from families and students?

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Yubo Zhang-areas that we had trouble were dead zones-no cell reception, nothing, which occurred in the rural areas, especially remote areas.

is there a template for the wellness checker. sounds much better than what I am pulling our data from now

thank you! great info as always...I’ll be looking out for the slides and recording !

Perfect thank you

AWESOME!!!!

Thank you for the attendance tracker template!

Great thanks!

Thank you..

@Joanna The Attendance Works new Guide and Tools are live! Present, Engaged and Supported:A Guide to Planning Transitions to School find it here.https://www.attendanceworks.org/resources/transition-guide/

We have an application that allows us to track wellness checks and phone calls

Yes please!

Thank you @Hedy!

In Arkansas, a student is absent if the student is not:1. present for onsite instruction provided by the district,2. participating in a planned district-approved activity, or3. engaged in scheduled instruction at an off-site location, including remote learning.

See this Arkansas Department of Education Commissioner’s Memo for more info - http://adecm.arkansas.gov/ViewApprovedMemo.aspx?Id=4447

For mentoring resources, check in with MentorNational’s mentoring resource center: https://nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org/

Also, as staff roles change in the fall, take stock of who else might have more time to help with relationship-building and outreach.

https://www.mentoring.org/program-resources/mentor-resources-and-publications/brothers-keeper-success-mentors-initiative/

Parent Teacher Home Visits has developed a toolkit for maintaining connects in a time of social distancing http://www.pthvp.org/toolbox/stay-home-stay-connected/

@lori - thanks for adding this link for mentoring!

From Ohio, "Attendance Considerations for Remote Learning Plans" http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Reset-and-Restart/Blended-and-Remote-Learning-Comparison/Attendance-Considerations-for-Remote-Learning-Plan

I have been advocating for the development of virtual after-school clubs

there are a lot of great links in the chat, can they please be collected and shared. Thank you@

Also Parent As Teachers, which does homes visits in the birth to age 3 space has pivoted to conducting these visits all across the country using virtual platforms, which much success - https://parentsasteachers.org/virtual-service-delivery

centered around student interest. Also, building a model that will bring students an dfamilies into a virtual space to meet their new teachers.

Reopening guidance from New York: https://www.regents.nysed.gov/common/regents/files/2.%20Recovering%2C%20Rebuilding%2C%20and%20Renewing%20the%20Spirit%20of%20Our%20Schools%20School%20Reopening%20Guidance.pdf

https://sites.ed.gov/nsaesc/national-success-mentors/

Love it @Dungey!

Yes, Concentric is conducting student wellness checks in 5 districts. the website is

www.concentriced.org

The Attendance Works new Guide and Tools - in pilot form - are live! Present, Engaged and Supported:A Guide to Planning Transitions to School. Find guides for elementary, secondary and districts here.https://www.attendanceworks.org/resources/transition-guide/

All wellness data is conducted on an App that is shared with all stakeholders.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1US0fUcikBpLaeC2AM80-OS6QiVwrPWgf/view?usp=sharing

Our Expanded Learning Program went virtual for all of our schools. They also created a curated virtual program for the summer. Here's the link to the virtual summer program through our Expanded Learning program. I thought their approach was really great. https://sites.google.com/greendot.org/stayconnect-ed/home

Thank you @Michael!

@faith if you would like to talk call me @ 2677676019

Kaiser Permanent also has a Playbook for Health School Communities: https://thrivingschools.kaiserpermanente.org/get-inspired/coronavirus-response/schools-reopening-playbook/

Thank you, this was very helpful!

Thank you!

Thank you! This was great information.

Thank you so much everyone for the resources and suggestions!!

Thank you. Very informative.

The Attendance Works new Guide and Tools - in pilot form - are live! Present, Engaged and Supported:A Guide to Planning Transitions to School. Find guides for elementary, secondary and districts here.https://www.attendanceworks.org/resources/transition-guide/

I signed on a bit late but the portion that I heard has been very helpful. Thank you.

https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/the-distance-learning-playbook-grades-k-12/book275865

Concentric Educational Solutions Wellness Check Framework: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1US0fUcikBpLaeC2AM80-OS6QiVwrPWgf/view?usp=sharing

Check out our Attendance Awareness Campaign website:http://awareness.attendanceworks.org/

Thank you! Grateful for Attendance Works!!

We’ve used the Wellness Check Framework to complete 8700 wellness checks

Download this year’s Attendance Awareness Campaign Key Messages, revised for the Covid era: https://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/toolkit-2020/what-are-the-key-messages/

Great information. Thank you.

This is great thanks!

Thank you for the wealth of information. It helped me to listen to this so that we are being proactive in the planning that will be taking place in the upcoming weeks.

The new Guide and Tools - in pilot form - are live! Present, Engaged and Supported:A Guide to Planning Transitions to School. Find guides for elementary, secondary and districts here.https://www.attendanceworks.org/resources/transition-guide/

Great information! Thanks!

We will post the slides and a recording of this webinar within 72 hours at:https://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/webinars/

thank you

Thank you everyone! This was a great session!

Thank you everyone!

Please know that we are committed to continuing to update our guides and materials as we learn more in this ever changing environment!!!

Thank you so much to everyone for the webinar and helpful/useful practices you've shared. We appreciate it in DE.

Excellent Presentation

Thank you!

Thank you so much.

Thank You.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Can you put the survey link in this chat so we can copy and paste it?

Thank you everyone. These are great resources.

Thank you All!! Great Work!!!

NYC Department of Education

Very informative, will be taking this back to my org. See you on August 19th!

Thank you for such an informative webinar!

Great Presentation

Attendance Teacher.

Thank you.

Here’s the link to the survey! Please let us know how we can improve:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/data-plus-relationships

Thank You!

Thank you for the great information!

Great information! Thank you all for your time and for sharing all the wonderful resources. I now feel a good sense of direction for the upcoming school year. :)

Very informative!! Thanks for the support.

Check out the Attendance Playbook, by FutureEd with AW, updated for Covid19 : https://www.future-ed.org/attendance-playbook/

So many of us have been affected by COVID-19...we've had families also loose family members to COVID. Yes, the trauma is real

Thanks again. Everyone have a great day.

@Valerie, So true. Thanks for mentioning this.

Links to the slides and newly released transition guide are on our website: https://awareness.attendanceworks.org/resources/webinars/

Please take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/data-plus-relationships

Thank you for the mention!

Thank you.

Thanks again.

Thank you so much!

Develop your strategy with the new Guide, in pilot form: https://www.attendanceworks.org/resources/transition-guide/