Discipline Expectations
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Educator HandbookEducatorsHandbook.com is to be used to record minor incidents and office referrals. It replaces paper forms with a streamlined and efficient workflow that helps schools conserve time and resources while providing a world-class analysis of student behavior.
Access -
https://incidents.educatorshandbook.com
If you don’t know your password, never set a password, or your invitation link has expired, click Set a New Password, and follow the instructions to gain access. If you encounter an “Account not found” error message, please contact the school administration.
Reporting IncidentsIncident Type. Select Office Referral if you are referring a student to the administration, or Minor Incident if you are documenting an action that you have taken directly.
Date/Time. The date and time of the incident.
Location. The place the incident occurred.
Subject. The academic subject being taught when the incident occurred.
Arrangement. The instructional arrangement the student was in at the time of the incident.
Offense. The behavior that violated school or classroom rules. If there was more than one offense, choose the most severe and add the others as secondary offenses using the offender menu.
Description. A description of the incident including record of parent contact, steps or interventions taken to change the behavior prior to writing the referral, and other pertinent information.
Offender(s). The student(s) who committed the offense. If recording a minor incident, you will be required to provide the action taken for each offender. You can add optional properties to each offender by clicking the menu button to the right of the student’s name.
Writing a High Quality DescriptionThis must only be a factual, objective statement of what actually took place. It should never be venting, opinion, or your perception. Include just the facts in complete, grammatically correct sentences. Give administration enough information to make a good decision. Use their legal first name, spelled correctly - no nicknames!
Unacceptable:
Acceptable:
Important Tips
Rosters <Action Required>Rosters help you stay on top of incident trends and events for your students. Rosters allow you to receive new incident notifications, access incident data, and reports for rostered students, and track group progress with roster-level reports. Roster access may require administrative approval. You should create a roster for all students in your classes.
To create a roster, click the new roster button in the toolbar, name the roster, and select the students you want to include on the roster. When your roster is complete, click the Request button in the toolbar.
Once your roster is approved, you can click a student name to access that student’s incident report. In addition, you can tap the notifications button in the toolbar to receive an email when any student on the roster receives an incident from another employee. Consequence data will be added to your Calendar view for any student on an approved roster (ex: who has ISS for that day).
Rosters can be edited after they have been approved, but adding a new student to the roster will require re-approval from your administration.
Demonstration videos
Access -
https://incidents.educatorshandbook.com
If you don’t know your password, never set a password, or your invitation link has expired, click Set a New Password, and follow the instructions to gain access. If you encounter an “Account not found” error message, please contact the school administration.
Reporting IncidentsIncident Type. Select Office Referral if you are referring a student to the administration, or Minor Incident if you are documenting an action that you have taken directly.
Date/Time. The date and time of the incident.
Location. The place the incident occurred.
Subject. The academic subject being taught when the incident occurred.
Arrangement. The instructional arrangement the student was in at the time of the incident.
Offense. The behavior that violated school or classroom rules. If there was more than one offense, choose the most severe and add the others as secondary offenses using the offender menu.
Description. A description of the incident including record of parent contact, steps or interventions taken to change the behavior prior to writing the referral, and other pertinent information.
Offender(s). The student(s) who committed the offense. If recording a minor incident, you will be required to provide the action taken for each offender. You can add optional properties to each offender by clicking the menu button to the right of the student’s name.
Writing a High Quality DescriptionThis must only be a factual, objective statement of what actually took place. It should never be venting, opinion, or your perception. Include just the facts in complete, grammatically correct sentences. Give administration enough information to make a good decision. Use their legal first name, spelled correctly - no nicknames!
Unacceptable:
- “He thinks…” “He doesn’t or don’t want to…” “He needs to…” or “He wanted to catch an attitude with me.”
- “She was disrespectful and rude to me.”
- “She’s always cursing.”
- “He disrupted the class multiple times.”
Acceptable:
- “Jill stated in a low voice…<insert actual words in quotes.>”
- “Jack got out of his seat four separate times without permission. The first two times, I gave him a warning. The third time, I spoke to him one-on-one and moved his seat. The fourth time he got out of his seat, he hit Jill in the back of the head. Jack was sent to bounce immediately. Jack’s mother has been contacted about the incident.”
Important Tips
- Enter the date and time the incident occurred, as opposed to the date and time the incident was entered.
- Only create multi-offender incidents when two or more students are involved in the same incident (e.g. a fight), not for two or more offenders separately engaged in the same offense (e.g. skipping).
- Same common sense used when writing paper referrals applies to electronic referrals (i.e. expect everything you document in EducatorsHandbook.com will be read by a parent or attorney).
- You cannot edit incidents once they are saved. Contact an administrator if there is an error.
Rosters <Action Required>Rosters help you stay on top of incident trends and events for your students. Rosters allow you to receive new incident notifications, access incident data, and reports for rostered students, and track group progress with roster-level reports. Roster access may require administrative approval. You should create a roster for all students in your classes.
To create a roster, click the new roster button in the toolbar, name the roster, and select the students you want to include on the roster. When your roster is complete, click the Request button in the toolbar.
Once your roster is approved, you can click a student name to access that student’s incident report. In addition, you can tap the notifications button in the toolbar to receive an email when any student on the roster receives an incident from another employee. Consequence data will be added to your Calendar view for any student on an approved roster (ex: who has ISS for that day).
Rosters can be edited after they have been approved, but adding a new student to the roster will require re-approval from your administration.
Demonstration videos
- Access Your Account (1:16)
- Compose an Incident (1:34)
- Assign a Consequence (1:55)
- Create and Use Rosters (1:22)