Behavior Office

The Behavior Office provides tools for monitoring and recording behavior incidents, for creating letters for parents/guardians regarding student's behavior and for generating reports related to behavior.

Why Reliable Behavior Data Matters

For students to learn and teachers to teach, schools must be a safe environment.  Having accurate and timely data is critical for enabling school and district leaders to effectively focus resources and interventions aimed at improving the safety and security of all students, staff and school facilities.

Behavior Tool Rights

Users with Behavior Management tool rights will have access to modify submitted behavior referrals, assign behavior resolutions, generate behavior letters, and change the status of the behavior referral to complete.

 To receive your Infinite Campus tool rights, you must first take the Infinite Campus Knowledge Assessments on PublicSchoolWorks (PSW) and pass with an 80% or above proficiency every school year. 

 If the PSW Assessment is completed after the deadline, submit a TDX Support Ticket to have your tool rights to Behavior Management activated. 

The Behavior Module is dependent on your tool rights. The chart below shows the breakdown of tool rights for the Behavior Management Module:

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Guide to Student Success

The Guide to Student Success is used by administrators when deciding consequences or resolutions for the student.  The booklet can be found on the CCS website at www.ccsoh.us.

The Guide to Student Success provides definitions of behavior infractions and defines a menu of consequences that can result due to misbehavior. Misconduct is defined in a progressive order as:

• Level I - Minor offenses,

• Level II - Repeated Level I offenses or serious misconduct,

• Level III - Repeated Level I or Level II offenses, illegal and/or serious misconduct, or life or health threatening offenses.

Columbus City Schools’ staff provides tiers of corrective intervention strategies and instruction to students who fail to meet the behavioral expectations.

Behavior Office Tools for Entry

All behavior incidents resulting in an office referral and a behavior resolution must be entered into Infinite Campus electronically using.

Substitute Teachers will still submit paper 190's when reporting a behavior incident. They do not electronically enter behavior referrals into Infinite Campus. Bus drivers will be expected to enter a Behavior Referral electronically unless they are a substitute.

Behavior Referral Tool - All staff (except for daily substitute teachers) will submit Behavior Referrals online using the Infinite Campus Behavior Referral Tool. 

Behavior Management Tool - Users with Behavior Management tool rights will have access to modify submitted behavior referrals, assign behavior resolutions, generate behavior letters, and change the status of the behavior referral to complete. 

Both of these tools can be found on the Main Menu of Infinite Campus under the heading Behavior Office.

Common Discipline Terms

Incident – An Incident is a group of Events linked by time and location. Incident reporting is like a police report – a record of occurrences at a specific time and place.

Event – An occurrence within an Incident. For example, in the “Pep Rally” Incident, you may have two Events: Stealing and Fight – Student/Student.

Role – The function (Offender, Participant, Victim or Witness) the student played in the behavior Event

Resolution – The consequence assigned to the participant(s) of an Event.

Early Leave vs. Behavior Incident

Students cannot be sent home for early leave due to behavior without having a behavior incident recorded.

If the parent/guardian elects to sign the student out early for behavior reasons and the Administrator has not removed them, it will be coded as Early Leave Unexcused (EUX).