Guiding Students Toward Success

Students need meaningful connections, caring adults, and engaging activities to learn and thrive. Our focus this year is to ensure student success by keeping them engaged: academically, behaviorally, emotionally, and through consistent attendance.

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Guiding Students Toward Success

Students need meaningful connections, caring adults, and engaging activities to learn and thrive. Our focus this year is to ensure student success by keeping them engaged: academically, behaviorally, emotionally, and through consistent attendance.

Learn More

Access Resources for Parents

Equity, Access, and Social Justice Guiding Principle:

All students are given an equal opportunity to graduate with the greatest number of postsecondary choices from the widest array of options.

All students are given an equal opportunity to graduate with the greatest number of postsecondary choices from the widest array of options.

“We need MTSS in our schools so that we can minimize or eliminate barriers and improve student outcomes by designing equitable, tiered, universally designed systems of support that address student’s academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs in ways that are culturally sustaining.  It is a system for educating all of our students and educating them completely as a 'whole' person.”

Student Attendance & Engagement

Chronic absence directly affects student engagement. Through various programs and partnerships, we are determined to decrease chronic absenteeism and increase student graduation.

Resources

Explore educational and community resources that can help to ensure a child has the support they need to reach their full potential.

Family & Community Empowerment

The Family and Community Empowerment (FACE) Department provides training, information and technical assistance to all SCUSD schools in the creation of effective school-family partnerships. 

Attendance & Engagement

Watch these videos to help understand the importance of good school attendance:

Our Commitment to Attendance

Be HERE at SCUSD

Why 100% School Attendance is Important for Your Child

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What We’re Talking About

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Options for Seriously Ill or Hospitalized Students

Students who are unable to attend school due to serious injury or illness for a period of three weeks or more may be provided home instruction. The student’s condition must be verified by a physician. Students with mental health conditions must present authorization from a physician and a treatment plan from their doctor. A student with a temporary physical, mental or emotional disability who is hospitalized or receiving care in a residential health facility, excluding state hospitals, for a determined amount of time may receive a plan from their therapist. A student with a temporary physical, mental or emotional disability who is hospitalized or receiving care in a residential health facility, excluding state hospitals, may receive individual instruction from the school district in which the facility is located. The family is responsible for notifying the school district about the student’s need for educational services. Contact our district’s Home-Hospital Liaison Nicole Castles at (916) 826-4379 to obtain information about eligibility and educational options. (EC § 48206.3-48208)