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ABSENCES & LOST INSTRUCTIONAL TIME

We know that learning can be interrupted when students or their teachers are absent. Yet the focus is often only on student attendance — especially daily attendance rates, which can affect school funding. But what about staff absences?

Frontline Research & Learning Institute data from the 2013-2014 school year revealed that nearly 30 percent of employees requiring a substitute are chronically absent, compared to only 14 percent of students.

Easily Track Daily Attendance

The first step to reducing the impact of teacher absences on student learning is to reliably track daily attendance for staff. This is crucial — in fact, it’s so important that Rhode Island specified chronic absenteeism (for both students and teachers) as a key indicator for predicting progress toward goals in their state plan.

 

So how do you track teacher attendance and ensure that your people are in the classroom as much as possible? With Frontline Absence & Time, employee attendance management is a breeze. You get access to real-time employee absence data, enabling you to keep up with trends and build proactive strategies.

 

Our solution gives you insight into how professional absences, like those for teacher professional development, are affecting absences. The numbers may surprise you: the Frontline Research & Learning Institute shows that for employees requiring a substitute, a full 21% of absences were for professionally-related reasons.

 

Once you have insights like these, you can plan ahead so that you can provide educators with plenty of professional learning opportunities and support, without causing a substitute shortage.

“One of my goals which coincides with increasing student attendance is increasing staff attendance. I have been greatly utilizing the Frontline attendance data to learn why our average daily staff attendance rate is lower with some types of staff members than it is other types of staff members. What particular days are they taking? When are they taking those days, and how is this impacting the education of our students?”

– Dr. Richard Labbe, Superintendent, Sayreville Public Schools

Quickly Fill Classrooms with Qualified Substitutes.

The second step is making sure that when teachers are out of the classroom — whether due to illness, PD or anything else — a qualified substitute is ready to step in and carry the baton. Frontline’s Absence Management system helps you find the right substitute with skill-matching and preference lists. And teachers can make sure that substitutes have the resources they need to continue student learning by attaching notes, seating charts, lesson plans and anything else to the absence itself.

 

Plus, you can be sure that every substitute working in your classrooms has the skills they need to succeed with our substitute training course library.

  • Ensure that every substitute knows how to behave professionally, manage a classroom, give lessons and work with a diverse student body.
  • Let substitutes access online trainings directly from the Absence Management system.
  • Track substitutes’ progress as they work through the interactive courses on their own time.
  • Reduce substitute “incidents” and “do not use” requests.