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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
- Dec 16, 2020

Top Five Attendance Data Points to Track Right Now

Below are the Top Five Data Points you should be tracking. This list is by no means all that a district or school should be tracking, but if you haven’t looked at your attendance data in a while: You need to start somewhere. I suggest you start here.

Top Five Attendance Data Points to Track Right Now

Daily attendance rate for in-person instruction This is the most familiar to all. Teachers take attendance daily and the attendance office or student information system calculates a daily attendance rate. Compare this point in time day over day, month over month, and year over year.
Daily participation rate for distance learning (DL) Tracking participation feels nebulous and should not. Participation, like taking attendance daily, should use uniform and consistent tracking methods across all schools. If your LMS provider does not already, require them to capture login dates and times, time-outs due to inactivity, and logout dates and times. We highly recommend analyzing your participation data similar to your attendance data. Keep in mind that SB98 60% participation should be your minimum standard.
Total Absences by grade level Many districts are seeing higher than normal rates of absences in lower grade levels, which traditionally have good attendance. Cohort tracking is particularly useful to see when students start to go off track.
Total Absences by subgroup Black, brown, and lower socioeconomic students are disproportionately impacted by distance learning. Attendance is an education equalizer. Kids, who show up for school, do better than kids who don’t. It is imperative that you are measuring and monitoring subgroup attendance to implement the necessary interventions and supports.
Chronic Absence rate Absences for any reason are bad for kids. Chronic absenteeism is a major indicator that students are off-track and is associated with a cadre of negative educational outcomes.

Tell me what you think. Email me at AskErica@sia-us.com. Your questions and comments may be the subject of a future blog post.

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