In this webinar, we explore why traditional attendance communication breaks down, where districts lose time and visibility, and what a more proactive model looks like. You’ll get an exclusive first look at a new approach to attendance engagement, built directly into the communications platform trusted by over 5,000 districts.

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Emily Simon: Well, everyone. We're so excited to have you here today. We're gonna go ahead and jump on in and get started.

So a few housekeeping items before we dive in. We are recording today's webinar and we will be sharing it out with everyone who registered. So if you have to hop early for a conflict or a call, totally understand, you'll get the full recording by email tomorrow along with any additional resources that we share out today.

Use the chat to engage with us with your reactions and comments and your real time like, wow, or that's amazing. And this in my school district, we're doing X and here we're doing Y. We love to have that engagement in real time through the chat. But I do wanna point out in your Zoom toolbar, there is a Q and A feature. And so really encourage you to use that Q and A to for your questions that you have as we go through today's webinar, and we'll do our best to either answer them in real time or follow-up with you after today's webinar for additional information.

And like I mentioned, you'll receive today's recording and any resources that we mention by email.

So thanks for already jumping in and sharing where you're joining us from. If you haven't yet and you just joined us in that chat bar, please share where you're coming from.

I myself am from Potomac, Maryland. As I mentioned, I'm looking out the window to still ice and snow on the ground. It has been too long of cold temperatures here for me.

And shortly we hope to have Drew joining us. He was having some technical difficulties this morning. All of you can empathize I'm sure with that. Drew is our Vice President of Product and he's coming to us from Columbus, Ohio.

So I'm Emily Simon, Director of Product Marketing here at Apptegy. I've been with Apptegy for a little over a year now, and I'm really excited to have you all joining us today to have the first look at our very new Product Attendance Pro. And as we discuss kind of different ways that as a nation, we can start tackling chronic absenteeism.

I was a classroom teacher before I turned Product Marketer. And so I know firsthand that attendance is often the first sign that a child needs additional support. But I also know that actually reaching those families for that child can be challenging and getting the context behind the absences and the specific support that the child or family needs can sometimes be even harder. And so it's really why I'm excited to share more with you today about AttendancePro.

So pending where exactly you're joining us from within the education ecosystem, you may or may not be surprised to learn that last year alone, more than eleven million students, so that's nearly one in four were chronically absent, meaning that they've missed ten percent or more of instructional school days.

And when we think about what those numbers represent, we have to take a step back and really think about the bigger picture and that three sixty degree impact that that's having.

So first we know that attendance affects academic outcomes. We know that it is a signal for that child's lifelong trajectory, but we also know that it has operational implications. So from the attendance workflows completed each morning by your front office staff, to even that child's teacher who's having to rearrange that small group activity absence.

And now today we're even seeing financial implications.

Many states are moving to a model in which their district funding is directly tied to that average daily attendance rate.

So if you're in one of those states would love your thoughts there in the webinar chat about your perspective about the funding being connected to that attendance rate.

But what's even more telling and I think really interesting for today's conversation is when we take a step back and we look at the chronic absenteeism trends by school year across the nation. So we can see pre COVID we're sitting at that fifteen percent total, but since COVID in that twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two school year, we saw that massive spike.

And what's happened since COVID and I know you guys feel this on a daily basis is we're seeing states and districts really rally and place more emphasis and priority and focus on those attendance rates. We're seeing states and districts move to adopting more notification systems, more outreach, more email templates, more threshold interventions, more email campaigns, more reports, more data manipulation, more sharing.

But yet even with all of that additional investment, time and energy, look at those rates, they're still higher than they were post COVID and we're barely seeing them move year after year.

And what's more telling is when you think about what's behind even getting those minimal decreases, the staff time, the capacity, all of those systems, all of those layers of support, we're not seeing necessarily the impact or the decrease in rates that we would have assumed for all of that time and energy.

And so in all of our conversations with districts across the country, when we start talking about attendance, we're hearing a common theme. And so again, in the chat, let me know if you're feeling the same.

Attendance today feels like an endless cycle of reaction.

You're reacting and supporting one student, you might be able to get them out of that chronic absenteeism rate, but as soon as you do, another child slips into that threshold.

I agree, I see Hal in there, thank you Hal.

All right, so before we go a little bit deeper, I wanna pause and really hear from you all and what your realities are looking like today. So I'm gonna launch a poll. It should pop up on your screen. It's short answer so you can type directly in the box about what is your biggest challenge that your team is facing with attendance today?

And so since this is a short answer prompt, I'm gonna give us a little bit more time here to get our brains moving and sharing your perspectives.

Oh, in the chat, Jeff shared some good perspective that he agrees that it feels reactive and it's probably discouraging, right? Of all of this upfront messaging and proactive support that you feel, but it's still a lot of reactionary results. I love that perspective.

Yep, Sam, we're hearing that in our conversations as well. Post COVID there is this shift in families that it is easy for my child to miss school, there's virtual schooling, they'll get their makeup packet. We're gonna go off to Hawaii for a week.

Yep, that's something we're definitely hearing.

All right, let's take about one more minute to get your perspective into the poll on your team's biggest challenge today.

I still see answers coming in. So I'm just gonna wait until there's a law and then I'll end the poll and we'll look at what everyone said here.

Yep, Luca sharing that one of the issues is families understanding the value in attendance, not seeing those full set of consequences.

Oh, and Ronald with the truth, competition for enrollment, absolutely.

All right, so let's take a look. I'm gonna go ahead and end the poll here, see the results.

Let's see.

Okay, so now let me get my screens rearranged here.

I want to hear another answer from you all. So let me launch this one.

How much time do you and your team spend today on manual attendance processes per school building. So the key here is per school building. So at one school, what is your estimated or assumed amount of time that's being spent on attendance?

About fifteen more seconds to get your response in.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and end the poll here.

Sharing the results. So we are looking at most of you are spending one to two hours per school building on attendance, depending on how many school buildings you have in your district, that could be a big chunk of time. We're seeing the next almost a tie between less than an hour or two to three hours and then just a small subset of you three plus hours.

The amount of time, I'm just looking at the chat. So Debbie sharing the amount of time versus how long that time is drawn out throughout the day is the challenging part. Yes, speaking the truth, it's that chase. The chase of hunting down that family, that doctor's note, that context and detail, absolutely.

Okay, so let's just keep diving on in here.

So what we're hearing and you all validated that in your short answer responses for what challenges you're facing day in and day out is that the reality of today's workflows, we're sending robocalls and one way notifications. Even if they're automated, they are one way and families can't actually respond.

So to Debbie's point, that time is drawn out because you're waiting and hoping that that family calls you back or you're continuing to call and leave a voicemail for that family or an email to that family.

And you're really at the mercy of that family engaging back with you of taking that initiative to call, to email, to walk into the school office building, to share the information and the documentation that you need to complete that attendance workflow.

We're also seeing that our districts are having a challenge with those interventions happening too reactively. So kind of as someone said earlier, Jeff, in the chat of like, it still feels like a lot of reactionary results. So you have all of these threshold programs in place, but by the time those interventions starts, the absences for that child have already piled up and it's actually harder to reverse that pattern, right? Thinking about some of the chat that we saw around families say don't understand the consequences. It feels easy for their child to miss a school day without those earlier interventions, it's gonna be harder to break those patterns.

And then lastly, that time that you're spending, we know that your teams are overwhelmed. They're spending hours on that reactive chasing manual work, calling, collecting notes, manual coding into the system, data cleanup, data manipulation. And that really doesn't leave a lot of time to be proactive in those other areas.

I'm going to pause for a second because we do have Drew who's now joined us. So I want to give Drew a minute to say hello to everyone.

Drew Doman: Hello, everyone. Thanks for bearing with me with some Zoom issues, but it's fantastic to be here. I'm Drew Doman, I lead our product team at Apptegy and incredibly excited to show you Attendance Pro today.

Emily Simon: Awesome, thanks Drew. So yeah, he's gonna walk us through the system here in just a moment.

So if these three buckets here capture your reality, give me a thumbs up in the chat, give me a reaction, let us know what you would add, what you would change when you think about what the reality of your attendance workflows are today.

Because I wanna spend a few minutes talking about what we're learning in the attendance space. We talked about post COVID there's a lot of new focus and energy on chronic absenteeism which brings a lot more additional research and industry studies on absenteeism. And we're starting to learn some new things.

The first being that attendance is affecting more students. Attendance is no longer confined to a small group of high need students. We're seeing more students miss more school in those smaller increments across every grade and demographic.

There was a research study out of Texas Tech that we've linked in one of our blog posts that that we'll share with the recording by email that basically showed tracking a group of students over a set amount of time. It started out with fifty percent having really strong attendance, but then by the end of the study, than one in three still had strong attendance rates.

We're also seeing that traditional thresholds are too late. So when you think about the definition of chronic absenteeism and that as a threshold, it means that the child has missed ten percent or more school days.

And that threshold was initially created as a reporting metric, not an intervention signal. But yet what we're seeing is that because our staff capacity is limited, we're saving the most intensive intervention support for those children who have already reached that threshold, meaning that we're not actually offering interventions until those patterns are already established. And we know that it's harder to change that pattern later than it would be if we could earlier.

We're also starting to see that effective early support requires context, right? We can't just know that a student is absent. We need to know why and how we can help.

And that it's that context that is going to turn that early detection and allow you to effectively break that absenteeism pattern before it gets too established.

We also now know that two way SMS works.

Two way SMS meets families where they already are on their phones. It's quick, it's low friction, and it's easy for them to reply than it is to pick up a phone or to initiate that phone call back or that email.

And we have found in research that there is typically a higher response rate for two way SMS attendance notifications versus your one way or the robo calls. And we're also seeing that two way SMS can reduce chronic absenteeism rates by up to seven percent.

And so when we look across all of these new findings that we're starting to see come out, what's uncovering and unfolding for us is we have a big opportunity here to actually support chronic absenteeism by focusing on the eighty percent.

So let's break that down. We know that chronically absent students consume the majority of your staff time, but they only represent a total small fraction of those absences, that one in four.

So it's really, if we think about the other students who are not yet chronically absent, maybe they've only missed a day here or a couple of days there.

If we can intervene and support them earlier before they cross that chronic absenteeism threshold, and before those patterns have hardened, we actually have the biggest opportunity to make that change and impact.

So I'm going to pause there for a moment. And before we dive deep into AttendancePro and Vijay, hopefully I said your name correctly, we'll show you exactly how the two way SMS works in just a moment. And so before we dig in there, I wanna pause and really get kind of philosophical here on a Tuesday. In the chat, I want you to share with me, if you knew today who would be chronically absent in your district next year, what would you do differently? And I want that shared in the chat so we can see everyone's responses coming in.

If you knew today who would be chronically absent next year, what would you start doing?

Or what would you have your attendance teams start doing?

Creating an early intervention plan with incentives, reach out proactively, celebrate when they are in school, determine why they're gonna be absent. I love that Kevin, really digging into, is it transportation? Is it food insecurity? What is happening?

Hold the meeting, really build that relationship, education, targeted interventions.

I love these, a lot of similar trends here.

More education to figure out the why.

Try to get them involved in an activity, give them a reason to go to school.

Beautiful. And so what I'm seeing as I read your responses in the chat is that you wouldn't delay. You would start interventions today. You would start building those lines of communication with your families.

You would start offering support. And really what I saw across a lot of them is you would actually dig into the why and ensure that you're offering that targeted intervention that supports the why those children are absent. And so what I'm really excited to show you then is to formally introduce Attendance Pro because it is designed to do exactly what all of you were sharing there in the chat. So Attendance Pro is our newest attendance solution here at Apptegy, and it's going to automate two way text message conversations with families the moment that an absence occurs.

So as soon as that student is marked absent rather for the day in elementary school or for a period in your secondary levels, families will receive a text message in their preferred language notifying them of their child's absence.

And that is where a lot of one way existing solutions stop today, right? Families get that notification, my child was absent, and then they have to initiate the phone call back, the email back, or stop by the office to share why. Now with Attendance Pro, families can reply immediately to that text message in their own language to share why their child is absent, to share that doctor's form, or to provide the additional context that you're looking for.

What's even more is the AI Attendance solution is going to guide that conversation through tailored follow-up prompts to uncover the true context behind that absence. Well, why did Johnny miss the bus again today? Or what's going on with Sally? I'm hearing that she's having anxiety a lot lately. What do you think is attributing to that? And it's not only going to capture that context for you, it's going to code the absence and capture the documentation and upload it effectively for you as well.

What's more is it can escalate any of those high risk special cases for immediate support as needed. For Sally, who's having anxiety, it can connect that thread and that conversation directly to the school counselor for additional support.

And it's going to offer early insights and patterns and trends by students, school, and district to ensure that you're able to offer the full three sixty degree support that's needed.

And so really when you think about the power of this, it's automating the manual repetitive work that is drawing out that attendance timeline every single day as one of you shared in the chat. And it's going to really get that context from families. And what's more is it's opening those lines of communication within your threads around what would you do differently? A lot of it was about talking to the families and this is where that can start.

So I'm super excited for you to get a very first look at Attendance Pro. I'm gonna stop sharing my screen here and I'm gonna let Drew get set up to actually show you it in action.

Drew Doman: Amazing. Thanks, Emily. Here it is.

This is Attendance Pro. Everything that Emily's been talking about, this is the platform itself, and we're so excited to show you all of the features and functionality that live in Attendance Pro.

Where we landed is the inbox. This is the heartbeat of the product. Here is where we integrate with your SIS data, and as soon as a student is marked absent for the day, the attendance agent is automatically going to send a text message to that guardian. In this example, here you see the student Nell was absent, and therefore Tory, the guardian, received a message saying, hey, I noticed Nell was absent today. Can you help us explain why?

Attendance Pro doesn't just speak English. Attendance Pro speaks the language of your guardians. And so it's going to translate using your SIS data in the native tongue of the guardians to make sure that we're able to engage with all of the guardians across the district. In this example, you see Sarah, the student and Gary, the guardian, they speak Spanish.

And so we reached out to Gary to also understand why Sarah was absent. And I'm gonna send a response. This is just a demo. I I speak English, so I'm gonna send it back in English, but I'm gonna text back.

And what you'll see here live is instantly, the attendance agent is automatically starting to process that information. It is customized. These attendance agents are customized to your district's attendance policies, attendance codes, and also to your brand to the look and feel and how you want Attendance Pro to communicate with guardians. So right now, it is processing this absence.

It is saying, okay, I noticed that, Sarah was sick. It is starting to look at the attendance codes and the reasons and all of the policies within the district, and it's processing the right response.

And so while it's coming up with that response, it's already recorded that absence.

And so it's able to then code that using your attendance codes. So you can add that why as to why the student was absent. You understand not just the fact that it was excused or unexcused, but was this related to an illness? Was this related to other incidents? And you see that the attendance agent has already responded to that message and engaged with that guardian. If I'm an attendance secretary, I'm able to translate that into English. If I don't speak a foreign language, and I'm able to see and understand how the agent is in guardian is engaging with the guardian.

Now, most situations will be there's an illness or we had an appointment, but Attendance Pro also shines when there's a more urgent and visibility required situation. If I scroll up here, you can see yesterday, Sarah was also absent and the guardian responded saying that Sarah was bullied.

Attendance Pro will automatically flag that message so that a principal, an attendance secretary, a guidance counselor knows where to focus their time and attention when they're using Attendance Pro.

They can then create an intervention and forward the conversation to the relevant staff member to make sure that they see that conversation and they can begin any specific action plans, whether it's regard to bullying or bringing in guidance counselors to make sure that student is getting the help, the support, and the assistance that they need.

What you can also do is you can see all of the historic absences here.

And so what Attendance Pro does is it's automatically codifying each of those absences. But if you need to make an adjustment as an attendance secretary, you're able to easily edit those codes and update them so that this data can get back to your source of truth and you have clear visibility as to why students are absent.

Also, Attendance Pro shines when it's receiving not only text messages back from guardians, but it also is able to receive documentation in the forms of doctor's notes, signed letters from guardians. In this instance, you see all of the documentation that has been provided by student. And in this case, it's saving the doctor's notes so that we can reference that later when it comes to truancy or other matters that require certain documentation for absences.

Attendance Pro also has triggers. As Emily noted, it's incredibly important to be proactive in addition to handling the day to day absence reasons for each student.

Attendance Pro can customize certain attendance triggers or conversations to proactively engage guardians when students reach certain amounts of absences, and that's completely customizable. In this instance, we're able to email a guardian to say a specific student has been absent more than five days. But if if your policies of your district need to send it after one day or two days or three days, that can be customized in order to get in front of those guardians and let them know at certain points more serious matters, will come about when your student is consistently absent.

This is where Attendance Pro balances being reactive and proactive to meet the demand of curbing chronic absenteeism.

The last thing I'll show is the dashboard.

And this is meant to give district administrators, principals, and other senior leaders within the district a bird's eye view as to what is happening within each school in the district to see how attendance is playing out. You can look at attendance patterns to understand, are we seeing spikes in certain days, in terms of absences? We can look at that in terms of total absences, absence rate. We can also look at severity categories. This is where, as Emily said, we cannot only understand who is already chronically absent, but I can look at who's at risk, who is on the precipice of being chronically absent, and I can create action plans, communication strategies, guardian engagement to make sure that they do not cross that threshold to be chronically absence.

I can also understand which absence codes of my attendance policy are being used most often. Is there a flu outbreak in the middle school? I would be able to see that attendance code for that sick happening within the middle school. I'm able to see that trend using the analytics within Attendance Pro and that bird's eye view that we've designed.

All in all, we are so excited to show you Attendance Pro today. We hope that you'll see how it balances being able to engage guardians, how it saves your staff a ton of time using our AI attendance agent and being able to give your district administrators and teams the bird's eye view to truly understand what's happening in your district with regards to chronic absenteeism.

Emily Simon: Awesome. Thanks so much, Drew.

So I'm sure a lot of you have questions following that demo from Drew. I can encourage you to continue to drop them in that q and a module in the Zoom chat. We have Nick who has joined us. He's a solutions engineer here at Apptegy.

He's trying to answer these in real time as they come through. And if we have additional time at the end of today's webinar, we'll also address some of these live for you. So I wanna just quickly recap what you just saw from Drew in terms of Attendance Pro, right? It's going to offer that two way real time SMS conversation.

And what's beautiful is that's automatically happening based on when that child is marked absent.

It's going to then go through that entire workflow for you, right? It's going to engage that in that conversation with your families, capture the reason, it's going to code it, it's going to enable you to see that documentation and it's going to offer even those campaigns. And I loved what a lot of you said when we asked, what would you do differently today if you knew who was gonna be chronically absent? And a lot of you landed on this idea of education. And so what's beautiful about Attendance Pros is it has that campaign element, that education element built in. And as you saw from the demo and drew, those templates are pre made really beautiful and you can further customize them as need be.

And then lastly, it's going to serve up those early warning insights. And it's not just the data of the codes. It's not just the data of how many children were absent today or last week. It's going to give you that context behind the absence. It's going to show you those trends. It's going to show you where the children are across those various thresholds. And it's gonna be that insight that allows you to respond proactively.

Drew, if you wanna move ahead to the next slide here.

So in closing, I wanna share what I've been hearing from districts who have already started using Attendance Pro and it's more to them than an attendance tool. And I think that's really powerful, right? It wasn't that they adopted Attendance Pro to mitigate their attendance workflows or even to improve their attendance rate. Those were the secondary outcomes that they were looking for. What they found in that first big win is the quality and the speed of communication that it unlocks with their families.

So right now, most attendance teams are spending hours every morning doing that manual work, as you mentioned, calling families, chasing down those notes, entering codes. With this automated workflow from Attendance Pro, your staff will get that time back, but more effectively, that time from absence to answer is immediately decreased because families get that automated text that they can respond to immediately, a very low friction, easy experience for those families.

And so not only is it giving time back to make deeper connections with families and to get the insight quicker from families, it's going to, as we saw help dig into the why behind every absent. And so you have now the context that's needed to support families in a way that builds trust, that really builds on that relationship. And we know that relationship is key to changing those absent patterns.

And that's where we're gonna start to see the real impact from Attendance Pro. As we start to add those proactive interventions, build those relationships, open those lines of communication with families, that's where the change and outcomes happen.

And so as we kind of wrap for today, I wanna leave you with this, Of Attendance Pro truly is more than attendance. It's about the efficiency and the avenues that are going to create space for those relationships with your families in your district.

So what's really exciting is that attendance of Pro is available today, right? And so if you are ready for a better path forward, we're more than excited and happy to share what that will look like for your district. So Drew, if you pop over to the next slide, you can scan that QR code or visit that URL and book a demo directly with one of our team members here at Apptegy and they can show you exactly how this would look and work for your school district based on your system that you're using, your enrollment size and more.

And if you're not quite ready for that next step, that's okay. Please check out the website, you'll find an ROI calculator there, which is going to help you understand exactly what your current attendance workflows are costing you in time and money.

And either way, we're just so thankful that you've joined us here today as we really work to break down the chronic absenteeism crisis with this new approach. So keep your questions coming. We have probably ten minutes or so that we can stick around and start answering these live.

Drew, do you wanna go through can you see the questions and go through them and and answer some live here?

Drew Doman: Yes. I think one one of the questions I saw a couple of times that I think I just answered this too is this these messages will be sent directly via SMS to start.

We're using that as a mechanism to try and engage as many guardians as possible. Right? As we think of the future, obviously, are plenty of integration opportunities that we'll think about for our apps and for other communication tools, but we really prioritize SMS as a way to reach as many guardians as possible from the beginning of this product.

Emily Simon: I have another one coming in Drew. So some districts using Infinite Campus say that their parents can submit absences through that system. Would the app still send out a notification even though it's already been updated in Infinite Campus?

Drew Doman: Yeah. Part of this is we'll partner with you on how the data is shared to Attendance Pro. Attendance Pro is triggered when it sees an absence from the data shared and synced by the SIS.

And if that's handled in a different way and Infinite Campus already knows the reason, then we potentially don't need to share that data with Attendance Pro and we can share the absences where you need help and you need Attendance Pro to help engage guardians to understand the absence.

Emily Simon: Awesome, Nick is crushing these questions really fast here.Let's see. Do parents know oh, go ahead.

Drew Doman: Oh, I was gonna say, I see one from from Bruce Wilson in in the chat. It says, is the message distinguished between which child for those with multiple kids? Yes. It's gonna specifically reference the child's name and it's it will it will start an individual conversation with guardians based on each student. So it's going to say, in the example I showed, Nell was absent. But if that guardian also has a son named Charlie, it will, you know, it will only be handling the conversation about Nell and the agent will facilitate that conversation. And then if Charlie's absence in the future, it will start a new conversation with that guardian to talk about Charlie.

Emily Simon: Fabulous. Another one, Drew, and I think this is just something to reiterate for the broader group. Do parents know that they're interacting with an AI system and when a message is flagged, how are the staff at the school or the district notified and how quickly?

Drew Doman: Yeah, great question. So the first time that we text a guardian, we let them know this is an AI system that will be engaging them about your attendance. What we also encourage districts to do before we implement and roll out attendance pro is we encourage districts to send out a communication to the entire district to all guardians and all students, letting them know that you're adopting this new tool.

Also, we encourage and we really want you to use your brand, and that's something that's super important to Apptegy, but we encourage districts to come up with a name of this system. Is it the Hudson City Schools attendance agent? Is it the Hudson City Schools attendance assistant? We want to make sure that it's your brand, but it's also very clear to guardians, that this is an AI powered solution.

It's incredibly important to remember also that attendance secretaries can manually intervene and send text messages when needed. In the example of bullying, the AI agent will come up with a response and say, can I get you help? But then an attendant secretary could manually send a text message and say, hi, I'm Drew. I'm the attendant secretary or guidance counselor here.

This is a human. This is not AI. I am looking into your case, I will get you help.

The AI is meant to be an extra set of hands to help get as much information about absences as possible and to free up time for attendance secretaries to really focus on the most urgent action oriented cases.

You'll see in the platform when something's marked for review, you'll see a yellow tag next to each of those conversations. It also specifically highlights which message needs, additional review, so that as someone's looking at the platform, it's supposed to be incredibly clear which messages are needed review and need additional attention or action and which ones the agent has handled on its own.

Emily Simon: Beautiful, I love that. And I love what you said Drew about really thinking about the AI assistant as your additional set of hands to really ensure that you can open those two way lines of communication with more families than you might be able to just with your one dedicated attendance staff.

We have another question that came in twice, Drew, basically in essence, will AttendancePro know if a parent has opted out of the SMS and alert the campus so they can leverage additional means for that communication?

Drew Doman: Yeah, that's a great question.

We can certainly look into that. There's not a place in the product right now that specifically says someone has texted stop to the Tenjin phone number, but that's something we can absolutely explore to make sure it's really clear on which guardians are open to receiving these messages and if there's alternate means in order to reach out to these guardians and engage with them.

Emily Simon: Awesome, thank you so much. And I'm seeing in the chat, there's still some questions about the specific systems that partners with Attendance Pro.

So Drew, if you want to just give kind of an open disclaimer there about our SIS integrations and then we can look to wrap it out.

Yeah, that's a big piece of our onboarding, is to make sure we have the data in a fashion that we can power it into to Attendance Pro to make sure once again which absences you want to drive.

Part of the decision making during the implementation process is do you want to focus on daily attendance or do you wanna focus on period by period attendance, which will obviously require more frequent sick syncs, between Attendance Pro and your SIS. But all of that, we will collaborate with you during the onboarding process to make sure not only do we have the SIS integration, but do we have the agent trained, on the the most important attributes of your attendance policies, how you wanted to respond to those messages to make sure your implementation and adoption of Attendance Pro is seamless.

Emily Simon: As a follow-up, Drew, I saw this one come through a couple times. What if we do both daily and period based attendance? Can we do both?

Drew Doman: Yes, you can absolutely do both. And what's great about Attendance Pro is if a student is absent for the whole day, obviously, they're absent for all of the periods of the day, and it is not going to send a new message every single period, right? It's intelligent enough to know, okay, this student is absent for the whole day, I don't need to send additional period by period. But it also knows, okay, the student was in the first three periods of the day, but then they were absent during the fifth period. When that absent hits, that's when Attendance Pro is gonna send a message to the guardian to start engaging them with the conversation.

Emily Simon: Fabulous. I want to make sure that we wrap so folks can get back to your days. I know in your positions, have a lot of different priorities that you're juggling. So appreciate you carving out the time to join us here today. Hope this has been insightful. If you have more questions or want to learn more about what this can look like for your district, I encourage you to visit apptegy.com/attendance or scan that QR code there on your screen and grab some time with one of our team members who will be happy to walk you through one on one what this can look like. So really appreciate the time everyone. Check your inbox tomorrow for the recap in the recording and have a wonderful rest of your day.

Drew Doman: Bye now. Thank you.

Emily Simon: Bye, everyone.