Many actions can be incorporated into schools' ongoing responsibilities

• Review SIRS data to determine chronic absence rates within the district, schools, and classrooms.
• Establish attendance teams responsible for reducing chronic absence.
• Provide attendance teams access to attendance data and identify students who are chronically absent.
• Examine school policies and modify policies that contribute to absences unintentionally (e.g., 28 day seat time, suspension, pre-k attendance requirements).
• Train school staff so they collect attendance consistently across schools in the district, increasing the reliability of attendance data.
• Build a school culture of attendance and implement a prevention foundation.
• Use the Student Support Services/Pupil Personnel infrastructure to provide support to chronically absent students and their families.

Some actions not be part of school norms may require a bigger "lift"

• Requires “will” from school leadership to effectively modify the school climate to support a culture of attendance.
• The demand for student support services may exceed the school’s supply/budget.
• Schools will most likely restrict the campaign to the school boundaries since resources for a community-wide campaign are limited.
• Schools have access to confidential information about students but the underlying reasons for chronic absence may pertain to information not accessible to schools (e.g., family) and may be difficult to access.