SWIS:
School Wide Information System
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What is SWIS?
Web-Based Software system used for collecting and
summarizing office referrals.
Menu Based System
Numerical and Graphing of Discipline referrals by:
-month
-location
-type of discipline
-time
-students involved
-teachers
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SWISTM
(School-Wide Information System)
Defined
SWISTM is a web-based information system for
gathering, entering, summarizing, reporting and
using office discipline referral information
Purpose
Improve the ability of school personnel to develop
safe and effective educational environments
Why SWIS?
Efficient
Effective
Secure
Provides useful data for making databased decisions to improve the
climate of the school
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Features of SWISTM
Only reports discipline data
Major office referrals
Minor discipline offences
Highly efficient (30 sec per referral)
Local control
Formatted for decision-making (pictures)
Information is available continuously
Confidential, secure
Can be combined with district data base
How SWISTM works
Data Entry
– School Address and Contact
– Enrollment/Days per month (ethnicity)
– Staff Information
– Student Information
– Referrals
Reporting
– Average Referrals per Day per month
– Referrals by Problem Behavior
– Referrals by Location
– Referrals by Time
– Referrals by Student
– Other Reports
How do we get SWIS?
Meet 10 requirements:
1)
School wide discipline is one of top 3
goals
2) Administrator support
3) Coherent office discipline referral system
4) Referral form consistent with SWIS
5) Behavior Support Team-2X month
6) Behavior Support team agree to trainingdata based decision making
7) Data Entry Time/Personnel
8) Internet Access
9) 3 staff members/building SWIS trained
10) Provide a Facilitator
-Contact a SWIS Facilitator to begin the licensing
process
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SWIS Preview
Browse to http://www.swis.org/
enter username: ebs
enter password: ebs
ask for current school year to view a
year of data
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