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Board hears attendance plan aligned with Ohio House Bill 410; district to use Panorama for attendance intervention plans
Summary
District staff outlined an attendance flowchart modeled on HB410 requirements, clarified A‑ and B‑event hours thresholds, and said Panorama will host attendance intervention plans and monitoring; staff emphasized personal outreach and daily monitoring to reduce chronic absenteeism.
The board on Aug. 11 received a district attendance update that codifies practices across buildings, aligns procedures with Ohio House Bill 410, and uses Panorama to document and monitor attendance intervention plans.
Missy DeAngelis, who led the attendance presentation, said the attendance committee chose to mirror the behavior flowchart’s tiered approach so practices are consistent across all buildings. Staff emphasized secretaries and front‑office personnel as frontline contacts, daily accuracy of PowerSchool attendance records, and a personal, asset‑based first call to families when a student is absent.
Legal thresholds and process: DeAngelis reviewed statutory thresholds used under HB410 and the district’s operational steps: 38 hours (A‑event) triggers a formal A‑event letter to families; 72 hours unexcused triggers a B‑event (the transcript uses the term ‘b event’), which requires the school to schedule an attendance intervention team (AIT) meeting within a few weeks. If attendance does not improve, state law allows filing in juvenile court after the district’s intervention timeline has been followed; presenters described that filing as an option, not an automatic requirement.
Why it matters: Presenters said chronic absenteeism predicts declines in achievement; one building that strengthened personal outreach improved its chronic absenteeism rate by about 12–15 percent. Staff said small daily tardies and partial‑day dismissals accumulate into lost instructional minutes and count toward the hour thresholds.
Operational steps: The district will use Panorama for attendance referrals and intervention plans so plans and progress monitoring are centralized and reminders are generated automatically. The district also plans to encourage consistent daily monitoring by principals and use tools (PowerSchool visualizations and Panorama dashboards) to spot building‑level trends. Staff named school leaders and a cross‑district district leadership team as responsible for ongoing monitoring.
Family communication: The district will deploy ClassDojo districtwide as an additional family communication channel (pre‑K–12) and advised staff not to use personal phone numbers to contact students; presenters said ClassDojo and school messaging apps allow staff to contact families without giving out personal phone numbers.
