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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.

Erica Peterson
- Mar 16, 2021

Coming soon to a County Office of Education near you

Effectively shut down this year, the CA Dashboard had been the “yardstick” data districts used as a comparative measure for planning and goal setting purposes. While always reporting a year behind, the Dashboard won’t be updated with chronic absence data until 2022.

This data vacuum has led SI&A to fill the gap. Earlier this year the California Department of Education asked SI&A to run a preliminary chronic absence analysis. (Charts below.) We surveyed 33 districts across the state comprising 350,000 students, first in the fall when the initial request was made, and then again at the end of December 2020.

Both reports have prompted webinars and media articles but more importantly, and central to our mission, requests from county offices of education to walk their districts through the report as they begin the work updating their LCAPs and building their reopening plans.

So today’s post is an official invitation to all CA county offices of education, email me at AskErica@sia-us.com to schedule a 30 minute web-presentation of the statewide attendance data patterns and chronic absence trends during an upcoming countywide LEA meeting.

During the meeting, I’ll share both large scale and more specific data trends including chronic absence rates by grade, district enrollment size, ethnicity, Free & Reduced lunch status, English-language learner status and more.

Schedule your data delivery today! Email me at AskErica@sia-us.com

Addressing Chronic Absenteeism Requires An “All Hands On Deck” Approach

Addressing Chronic Absenteeism Requires An “All Hands On Deck” Approach

SchoolStatus’ Attendance Solutions Demonstrate Positive Impact Across the U.S.

SchoolStatus’ Attendance Solutions Demonstrate Positive Impact Across the U.S.

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Erica's Important Message for Addressing Absenteeism on Scripps News

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