Minnesota State Reportable Discipline allows school staff to create discipline records that align with the Minnesota Disciplinary System Incident Reporting (DIRS). Minnesota schools are required to maintain student discipline records with specific state-reportable information for fiscal audits and program evaluation, as mandated by the MDE under federal and state law. With jmc’s Discipline module, all DIRS-required fields are built in, making it easy to create accurate, state-compliant discipline records—no second-guessing, no missing information, just confidence that your reports are complete and correct.
In jmc Office, head to Discipline > Data > Edit Student Discipline to begin using jmc Discipline for DIRS data collection.
Editing Student Discipline Records for State Reporting
The Edit Student Discipline page in the Discipline module is your hub for creating complete, state-compliant discipline records. jmc’s intuitive interface guides you step by step, showing or hiding the right data elements based on prior selections—like Problem Behavior and Action—so you can be confident that every record includes the information required for Minnesota DIRS reporting.
Perpetrator/Victim: Identify the student as a perpetrator or victim of the selected problem behavior to meet state-reporting requirements.
Problem Behavior: Select from state-defined behaviors (marked with an asterisk) that determine whether the discipline record is reportable.
Action: Choose the school’s response to the problem behavior. State-defined actions (also marked with an asterisk) must accompany a reportable problem behavior to create a state-reportable record.
Problem Behavior and Action Details: Enter conditional details that appear based on the selected behavior or action. For example, choosing a behavior like Alcohol may trigger additional required fields such as Offense Type to fully document the incident.
Incidents: Assign an incident number once you’ve completed the problem behavior, action, and all required details. If multiple students are involved, apply the same incident number to link perpetrators and victims to a single event for consistent state reporting.