and then assistant superintendent eric gethers will be more specific about some of the activities that we're doing and outcomes. so as we embarked on developing this strategic district wide plan to reduce chronic absenteeism, we started by seeking out individual input from both students families and staff perspectives. we conducted some interviews to better understand the experience that individuals were having as it related to chronic absenteeism. and so what you see on figure two is a fishbone diagram. and so what emerged from there were six, i guess, six different themes that came from there. so this was right after the pandemic cites lack clarity on what to do to improve attendance. the quality of attendance data was inconsistent. there was a decrease in resources and infrastructure to address attendance patterns and after the pandemic, families were returning to in-person with with a lot of increased needs, students sense of belonging had decreased and mindsets had shifted around and the quality the continuity of taking daily attendance and so what we see here, you see the diagram