Education ConnectionDiscipline Data

• Web address:

• User ID: (your primary ID, a full or partial spelling of your last name, may include initial of first name)

Example: SmithJ

• Password: (same as Lawson, may differ from IDEAS password)

https://portal51.sdhc.k12.fl.us/wps/portal

If you get a prompt to configure your credentials, do so.

If you are asked about closing the window, click Yes.

Getting and exporting the data from “Education Connection”

Make a note of the report date:

Nov 10, 2008

(same for all reports)

Reports are run every Monday.

If not done already,

maximize the window size

Open drop-down menu

Select 75% view

Select Area by clicking + sign

Select School by clicking + sign

Click + sign to see list of students

Click + sign to see list of this student’s incidents by number

Drag edge to widen view

Click to open graph

Scroll down to

improve view of graph

Click to begin Export

Open drop-down menu

Select Microsoft Excel

(97-2003)

Note this

page number

Enter same

page number

Export

Save

Select and note folder / location where file will be saved

Rename file.

Example format:

(date)DisciplineActions.xls

Save

“Download Complete” confirmation

To view other data

Repeat same steps.

Opening the graph in Excel to copy & paste it into a Word

document or Powerpoint presentation,

and/or to print the graph.

Double-click the saved .xls file.

If not done already,

maximize the window size

Open drop-down menu

Select Copy

Pasting into a Powerpointpresentation

After pasting, you may print the “slide” view to get a full page

landscape graph.

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If the graph is off-center, click in the center to drag it to the

desired location.

If the graph is too big, click on a corner and drag toward the

center of the graph to make it smaller.

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Add a heading with the date range.

Pasting into a Microsoft Word document

Place the cursor where you want the graph to go. Paste, move and resize the graph as described in the preceding frames.To view or print a full page view, change page setup to “landscape.” Resize the graph, as needed.

Sharing Data and Preparing Supplemental Data

• Set a regular monthly date to access and save your data.

• Ask your Principal how s/he wants to summarize, use, and share the data

• Examples:– Powerpoint presentation to the Behavior Leadership

Team– Print charts for Professional Learning Community

focusing on behavioral data– Email a Word document to all faculty

• Explore other data sources to identify and target services to:– Top 10 frequently referring teachers and– Top 25 frequently referred students

Other data sources include:– Mainframe printouts– E-reports (discipline section)

• Prepare graphs comparing monthly trends of exclusionary discipline actions (e.g., OSS, ATOSS, ISS, Bus suspension)– May use Education Connection data (subtract prior

month from current cumulative total)

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124 was total for Oct. 13 report.

Data for current month is 26 ATOSS events.

Van Buren Middle SchoolBehavior Change Pilot Project

2008-2009Average Days: ISS & ATOSS

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• Support the message that “Referrals are vitally important.”

• They help with allocation of services for individual students, classroom interventions, and schoolwide behavioral systems.

• Beware of staff suppressing referrals due to increased analysis of the data by supervisors.