Sun Prairie officials outline student services, SEL rollout and discipline data; no board actions taken

Sun Prairie Area School District officials presented a districtwide review of student services, social-emotional learning (SEL), school-based mental health and disciplinary practices during a superintendent report to the school board on Jan. 13, 2025. The presentation, led by members of the Teaching, Learning and Equity (TLE) team and directors in student services and student policy, summarized recent data, partnerships, gaps in documentation and next steps for policy and operational changes.

The district said its Department of Student Policy and School Operations handled 331 documented situations requiring follow-up during the 2023–24 school year and that, at the time of the presentation, Infinite Campus contained 185 elementary handbook violations and 1,263 secondary behavior incidents. Officials emphasized that the majority of students receive zero to one behavior referral and that a small subset of students account for a large share of incidents.

"Our work in these processes are to understand why we have disparate outcomes and to change the adult actions that lead to those disparate outcomes," said Stephanie Leonard of the Teaching, Learning and Equity team. The presentation reported that Black students, students with disabilities, multilingual learners and students living in poverty are overrepresented in…