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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
- Aug 4, 2022

Enrollment, Engagement & ADA

Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a webinar hosted by the California Association of Latino School Administrators (CALSA) alongside FCMAT and Attendance Works. They asked me how our districts are approaching attendance differently this year. My answer came down to several key recommendations:

Watch this short 2:34 clip from the webinar.

Assume nothing: Do a top-to-bottom review of existing processes and practices. In SY2019-20, attendance-taking practices blew up overnight. Look at your attendance code table. Ask school sites how they code specific absences (give them scenarios if you need to) to ensure everyone knows and uses attendance codes in the same way.
You can’t change, what you can’t measure: Data is critical to determine what is working or not working related to why students miss school. If you haven’t already, update your excused absence attendance code table to include a pandemic-related absence code and mental health absence code.
Turn the negative into a positive: Districts need to take a positive, proactive approach to instill good attendance habits. We are focused on positive communications to families-- increasing the number of communications that schools currently use to rebuild the habit of attendance. We are repeatedly talking about attendance and explaining the benefits of kids coming to school to parents.

You can watch the entire CALSA webinar with SI&A here.

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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