Stakeholder Roles | Chicago Public Schools

CPS strives to support students and their specific needs. By working together with these stakeholders, we can increase student attendance and decrease chronic absenteeism and chronic truancy.

Who Are The Stakeholders? What Are Our Roles?

Get your student(s) to school every day
Get your student(s) to school on-time
Check that your student(s) are prepared
Encourage your student(s) to come ready to learn
Ask questions and know your student(s)'s school
Stay informed with what's happening with your student(s) and their school experience
Attend important events at your student(s)' school
Check Parent Portal regularly to stay updated on your student(s)'s progress
Know you are our partner in your student(s) success

Expect your students every day
Expect your students to be on time every day
Have structures in place to respond to tardies, absence, and good attendance
Be excited about the learning that will happen each day
Build positive relationships with students and their families that promote student accountability (behavior, attendance, academics)
Use your school as a support to handle attendance hurdles
Take action when students are tardy or absent
Update Gradebook regularly and on time so families can stay informed as to their student's attendance and grades
Know you are our partner in your student(s) success

Be prepared to greet students everyday
Start the school day on time
Let no distractions take the school off the goal of learning
Ensure there are procedures and protocols for all attendance needs, including but exclusively, tardies, cuts, truancy, absences
Maintain and be consistent about discipline procedures so student behavior is managed beyond suspensions
Have a clear, consistent and public attendance policy
Reinforce the attendance policy regularly and apply it consistently
Support teachers with resources for struggling students with attendance issues
Provide engaging clubs, teams, and activities that appeal to multiple student interests
Establish a viable attendance team to respond to attendance needs, and to be proactive on data trends
Review and share data for timely evidence-based decision-making

Let no distractions take the school off the goal of learning
Ensure there are procedures and protocols for all attendance needs, including but not exclusively, tardies, cuts, truancy, absences for your schools
Ensure that fair and consistent discipline procedures exist and are supported at your schools so student behavior is managed beyond suspensions
Emphasize a culture of communication for maximizing student attendance
Reinforce it regularly, and apply it consistently
Support schools with resources
Guide and train attendance teams to respond to attendance needs, and to be proactive around data trends
Ensure your schools review and share data for evidence based decision making
Review data and communicate with Network schools to support strategy and action development

Be prepared to support all students and their efforts to get to school
Unite with the purpose of having all students be successful and present at their neighborhood school
Help support efforts to have no distractions that take the school away from the goal of learning
Be proactive in the community about helping neighbors get students to school
Report concerns and offer solutions to support student growth
Partner with the schools and neighborhood families to create a culture of attendance in and out of the school building
Step forward and provide opportunities for students to be rewarded for their success

Let no distractions take the network off the goal of learning
Ensure that all networks have established attendance procedures and protocols for all schools
Ensure that all networks have established fair and consistent discipline procedures and that said procedures are supported so student behavior is managed beyond suspensions
Emphasize a culture of communication for maximizing student attendance
Review data and communicate with networks to support strategy and action development
Support schools with resources and streamline access to said resources
Guide and train attendance teams to respond to attendance needs, and to be proactive around data trends
Ensure networks and schools review and use data for evidence based decision making
Monitor and ensure all stakeholders are held accountable

Let no distractions take the schools off the goal of learning
Support a culture of communication for maximizing student attendance
Promote interagency cooperation to maximize student, family, and community engagement in public schools
Support schools with resources and city services
Partner with the district to streamline processes to best serve students and their families
Monitor and ensure all stakeholders are held accountable