SWIS

About:

The School-Wide Information System (SWIS) is a web-based software system for collecting and summarizing office discipline referrals in schools.  The system was developed by University of Oregon faculty in collaboration with elementary, middle (junior high) and high school personnel.  The purpose of SWIS is to provide schools with accurate, efficient, practical information for decision-making about school-wide discipline.

SWIS was developed to be an efficient, reliable and confidential strategy for managing office-discipline referral information.  SWIS can be used for:

• Internal decision making as schools improve their discipline practices
• Support plan design with individual students and their families
• Reporting to district, state and federal agencies about school outcomes
• As a method of collecting aggregated data across schools

 SWIS database is housed on a secure and dedicated server at the University of Oregon, and is managed by system administrators employed by the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Technical Assistance Center projects at the University.

Once a SWIS account is set up, the school staff enters office discipline referrals into a protected, web-space.  The data may be summarized to provide information about individual students, groups of students, or the entire student body over any specified time period.  Both numerical printouts, and graphs (histograms) are created for use in decision-making.  While SWIS is flexible and can be adapted to the needs of individual schools, the major uses involve monitoring:

• The number of office discipline referrals per month
• The type of problem behaviors leading to office referrals
• The locations of problem behavior events
• The problem behavior events by time of day
• The students contributing to office discipline referrals

Staff:

• Rob Horner
• Anne Todd
• Celeste Rossetto Dickey
• Megan Cave
• Katie Conley
• Mona Miller
• Diertra Lomeli
• Seth May
• Noah Talmadge
• Shane McGovern
• Beatriz Arrayga

Contact:

For more information about SWIS, CICO-SWIS, or ISIS, please visit www.swis.org.