[Mi-sky] SWIS followup

[mccauslind at cheboygan.k12.mi.us]

I must be missing something here.  The Discipline Module allows the entry
of data that "provide(s) schools with accurate, efficient, practical
information for decision-making about school-wide discipline."  Is your
ISD providing SWIS at no cost to you?  We use Skyward for this, as it is a
School-Wide system.
I would not be sending (potentially) sensitive discipline information to
the University of Oregon for their use.  We have our own in-house system
so our data stays in-house.  Sending SRSD data out is bad enough...

Dave McCauslin
Technology Director
Cheboygan Area Schools

> 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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