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SWIS TM Did You Know…

SWIS TM Did You Know…. MiBLSi State Conference Lansing Sheraton April 23, 2008 Kate Shane, Allegan AAESA Todd, Horner, Amedo, Sampson MiBLSi. Objectives. Remember what the School-Wide Information System is? What kind of account maintenance is necessary?

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SWIS TM Did You Know…

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  1. SWISTM Did You Know… MiBLSi State Conference Lansing Sheraton April 23, 2008 Kate Shane, Allegan AAESA Todd, Horner, Amedo, Sampson MiBLSi

  2. Objectives • Remember what the School-Wide Information System is? • What kind of account maintenance is necessary? • How do we use the system to make decisions? • What is the latest and greatest?

  3. Questions for You • How many in Cohort 1, 2, 3, 4 • How many are the newly elected data entry person, keeper of the book, etc? • Do my objectives meet yours? If not… (just wait till the end….) How many of you would like to save a tree? Make a note of forms that you would like me to email to you. The slides will be online before you know it!

  4. The School-Wide Information SystemTM (SWIS) • Defined: • A web-based information system for gathering, entering, summarizing, reporting and using office discipline referral information • Purpose: • To improve the ability of school personnel to develop safe and effective educational environments

  5. Improving Decision-Making Solution Problem From Problem Solving Solution Problem To Information

  6. Readiness Requirement 4 The school uses an office discipline referral form and problem behavior definitions that are compatible with SWIS

  7. Sample Office Discipline Referral Form

  8. Using Fields • Harrassment • Gender • Racial • Sexual • Hallway • East Wing • West Wing • North Wing

  9. Readiness Requirement 5 The school has a coherent office discipline referral process Definitions for behaviors resulting in referrals Predictability across faculty and administration Single system for managing disruptive behavior Using data for decision making Agreement on the system for entering minor/major events

  10. Writing Behavior ReferralsWhat goes where and when Write behavior referral Give completed referral to teacher or clip to teacher mailbox Call front office, ask for Administrator Is Problem behavior major? YES NO Escort student to office Teacher conference with student Is Administrator available? Escort student to neighboring class YES NO Teacher follows through on consequence Administrator determines detention or out of school suspension Call home Is parent available to pick student up Parent picks up child Contact in-school back-up YES NO Teacher phones parent Administrator contacts teacher for follow up conference Teacher files yellow copy File referral. White, to the Office Yellow , to the Teacher/ referral writer Teacher puts white copy in behavior referral file box in office Each Behavior referral is summarized into a school wide data base. Monthly reports are shared school wide, other reports can be generated upon request.

  11. Time is Precious* • Review of basic maintenance • Annually: enrollment, ethnicity, instructional days (SNOW DAYS) • Scheduling data entry and report generation • Passwords • Training/Retraining people • Staff/students: leaving, changing names • Maintain your institutional memory

  12. *Time • Who is your SWIS facilitator? • If you run into a problem, don’t spend more than 15 minutes trying to fix it without calling for help! • Log off, log back on • Turn off, reboot • Switch computers • Go to your users’ manual • Go to SWIS.org

  13. How Do We Use the “Big 5”? • School-wide/Universal • Who, What, When, Where, How Many? • Monthly Team/School Improvement • Targeted Students, Interventions • BEP/CICO Coordinator, weekly • Are you doing what you said you were going to do? • Intensive Students • Child Study/SAT, FA/BIP, IEPs

  14. Here’s a Thought…at a staff meeting: • Have your teachers list their classroom rules • Then, circle the one that is most problematic • Compare with behaviors by grade chart • Do they match? • If not, is it due to • Perception • Underreporting • Over-reporting? • A lack of classroom rules or no classroom rule to address the problem behavior?

  15. Latest and Greatest • CICO is now available • Free for current SWIS accounts through June • $50 annually • Data Integration Methods • Download file from SWIS • S-Dex downloads SWIS from all District schools • Schools Interoperability Framework (coming soon)

  16. Let’s Review My Objectives • Do you remember what the School-Wide Information System is? • Do you know what kind of account maintenance is necessary? • Do you know how to use the system to make decisions? • What do you think of the latest and greatest?

  17. Did You Have Other Objectives? • Anyone? • Anyone?

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