Assigning follow-up behavior action

A student behavior incident may require follow-up action. You can assign an action to one, some, or all of the school's students on the list of Persons Involved. Once you have assigned an action to a student, you can tailor that action for each student [>>].

An action consists of at least one, usually several, action steps. Actions and their steps are set up by a District Administrator in accordance with district policies and procedures [Student behavior setup >>].

To assign an action to a student behavior incident:

[You can do this if your role is Teacher, School Administrator, or District Administrator.T, SA, DA]

Locate and view the incident record [>>]. The Edit Behavior Incident page appears.

In the Actions panel, click Add. The Add Action page appears.

Add information, which includes:

Responsible person, school: The school that employs the person responsible for overseeing the action.

Responsible person: The school staff member responsible for ensuring the action is completed.

Responsible person (other): The name of the responsible person, if that person is not a staff member.

Action description: A more complete description of the action.

Action category: The general category of action.

Action sub-category: A more specific category of action. The choices available depend on the Action Category chosen.

Action: The specific action to be taken. The choices available depend on the Action Sub-category chosen

Action type: The district's categorization of the chosen action [Student behavior setup >>], which PowerSchool SMS displays automatically.

Action severity: The district's assessment of the action's severity [Student behavior setup >>], which PowerSchool SMS displays automatically.

Selected action steps: The steps involved in taking this action. Chosen from the Available action steps. Note: An action must involve at least one step.

Persons involved: Enables you to associate with this particular action some or all of the students from the list of Persons Involved in this incident. To be selected for an action, the student must be enrolled at this incident's "Referred by, school" [>>].

Related Events or Concerns: Enables you to associate one or more of this incident's Events and Concerns with this particular action.

Demerits: The number of demerits assigned to this action. This information is useful for custom reports [>>]. Accepts up to four digits followed by one decimal place.

Related to Specialized Services hearing: Indicates that this action is the result of a hearing for a student who receives specialized services.

Zero tolerance policy: Indicates that this action is related to a zero-tolerance policy.

Total time required: The time in hours or days required to complete the action.

Previously completed: The time in hours or days that the person associated with this action has committed to the action prior to the action being recorded in this incident record.

Discrepancy reason: If the person associated with this action has not or does not intend to commit the Total time required for the action, the reason for this.

Click OK. The Edit Behavior Incident page appears.

Or click Save & Add to add another action.

Note: Once you save an action, any subsequent changes to that action apply only to the student for whom it was created [>>].