Edclicking Keyword Cloud
By Dr. Harry Tennant
Monday, October 24, 2011 Is Your School Properly Equipped For Discipline, Part III One of the biggest challenges to running a successful discipline program is having "radar screens" that display information all professional personnel can access, share, and use in decision-making. Campus administration needs these radar screens. Why--for instance--are most schools still creating, submitting, collecting, reviewing, acting on, logging, and otherwise dealing with discipline referrals on paper??? For around the cost of those three-part forms and the other outdated paperwork, your school can have the 21st century data-management solution EdClick offers. Perhaps as much as anyone, Principals and Assistant Principals need radar screens on discipline. They should have: *a single radar screen they all share that displays all open referrals. This is an active, dynamic "pending list" Assistant Principals can use to quickly assess their discipline case load and develop a strategy for working it. Where the Principal is not involved in the day-to-day working of discipline cases, this pending list gives him/her a valuable radar screen on the AP work load and the nature of discipline cases occurring in the school. They should have: *screens that give them insight into the student as part of the process of assessing and acting on discipline matters. When deciding on discipline consequences, the more information (context) the better! The decider should have: They should have:1) ready identifiers that flag students with special designations. Special education, 504, ESL/ELL and other such designations should be considered crucial context in each discipline case. 2) access to notes the teacher and/or other professionals have collected on that student over time. "Student Notes" is a valuable feature EdClick offers in its Discipline Manager to do that and more. 3) a complete discipline history of the student that shows prior referrals in their entirety, plus the consequence assigned and the record of fulfillment. Adults who submit referrals on students deserve to know that the matter is being handled and (usually) in what way it will be. They should have:Parents should be notified when their young person is involved in discipline matters at school. Assignment collection from teachers for ISS, AEP, DAEP, or whatever else rarely works as well as it will if you choose an automation solution like EdClick's Discipline Manager! Web-based data management allows administrators to add students to appropriate lists as a seamless part of assigning a consequence. Campus administrators deserve every "radar screen" on discipline we can provide them. Discipline Manager offers this. It is a powerful tool designed to "enable campus administration for the 21st Century!" Lists are informative and easy to work with. They can be customized for any particular discipline system. When students serve they are easily credited. When they fail to serve, escalation of the consequence can be assigned directly from that roll screen. More "radar screens" to good discipline in upcoming posts! 
Posted at 7:19 PM Keywords: Discipline , School Climate , Accountability , Special Education , Compliance , Documentation , Teachers , BIP , IEP , ISS , Assistant Principals , Principals , EdClick 1 Comments |