Teacher Incident Referrals

Within Incident Management, teachers can now refer observations within the PowerSchool teacher portal. Teacher referrals include basic incident details. Once submitted, administrators can add further detail to the incident.

Teacher Referral Incident Type

1. Navigate to the All Incidents page.

2. Click Incident Types.

3. Note the incident type of  Teacher Referral.

Enable Observations referrals in the PowerSchool Teacher Portal

1. Navigate to the Student Observations Setup page.

2. Select the Enable Student Observation Referrals by Teachers checkbox to enable teachers to refer observations from the PowerSchool teacher portal.

3. Click Submit. 

Set Group Permissions

1. Navigate to the Security Groups page.

2. To narrow the list of groups, enter one or more search terms in the Filter field. 

3. Click a name in the Group Name column. 

4. Select the Access Level.

5. Select Discipline to make this log type accessible to users in this group.

6. Select Teacher Referral to make this incident type accessible to users in this group.

7. Select Incidents to provide access to the student Incident Management pages.

8. Click Submit.

Submit Incident Entry

If an incident occurs that warrants disciplinary action, teachers can record an observation detailing the incident. If a teacher refers the observation, the incident entry appears on the school administrator's Incident Management dashboard.

Work with Teacher Referrals

1. Navigate to the All Incidents page.

2. Update the Date Range, if needed.

3. Choose Incident Type from Incident Element. 

4. Click the Teacher Referral tile to view all incident entries submitted by teachers.

5. Select the incidents you want to work with.

6. Click the Title to view the Incident Detail page.

7. Download the incident information as a CSV file, XLSX, or PDF.

Work with Referrals

Observations with Teacher Referral as the incident type are sent as a referral to the administrator. The administrator can either send the referral back to the teacher for further information or close the observation.

If the incident has been referred by a teacher, you can either Return with feedback for further review or Close observation. This option is only available for a Teacher Referral.

1. Navigate to the All Incidents page.

2. Select the Incident Type filter and then Teacher Referrals.

3. Click Apply.

4. Select an incident. The Incident Detail page is displayed.

5. Click Return with feedback to send the observation back to the teacher add more information.

6. Click Close observation to close the incident.

7. As an admin, you can change the Incident type if necessary.

When the Incident Type is changed from Teacher Referral to any other type, the observation status is change to Accepted and the administrator can add the necessary additional information.

8. Click Submit Incident.