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District unveils monthly conduct dashboard to track office referrals and guide coaching
Summary
District staff introduced a newly built monthly conduct dashboard for the Manchester School District that will show office-referral counts, unique-student counts, incident types and locations. Coaches will meet monthly with school tier-1 teams to use the dashboard for action planning; the district emphasized privacy controls before public release.
District staff previewed a new monthly conduct dashboard to the Conduct Committee on Sept. 17 that will present office referrals by school, grade and incident type and enable coaches and teams to drill down into unique-student counts and locations.
"This is last year’s data. Starting next month, you’re just gonna see September," said Stacy Champy, who identified themself as TSSB director, describing three views: a month-by-month summary of students with 0, 1, 2–3, 4–5 and 6+ referrals; a grade-level breakdown; and a drilldown by incident type showing totals and unique students.
Champy demonstrated an example: 753 disruptive-behavior incidents in elementary schools last year represented 275 unique students, and a fight filter showed 91 incidents involving 74 unique students with location data. Staff said the dashboard remains under development and that grade-level filters and other refinements will be added next month.
Committee members asked who would serve as coaches and how the coaching process would work. District staff said Sarah Corrado will work with elementary schools, and the presenting coaches will support middle and high schools. Coaches will meet monthly with tier-1 teams for an hour to review dashboards, look for patterns, and help teams decide whether issues require schoolwide reteaching or referral to tier-2/3 supports.
Members raised privacy concerns about making interactive, live dashboards public. District staff said the long-range plan is a public family-portal dashboard and district report card, but cautioned that interactive, constantly updating views could risk identifying students. They proposed publishing periodic, de-identified snapshots and adding context such as the number of school days in each month.
District staff are also working on a communications plan for "safe and supportive schools" and will refine the dashboard before deciding what to make public. Committee members praised the visualization and asked for continued updates as development continues.
