Tier 4 — Tiered Attendance Intervention Guidance
SARB Intensive Coordination
Provide intensive district and community coordination, intervention, and accountability when earlier interventions have not sufficiently resolved the attendance concern.
Avoid framing SARB solely as punishment. Support and accountability can exist together.
When this tier applies
- SART was implemented and monitored without sufficient improvement
- Barriers require district or community authority and resources
- Intensive coordination and formal accountability are both needed
Key question: What do we need SARB to help accomplish that previous interventions have not accomplished?
What staff do at this tier
Practice guidance, not a referral checklist.
- 1Summarize the full attendance and intervention history before referral.
- 2Confirm legal and process documentation is complete and accurate.
- 3State the specific ask for the board.
- 4Build a plan naming responsibilities for student, parent/guardian, school, district, and community partners.
- 5Set measurable goals, timelines, progress review, and follow-up responsibilities.
- Attendance history
- Legal / process documentation
- Attendance patterns
- Student voice and family voice
- Identified barriers
- Tier 2 interventions
- SST / MTSS team actions
- SART actions
- Community resources attempted
- Intervention outcomes
- Remaining barriers
Decision point
At the review date, choose deliberately and record it.
Improving
Continue the SARB plan and begin follow-up tracking.
Modify
Adjust directives or supports.
Intensify
Add district or community coordination.
Reconvene / additional response
Circumstances require the panel to meet again or another agency response.
Move to a more intensive tier when
- • This is the most intensive tier — escalation here is to additional agency coordination
Reduce the level of intervention when
- • Attendance stabilizes and the case moves into re-engagement and follow-up, then back to site support
Documentation tools for this tier
Where this sits in the continuum
- Tier 1Universal PreventionConnection, clear expectations, consistent communication, and schoolwide data awareness.
- Tier 2Early Identification & Site-Level InterventionBarrier identification, matched intervention, and short-cycle monitoring at the site.
- Tier 3Multidisciplinary School-Site Support (SST / MTSS)Coordinate and intensify support for barriers that targeted intervention did not resolve.
- Tier 3+SART Formalized Attendance InterventionFormalize expectations, supports, and accountability with the family in writing.
- Tier 4SARB Intensive CoordinationDistrict and community coordination, intervention, and accountability together.
- Follow-UpRe-Engagement & Follow-UpStabilize at 30 days, evaluate at 60, determine the path at 90.