Minnesota State Reportable Discipline allows school staff to create discipline records that align seamlessly 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: Each state-reportable record requires you to identify the student as either a perpetrator or victim of the selected problem behavior, ensuring accurate reporting for all involved.
Problem Behavior: State-defined behaviors (marked with an asterisk) that determine whether a discipline record is reportable.
Action: The school’s response to the problem behavior. State-defined actions (also marked with an asterisk) are required alongside a reportable problem behavior to complete a state-reportable record.
Problem Behavior and Action Details: Conditional details tied to specific behaviors or actions. For example, selecting a behavior like “Alcohol” may trigger additional required fields such as “Offense Type” to fully capture the incident for DIRS.
Incidents: Once a reportable problem behavior, action, and all required details are entered, you can assign a new incident number to the record. If multiple students are involved, the same incident number can be applied, linking victims and perpetrators to a single record for consistent state reporting.