Daily 5-Minute Attendance Huddle

Keep the huddle action-focused. Do not turn it into a full case-management meeting.

Short, action-focused, every day

Keep scenarios anonymous

Do not enter student names, student IDs, dates of birth, addresses, parent names, phone numbers, email addresses, or other personally identifying information.

Only enter

Attendance counts, percentages, patterns

Grade or school level

Barriers and interventions

Non-identifying circumstances

Aggregate site information

Decision-support and professional guidance — not a student information system.

Short, action-focused, every day

The five questions

1. Who is newly concerning?
2. Who improved?
3. Who needs contact or action today?
4. Which interventions are due for review?
5. Who owns each next action?

Ground rules

Five minutes, standing, same time each day.
Every item leaves with a role attached — no unowned actions.
Discussion beyond two minutes moves to a scheduled team meeting.
Name improvements out loud; noticing is an intervention.

What should happen next?

Print the card and keep it where the huddle happens.
End each huddle by reading back the owners and the review dates.
Name who owns the next action, and when it will be reviewed.