Welcome to our website.
Meet our dedicated team of innovators, educators, managers, consultants, designers, and school site specialists. We invite you to learn more about our products and services, our history and mission, and our proudest accomplishment of all: our people. Most of the dreamers, architects and builders of this success story have been with SI&A since inception.
We are a collaborative corps of hard-working, straight talking, and service-driven individuals. We believe in education. We can help you, your students and their families achieve great things.
We were founded in 2003, and have grown from our origins as the back-office facilitator for most of California’s school districts and county offices of education, into the creator of unparalleled products, most notably The Achievement Initiative, powered by Attention2Attendance® (A2A), a software solution that decreases school absenteeism by as much as 25 percent – and works 100 percent of the time.
Before expanding outside of California, we started as a compliance company dealing with the complex and constantly changing climate of state regulations, economic recession, school funding priorities and politically shifting paradigms.
Today our signature product – The Achievement Initiative – has created a new standard. The Achievement Initiative will improve your attendance numbers, bottom line and, most important, your students’ lives.
Welcome to our website.
Meet our dedicated team of innovators, educators, managers, consultants, designers, and school site specialists. We invite you to learn more about our products and services, our history and mission, and our proudest accomplishment of all: our people. Most of the dreamers, architects and builders of this success story have been with SI&A since inception.
We are a collaborative corps of hard-working, straight talking, and service-driven individuals. We believe in education. We can help you, your students and their families achieve great things.
We were founded in 2003, and have grown from our origins as the back-office facilitator for most of California’s school districts and county offices of education, into the creator of unparalleled products, most notably The Achievement Initiative, powered by Attention2Attendance® (A2A), a software solution that decreases school absenteeism by as much as 25 percent – and works 100 percent of the time.
Before expanding outside of California, we started as a compliance company dealing with the complex and constantly changing climate of state regulations, economic recession, school funding priorities and politically shifting paradigms.
Today our signature product – The Achievement Initiative – has created a new standard. The Achievement Initiative will improve your attendance numbers, bottom line and, most important, your students’ lives.
Welcome to our website.
Meet our dedicated team of innovators, educators, managers, consultants, designers, and school site specialists. We invite you to learn more about our products and services, our history and mission, and our proudest accomplishment of all: our people. Most of the dreamers, architects and builders of this success story have been with SI&A since inception.
We are a collaborative corps of hard-working, straight talking, and service-driven individuals. We believe in education. We can help you, your students and their families achieve great things.
We were founded in 2003, and have grown from our origins as the back-office facilitator for most of California’s school districts and county offices of education, into the creator of unparalleled products, most notably The Achievement Initiative, powered by Attention2Attendance® (A2A), a software solution that decreases school absenteeism by as much as 25 percent – and works 100 percent of the time.
Before expanding outside of California, we started as a compliance company dealing with the complex and constantly changing climate of state regulations, economic recession, school funding priorities and politically shifting paradigms.
Today our signature product – The Achievement Initiative – has created a new standard. The Achievement Initiative will improve your attendance numbers, bottom line and, most important, your students’ lives.
Our Executives
Jeff Williams
Chief Executive Officer
Jeff founded SI&A in February 2003, bringing a career’s worth of business and accounting acumen, strategic thinking and background in education to the enterprise.
Susan Cook
Chief Operating Officer
Susan is a respected industry expert in line management operations, individual and team coaching, and organizational alignment to meet critical goals.
The View from the Top:
SI&A’s Executive Team takes a breath to talk about the company and its passion
Susan Cook, SI&A’s chief operating officer, is saying that when children learn the importance of good attendance in kindergarten, “It introduces them to an important concept: that showing up—for school, work and life itself—makes a difference. Studies have shown us that chronic absenteeism, even as early as kindergarten through third grade, is an accurate predictor that those kids will someday be school dropouts.”
“That’s why we created Attention2Attendance®,” says Jeff Williams, the company’s founder, president and chief executive officer. “It’s a foolproof tool for early and definitive intervention.”
Cook and Williams are sitting at a conference table in Cook’s office. While the two spend most of their workdays in offices located at opposite corners of SI&A’s expansive El Dorado Hills headquarters, each walks unannounced into the other’s office for frequent brainstorming sessions, updates, wisecracks and, as Williams says with a smile, “Reality checks. This is a fast-moving company. We truly feel that nothing less than the future of education is at stake.”
This afternoon, the two are talking about recent enhancements to Attention2Attendance® (A2A), the company’s signature software-and-service product.
“We’re pretty proud of A2A’s SaveRATE®,” Williams says. “We’ve developed an approach that shows some amazingly positive outcomes. A2A gets kids off the path of chronic absenteeism.”
“We tested and re-tested the product long enough, and at our own expense, to gather the kind of numbers—by age, geography and ethnicity—that proves its value,” says Cook. “More than two and a half million kids, as well as their parents and their principals, have been supported by A2A. And we’re only just beginning.”
Both Williams and Cook are quick to point out A2A and the company’s other product-and-service products and partnerships are the link between studies and action. “We analyze the latest research,” Williams says. “We don’t conduct the studies. Our goal is to take the information, apply our principles and get results for our clients.”
Cook says that her job with SI&A coincides with her professional background as a results-driven operations person and organizational consultant. “I’m basically a line manager,” she says. “That’s someone whose role in a company is to improve its performance year over year. When you think about it, it’s very similar to being a school principal, whose job is to improve the success rate and learning climate of his or her school every year.”
Williams says what he most enjoys about his company’s employees are “their absolute dedication to customizing solutions. They see themselves as a school district’s partners—and they know that our products and approach to service will never be characterized as one-size-fits-all.”
SI&A’s other promising products include Behavior Alert, a software solution giving administrators one-click access to notifications and reports—like the Incident Summary Report and the Teacher Notification Reports.
“We never presume to know more about a school, students or community than its education professionals do,” adds Cook. “What we do know is that in A2A, we have a product that works 100 percent of the time—one we’d like to get into every school in the United States.”
“We’d be very proud to be this country’s back office of education,” Williams says. Then he jumps out of his chair and leaves Cook’s office, heading across the building to his own office to handle his own portion of SI&A’s creative, nonstop activity.