[Mi-sky] SWIS followup

[Robert frost]

A few people have asked if SWIS is something that is specific to Tuscola ISD based on my post earlier in the week.  Here's the description from the SWIS website www.swis.org , this is something that is in use nation-wide and is being pushed heavily in our county:
 

The School-Wide Information System (SWIS*) is a web-based software system for collecting and summarizing office discipline referrals in schools. The system was developed by University of Oregon faculty in collaboration with elementary, middle (junior high) and high school personnel. The purpose of SWIS* is to provide schools with accurate, efficient, practical information for decision-making about school-wide discipline.
SWIS* was developed to be an efficient, reliable and confidential strategy for managing office-discipline referral information. SWIS* can be used (a) for internal decision making as schools improve their discipline practices, (b) for support plan design with individual students and their families, (c) for reporting to district, state and federal agencies about school outcomes, and (d) as a method of collecting aggregated data across schools.
SWIS* database is housed on a secure and dedicated server at the University of Oregon, and is managed by a systems operator employed by the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Technical Assistance Center projects at the University.
Once a SWIS* account is set up, the school staff enters office discipline referrals onto a protected, web-space. The data may be summarized to provide information about individual students, groups of students, or the entire student body over any specified time period. Both numerical printouts, and graphs (histograms) are created for use in decision-making. While SWIS* is flexible and can be adapted to the needs of individual schools, the major uses involve monitoring (a) the number of office discipline referrals per month, (b) the type of problem behaviors leading to office referrals, (c) the locations of problem behavior events, (d) problem behavior events by time of day, and (e) the students contributing to office discipline referrals. The system uses a menu-based data entry process that makes data entry and report generation easy and efficient.
The data entered into SWIS* are protected to ensure that only approved individuals from the school may access the database. Information about SWIS* and opportunities for adopting SWIS* may be obtained by contacting one of the following Project Directors: Rob Horner or Jeff Sprague.
Robert Frost
Information Systems Coordinator
Tuscola Intermediate School District
Phone:  989-673-5300 ext. 310
Fax:  989-673-4228
rfrost at tisd.k12.mi.us

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