101- Giving a Behavior in Schoolrunner

Classroom Teachers, All Staff | Culture 101 | 45 Minutes

In Schoolrunner you can set up the types of behaviors (positive and negative) that you want teachers to regularly assign to students in the classroom and throughout the school. Ensuring that teachers are comfortable with these workflows ensures that you are always reviewing complete and good quality data, Ultimately giving you the real picture of student behavior. In this lesson you’ll detail the workflows of giving behaviors as well as the norms and policies you have around tracking this important information.

Lesson

Introduction (5 minutes) - What is our schools’ policy on assigning merits and demerits? Why is this important for our school? What are our goals around classroom behavior? How is our Behavior system setup and why? Are our Behaviors tied to our core values? If so, why is this important to our school culture/analysis capabilities?

Instruction/Trainer Modeling (20 minutes) - 

1. Navigate to the Class Attendance page in sandbox
   1. Review how to give a behavior, enter a comment
   2. Review how to hover and view daily summary of behavior
   3. Review how to use the detention explain to see who owed detention and why
2. Navigate to the Behavior page and review how to give individual and groups of students one or multiple behaviors at once.
3. Open mobile app (in sandbox mode) and review how to give a behavior to a student, entire section/group of students
4. Review how to favorite a behavior
5. Review how to use voice to text to record a comment on a behavior

Guided Practice (15 minutes) - In Sandbox (or production, only if you have real behavior data to enter)

1. Give Behaviors via the Class Attendance page.
2. Review behavior summary after saving Behaviors on Class Attendance.
3. Switch to projector mode on class attendance page after giving merits and demerits (if you use projector mode).
4. Review Detention information on the Class Attendance page.
5. Give Behaviors via the Behavior page for an entire group of students using Fill Down.
6. Open mobile app (only in sandbox mode) and give behaviors to students there.
7. Create a favorite behavior.

Independent Work Time (10 minutes) - 

1. Giving Behaviors while in sandbox mode a variety of ways to determine which will work best for them. 
2. Switch to projector mode and back again.
3. Use Detention Explain.
4. Use voice to text to record a comment on a behavior.

Lesson Resources

• 101: How Behaviors Work
• 101: Projector Mode
• 101: Detention Explained
• 101: Merits and Demerits

Extend 

Advanced Attendance Options: train as needed

• Review merits and demerits on the Student Dashboard
• Dynamic groups based on behaviors received, merit count or demerit count
• Add saved group to your Schoolrunner mobile app
• Generate student slips

Extend Resources

• 201: How to create Behavioral Slips
• 201: Merits and Demerits Groups
• 101: Slips
• 101: Student Dashboard