• Create a welcoming school climate
• Build positive relationships
• Create a culture of attendance
• Support family engagement
• Deliver high-quality instruction
• Teach attendance expectations
• Communicate with families when students are absent
• Collaborate with families and offer support
• Track and monitor attendance
• Recognition of good and improved attendance

• Early outreach
  • Letter, phone calls, emails, and meetings
• Social workers and counselors create attendance plan with families and students to address and remove attendance barriers
• Staff coordinate to get students engaged in school community
• Academic interventions
• Mental health and behavior supports 
• Mentorships

• Personalized plans that include steps to graduating
• Home visits 
• Create attendance contracts
• Coordinate with outside agencies to help meet student and family needs
• Last resort-Legal intervention to provide ongoing support
  • File DCF Report
  • Send District Statute Letter
  • Determine Truancy Steps
  • Under 16-Truancy Review Board
  • 16 or over-Truancy Court
     

1. Log in to Skyward 

• Go to www.usd305.com 
• Click on Skyward Family Access 
• Enter your username and password 
• If you don’t know your password, click “Forgot your Username or Password?” 
• If you don’t know your username or email address, contact your school for assistance

2. Make sure you are on the Family Access home screen 

• The top banner should say Family Access 
•  If it does not, click the drop down next to the house icon 
• Select Family Access

3. Navigate to the Attendance tile

4. View student attendance 

• Year totals listed under Current Year Attendance Totals 
• Attendance is listed by date 
• If you have questions on your student’s attendance, please contact your school

If your family is facing challenges that make it hard for your child to attend school regularly, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your school’s social worker. We understand that life can bring unexpected difficulties, and we’re here to help. Together we can find solutions and support your child’s success.

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