Board reviews pilot behavioral‑referral system to give teachers timely incident feedback

Speaker 9 explained a pilot behavioral‑referral workflow designed to give teachers consistent follow‑up after submitting discipline incidents. Under the pilot, teachers complete a Google Form that populates a spreadsheet, notifies the building principal (example owner: Josh) by email, and then records the principal's response back to the referring teacher. "We need something that follows that student so we can actually address the issues," Speaker 9 said, summarizing the rationale for the system.

Presenters said the pilot does not replace required state reporting: decisions that change student placement (in‑school or out‑of‑school suspension) will continue to be logged into PowerSchool and reported to the State of Wyoming, as dictated by the district discipline matrix. Several teachers asked whether they would be able to search year‑to‑year incident history for students; presenters said principals control access and that privacy and FERPA constraints limit broad teacher access without appropriate permissions.

Speakers described benefits the spreadsheet offers: basic analytics (e.g., incident location counts that can reveal needs for additional staff supervision at lunch) and an auditable timeline of teacher referral and principal response. The district also discussed replacing the Google Forms pilot with an in‑house system that would allow teachers to see submissions they made and give principals better tools for trending and intervention. No policy changes were adopted; the pilot will be further tested and refined with attention to permissions and data access.

The workshop included questions about when parents are notified under the discipline matrix; presenters confirmed that parent contact follows the existing discipline matrix and typically occurs at the level of violation (warnings usually do not prompt phone calls, suspensions do).