Assessing and Using Discipline Data to Improve Student Achievement

And How we do it at KMS.

Maintaining and assessing discipline data at the building level to improve student achievement and building safety. (Goals 1 and 2)

Kendrick Middle School Discipline Report

Comparison of the average per day office referrals.

Kendrick Middle School Discipline Report

Comparison of the total number of office referrals.

Guidelines

• Information taken from EBIS manuel.

GUIDELINES• 1. Develop data collection procedures that

are integrated into typical routines (office discipline referrals, attendance rolls, behavior incident reports)

• 2. Regularly assess the accuracy of data collection procedures.

• 3. Limit data collection to information that answers important student, classroom, and school questions.

Guidelines4. Establish specific structures and routines

for staff members to receive weekly/ monthly data reports about the status of school-wide discipline.

5. Precede all decision making efforts with “What do our data indicate?”

Developing a tracking system• 1. Who violated the rule (name-grade)• 2. Who observed and reported the violation• 3. When (day, time) the rule violation

occurred .• 4. Where the rule violation occurred.• 5. Who else was involved.• 6. What was the possible motivation.• 7. What rule was violated.

Our Approach• Discipline committee meets once a month to

discuss the “big 5”.– How many offenses per day

• Are the patterns apparent across months?– What type of offenses

• What problems are of most concern?– Where was the problem behavior

• Where are the problem behaviors coming from?– What time were the problem behaviors

• What is going on during the problem times?– Which students are committing the offenses

• Are concerns individual or school wide?

SWISSchool Wide Information System

http://app.swis.org/

The “BIG 5”

Questions to answerWhat can we eliminate?How can we make current activities more

efficient?What needs to be addressed next?What is working and what is not working?What can we do to improve what we are

currently doing?

Some of our actions:1. School wide discipline plan2. Reduce transistions 3. Motivational posters 4. Definition of disrespect5. Office referral examples 6. Moving of teachers – restructuring of

teams

• 6. Discipline matrix• 7. Clubs

– BEST– DYG – DYL– FBLA– FCA

• 8. Student schedules• 9. Rewards for positive behavior

– Kudos, up 5 awards, SOTM, • 10. Discipline notebook – documentation• 11. Conference with teachers

ReviewDetermine guidelines for data collectionDetermine what you are going to trackDiscuss and analyze dataCome up with action plans based on the data.

My Philosophy in ISS Rehabilitative + Punitive 1. Work with teachers to get the best work

for the students.2. Treat the students with respect and model

it. Contract – reward system – counseling

BESTBeginning toEmerge as ST ars

1. Student selects a mentor – checks up on him/her.

2. Group counseling – anger management

3. Free field trips

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