Post-Pandemic Addendum – Face-to-Face and Remote Access Attendance Policy

Attendance

• Socrates Prep has amended the traditional daily attendance policy to account for pandemic ramifications. Students who are attending Face-to-Face or through temporary Remote Access will have their attendance monitored daily through a digital platform. Attendance will be reviewed daily by school administration to generate overall school attendance data. The following addendum to our school attendance policy is to account for the monitoring of student attendance with variation to our operation as post-pandemic ramifications continue.
  

• The remote access option is available to our students this year who are in quarantine, sick, other dire emergencies, and/or going through mental health challenges. Currently, remote access is not available for students in the Discovery program. Having access to instruction during any period of time guarantees that our students are not left behind due to unintended reasons for why they are not on campus. Students on scholarships will only have these options available to them following guidance from one or more of the following: CDC, The Florida Health Department, The Florida Department of Education, Student Health Physicians, and Mental Health Therapist (Based on each student’s needs).

Attendance Addendum

• The purpose of this addendum is to maintain attendance required by the State of Florida, as stated in the school attendance policy referring to 6A-1.09512 Equivalent Minimum School Term for Compulsory Attendance Purposes. The post-pandemic attendance is multifaceted to capture the academic engagement and academic achievement goals for our students while taking into account the best practices for on campus and remote access and accounting for recommended screen time by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry vs. off screen student academic engagement.
  

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• Daily attendance is multifaceted, which refers to using more than one measure to capture student attendance, engagement and achievement on campus and through remote access. Teachers check in with students throughout the day. Attendance is monitored at multiple administrative levels. Parents are contacted to provide reasons for when students are unable to attend, especially in case of illness, connectivity, mental health, dire emergency, and technical difficulty to determine the excusability of the absence. Excusability will depend on the same factors listed in our general school attendance policy, with an added component for COVID related illnesses and quarantines, internet connectivity and mental health. Parent notes will be accepted for 10 excused absences. Socrates Prep will monitor excessive COVID related illnesses and quarantines, internet connectivity and mental health absences to ensure that there is no abuse of privileges for students who are attending during remote access days for reasons approved by administration. Attendance is then recorded on TADSEducate using the following data points:

1. Classroom Attendance
2. Tracking of satisfactorily completed assignments and other tasks. This tracking is recorded on LMS platforms to which administrators, students, and parents have access.

• Mentoring and Student Success classes for Face-to-Face and Remote Access target checking with students on social, emotional, and academic needs, and help students schedule a healthy, well-balanced daily regimen. These efforts help to retrieve engagement data and ensure that students have the support they need to engage in learning activities, and the resources in order to optimize this learning environment and mitigate learning loss.