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Industry News: District Administrations’ Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products Awards Program

District Administration has opened their nomination period for the 2013 Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products Awards! PublicSchoolWORKS has achieved this distinction five years in a row and is aiming for a sixth! With your help, we will achieve it!

To nominate either or both of our suites, go to www.districtadministration.com/top100 to fill out and submit the nomination form by September 1, 2013.

We appreciate your nomination of PublicSchoolWORKS’ award-winning suites to be among the top ed-tech products!

Customer Highlight: Intervening Before Issues Escalate: Student Behavior Management with Dublin Schools

For Dublin City Schools, Ohio’s 12^th largest school district with 19 schools and 14,400 enrolled students, traditional paper processes for recording and tracking student behavior issues was cumbersome. Dublin needed a more reliable and timely system.

PublicSchoolWORKS’ Student Behavior Management System was the solution for Dublin City Schools. The system automates and streamlines the administrative process related to student behavior concerns, thus improving and speeding up the communication between teachers and administrators and assuring schools are in compliance with reporting issues.

The Student Behavior Management System allows administrators to easily track referrals, documentation, and positive behavior reports, as well as pull behavior trend reports. The system helps schools stay in compliance with state and federal mandates by automating the exportation of behavior records to state and federal agencies. It also eliminates school duplicate entries and recordkeeping.

Dublin City Schools was able to easily streamline processes in order to effectively address both negative and positive behavior, while increasing effectiveness and recordkeeping.

“The Student Behavior Management system creates a better environment for students by eliminating bullying, promoting better attendance and rewarding positive behavior,” said Santa-Emma. “It solves problems before they start.”

To learn more about how your district can use the StudentWatch Suite to streamline student behavior management, email sales@publicschoolworks.com

Customer Highlight: Using Student Behavior Management to Achieve with Kings Local School District

In 2011, Kings Local School’s Kings Junior High School (KJHS) applied for the Ohio Department of Education’s Ohio School to Watch (OSTW) program. The OSTW program recognizes exemplary middle schools that achieve academically, are socially equitable and developmentally responsive and have an organizational structure in place to support these goals. The program also required that students know and meet behavioral expectations of the staff, parents, district and community. 

Using PublicSchoolWORKS’ Student Behavior Management System, Kings Local was able to develop a student behavior program that was easy to implement and enforce.

Automating the recordkeeping and reporting of student behavior incidents, the Student Behavior Management System streamlines communication between teachers and administrators. It also ensures that schools are in compliance with reporting mandates.

KJHS was named an Ohio School to Watch for the 2011-2012 school year and was one of only three schools in the state to receive this prestigious designation. PublicSchoolWORKS was deemed to have been a key piece in achieving this recognition as the Student Behavior Management System helped addressed key metrics.

To learn more about how your district can use the StudentWatch Suite to streamline student behavior management, email sales@publicschoolworks.com.