Lewiston Elementary

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Lewiston Elementary

• Adam Baker - Administrator
• Jill Wanner - Building coordinator
• Team members Terri Gailey, Janet Petersen,
  Teresa Swainston, Anita Gerber

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Intervention

• Tardy Reduction Implementation
• 1. Concerns regarding a.m. tardies
• 2. Data collected
• 3. Parents informed of No Tardy plan
• 4. Students taught expectations for being on time
• 5. Verbal reminder at breakfast
• 6. a.m. intercom announcement after warning bell
• 7. Daily data collected
• 8. Weekly data collected
• 9. Daily sticker for no tardies
• 10. p.m. announcement recognizing daily successes
• 11. weekly class recognition and treats
• 12. Monthly NO TARDY PARTY

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Rationale

• Data was taken to determine if tardies were
  indeed a problem
• The school wanted to increase amount of students
  arriving on time.
• The data focused on the High Risk Students.
  Tardies decreased for the High Risk Students
  moving several to the At-Risk Group.

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Data indicators

• The team used data collected from the school
  system to count the number of tardies daily,
  weekly, and monthly.

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Trends and changes in data indicators after
intervention

• High Risk Students had 68 tardies in September.
• Comparisons were made month to month.
• We needed to disaggregate our data to give more
  information on who the High Risk students were,
  and if they were walkers or bus riders.

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Implementation Description

• After data was collected and shared with the
  Staff, they realized how many students were
  actually arriving late to class.
• Positive reinforce such as an Auction and
  sharing data with the staff has kept them
  supportive of the intervention.
• We employed traditional sources of data such as
  attendance records.
• We customized our data to give us specific
  information on the High Risk Student.
• The intervention will continue through the year.
  We learned that sometimes there are factors
  which you cannot control. For example, some
  parents will bring their children late to school
  no matter what you do. Therefore, we will not
  continue this intervention next year.

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Most recent data

• As of April, the number of High Risk students who
  are late to school/class has dropped from 25
  students with 7 or more tardies to 13 students.
  The number of tardies are decreasing.
• This tells us the intervention is working for
  most of the students who were arriving late.

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General Discussion

• Our process when smoothly this year.
• We did not achieve our goal to reduce all
  tardies, but we did help those students who were
  at the top of the triangle.
• We learned that sometimes there are factors which
  you can not control. For example, some parents
  will bring their children late to school no
  matter what you do.
• The UBI journey is a lot of work and takes a lot
  of time. If we can help any of the top of the
  triangle students, our time is worth it.