MEASURES Presentation
- 2. About My School Latine 63.7% Black 29.3% Asian 3.2% White 1.8% Students With Free Lunch Students with Reduced Price Lunch 0 100 200 300 400 500 Demographic Information The Young Women's Leadership School The Bronx | All Girl school |557 Students enrolled 6th 18.5% 10th 16.2% 9th 14.9% 7th 14.5% 8th 13.3% 11th 12.4% 12th 10.2% Population By Grade Level
- 3. A Call To Action Element: Chronic Absenteeism for economically disadvantaged students. Baseline: The Baseline Data revealed: 475 students at the school categorized as economically disadvantaged the baseline of 53% (295 students) show above 58% percent rate for chronic absenteeism. Goal: The goal is to get the total year to date attendance percentage for students in the success mentors to 50%. Individually we want each student in success mentors attendance to increase by 5%. Defeating Chronic Absenteeism
- 4. MEET THE TEAM Director: Devon Eisenberg Assistant Director: Christina McNamee School Counselor(s): Elizabeth Rivera (high school) Sohanny Fermin (Middle School) Rossana Casado (middle school) Interning School Counselor(S): Ayanna Legare Kayla quinonez jinnet tejeda natalie romero Social Worker/Attendance Teacher: Bernardo Fernandez Our attendance team consist of :
- 5. SUBGROUP Students Enrolled Students Chronically absent Chronic Absenteeism Rate Economically Disadvantaged 217 145 66.8% SUBGROUP Students Enrolled Students Chronically absent Chronic Absenteeism Rate Economically Disadvantaged 258 150 58.1% At The High School Level: At The MIDDLE School Level: SCHOOL REPORT CARD 20-21 ABSENTEEISM DATA
- 6. Connection To Our School's Mission Young Women's Leadership School (Bronx) Mission statement: “The mission of The Young Women's Leadership School of the Bronx is to develop a community of self-confident and innovative young women, empowering them to be tomorrow's leaders, particularly in the fields of math, science, engineering and technology. We capitalize on the intellectual curiosity and creative spirit inherent in all young women as we develop life-long learners who are armed with the skills necessary to successfully complete college or any career readiness program and become productive members of society.” How does the school mission connect to my MEASURES Project? Since COVID-19 we have seen a huge shift in attitude towards attending school and I am motivated to fix that. On the journey to creating tomorrow's future leaders we encourage participation and activism within our community. With the increased numbers of absences students lack the opportunity to full perform their best. The lack of attendance also influence the motivation levels to be productive in completing courses and course work. This is hindering their ability to be college ready.
- 7. INTERVENTION Success Mentors Every chronically absent student in in our school needs the support of a caring adult to help them navigate their school experience to be properly prepared for college and career in the future. For the remainder of the school year Interning school counselors will act as Success Mentors intending to reduce chronic absenteeism in middle school and high school students who have had 5 or more days absent Since September each month and help improve these student’s attendance by at least 5%. Introduce Students and guardians to the Success mentor program through a letter and phone call For consent for participation. Have a entry meeting with your success mentor and set personalized attendance goals for the month. Set expectations and talk about the incentive they will receive at the end of the month if goal is accomplished. Meet with students every Friday to discuss any conflicts they have encountered this week. Check on progress of goal. Meet with the student at the end of the month to see if they have accomplished their goal. Reward them if goal is accomplished. If not successful talk about changes and new skills and behaviors that need to be implemented for success. Create a new goal for the Next month along with new expectations and incentives. Create new interventions that help keep the student on track to accomplish their goal.
- 8. Student C Year to date attendance is at 64% Student b Year to date attendance is at 55% Student A Year to date attendance is at 51% Starting Data
- 9. Stakeholders Unite School Counselors: Attend attendance meetings. Have small group sessions with students from each grade. Try and find commonalities in reasons behind absents. School Counselors (INTERNS): Produce resources and programs that address a student personal reason for absents. Provide individual counseling if necessary. Reach out to parents to provide support. Administrators: Support school counselors. Be aware of the students in this population who need help. Announce perfect attendance student over loud speaker. students: Reach out to a trusted adult when something comes up that may cause your absence. Talk to a school counselor about any issues you are having that causes you to be absent. If you need help ask for it, all adults in the school environment is there to help you. Use interventions to help accomplish attendance goal. parents: Support parents and explain what it means to be accountable for their child’s attendance. Parents should be checking in with their child to see if they are attending school daily. Parents should keep contact open with school officials. Work with the school’s social worker or parent coordinator to help get assistance for resources. Teachers: Track attendance of students and contact school counselors when any of the students involved in success mentors are failing to meet goal. Attendance Teacher: Do home visit to meet with parents who has been out of contact. New Visions: Provide data coverage on attendance.
- 10. Intervention into Practice 1.Set More personable attendance goals 2.Phone Calls Home 3.Wake Up Calls/ Text 4.Weekly check-ins 5.Time management workshop 6.1:1 Counseling
- 11. Student C Year to date attendance is at 68% Student b Year to date attendance is at 61% Student A Year to date attendance is at 53% Results We did not meet the goal of the MEASURES project. The school year-to-date attendance percentage is at 53%. The year-to-date attendance percentage for students participating in success mentor (Chronically Absent Students) is 45%.
- 12. Room For Improvement -Start the intervention in the beginning of the school year. - Complete more research on possible workshops. - Take a group approach along with individualized plans and goals. Message From The Principal The attendance issue is something new for our institution, post-covid we were happy to have a community of students happy to attend school every day. COVID was a horrible factor that led to lack of motivation and excitement for school. This pandemic did not only empty our hallways but deprived our students of their education and disrupted their course of post-secondary options. The success mentorship program is a great intervention plan with concrete ideas, staff, and values that this institution plans to continue to implement to decrease the rate of chronic absenteeism. Message from School Counselor Attendance is the most important factor in the success of a student’s growth academically, social/emotionally, and future. With out the proper education the students are able to meet requirements for their post- secondary choices. The increase in attendance also gives the students the opportunity for more social interaction. The success mentor program is a good start to increase attendance and expand to be something bigger.