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Boasting over 50 years experience in perfecting a service driven model centered on students-systems-and attendance, Pivot Attendance Solutions (PAS) is your industry approved education and training consultants.
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Pivot Attendance Solutions
Who We Are
Boasting over 50 years experience in perfecting a service driven model centered on students-systems-and attendance, Pivot Attendance Solutions (PAS) is your industry approved education and training consultants. PAS brings extensive knowledge and expertise in legal understanding of the state statues and policies, state data collection, advocacy, community-partnerships, university-based partnerships, homelessness for students in education, research on student bonding and school climate, truancy and absenteeism, defining terminology assessment of emerging models for evidence-based practices, and responding to students and community needs with resources. Exemplified through experience in the establishment of state and international groups on truancy and attendance, creating partnerships with leading state agencies, co-leading state convenings with attention to young black men, school attendance officers, and resource/hearing officers, and developing tailored programs for school corporations to respond to education and support programs. Working at all system levels in education to affect change from non-profits, for-profits, governmental, state, national, and international, PAS is bound to offer solutions via training, videos, consultancy, and assessment and reporting to meet your educational needs. With knowledge in curriculum any program can be tailored.
What We Do
Our strength is in responding to school attendance problems via law, research, and community provider services. Our curriculum, the Pivot Attendance Model (Pivot AM) uses home-grown school-community resources matched with school and program data to find solutions to attendance challenges. The Pivot AM curriculum was developed in 2016 and has had proven success in reducing suspensions and expulsions, increasing student attendance and completions, diversifying programs to demonstrate value of presence, increasing co-curricular community supports, influencing district policies, and emphasizing partnership in paying for whole-child education and citizenship.
How We Began
Over a decade ago this group began informal engagement around a response to attendance from examining truancy and social bonding, alternative approaches for responding to at-risk, under resourced, and homelessness students, to legal processes with juvenile delinquency. Countless presentations were made nationally at large groups on homelessness and locally with Indiana Department of Education, to the CPLI. In 2015 the group formalized its work via an Indiana University research grant to craft a school community partnership and establish a model for alternative to suspension. This led to a state conference on absenteeism, engagement with school districts using the Covey 4DX model where all stakeholders (teachers, substitute, attendance officers, resource officers, and school disciplinarians), community practitioner, to an International conference on truancy and dropout where our very own Kristen Martin and Judge Steve Nation were awarded Attendance Champion and Person of the year in 2017. By 2020 the work had extended to include resources for hearing sessions, community partners, support of a community resource center, and its publication on Changing the frame. It collaborated in administering student surveys to over 10,000 Indiana students in assessing student bonds in over 100 Indiana public and private schools. In 2021 in collaboration with Self-made Business Solutions it officially launched a LLC, PAS to establish a formalized presence. As PAS, the group offers consulting, training and resource service to schools, school districts, and leaders.
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