DECISION MAKING MATRIX | Role-based Essential Questions for School Climate and Online Accountability

1. The purpose of this decision tool is to enable a process of identifying key areas of knowledge gathering, communication, and points of
guidance to address any major issues of online violation that both inhibit and compromise the safety and security of the school environment.
The tool is designed to gather role based essential questions that will address:
o The safety and security of the school community,
o The ongoing compliance to state and federal law,
o The sustainability of emerging online technologies that foster enhanced learning,
o The appropriate and timely communication (escalation process) of any issues or occurrences of online violation, and
o The assurance that adhering policies and guidelines are properly designed and revised in order to protect and enable continuity of
online learning.

The School Climate Team will use this table and corresponding worksheets to build essential questions to address the online issue.

ISSUE/OCCURRENCE ROLE: ROLE: ROLE: ROLE: ROLE: ROLE: ROLE:

District Building Principal TEACHER PARENT Community School School
Administrator Member Mental Substance
Health Abuse
Professional Professional
SEXTING ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/
STRATEGIES TO STRATEGIES TO STRATEGIES STRATEGIES STRATEGIES STRATEGIE STRATEGIES TO
CONSIDER CONSIDER TO CONSIDER TO TO S TO CONSIDER
CONSIDER CONSIDER CONSIDER

CYBERBULLYING ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL

QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/
STRATEGIES TO STRATEGIES TO STRATEGIES STRATEGIES STRATEGIES STRATEGIE STRATEGIES TO
CONSIDER CONSIDER TO CONSIDER TO TO S TO CONSIDER
CONSIDER CONSIDER CONSIDER
INAPPROPRIATE ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL
WEBSITES/USE OF QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/ QUESTIONS/
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES TO STRATEGIES TO STRATEGIES STRATEGIES STRATEGIES STRATEGIE STRATEGIES TO
CONSIDER CONSIDER TO CONSIDER TO TO S TO CONSIDER
CONSIDER CONSIDER CONSIDER
INSTRUCTIONS: Questions should be written in a manner that requires a task (ACTION ITEM) to be initiated by the designated role. This matrix
may serve as a gap analysis tool to current policies, guidelines, and procedures. Its compiled content should only be construed as an itemized list of
recommendations for administrative change and educational effectiveness (prevention and intervention strategies).

Mark “N/A” for any roles that may not apply.

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ROLE: I ISSUE/OCCURRENCE: SEXTING (Student to Teacher)

A student develops a crush on a teacher and has been communicating by text after school hours. The student’s parents
regularly check the cell phone bill to make sure that the students is not “going over the minutes” in their cell phone plan but fail
to recognize the teachers cell number or the fact that the students is texting after midnight on school nights. The text messages
take on an increasingly sexual tone and the student thinks there is nothing wrong with sending text messages of this manner as
they are “not really doing anything” in real life. A friend of the student reveals to you that they are aware that this texting
relationship is happening and shows you the texts.

 What should you do? Who should be involved? How can this situation be handled? (List options)
 What implications are there in the school and/or community? What could have been done to prevent this?

District ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER:

Administrator

Building ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER:

Principal

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 ROLE: I ISSUE/OCCURRENCE: SEXTING (Student to Teacher)

A student develops a crush on a teacher and has been communicating by text after school hours. The student’s parents
regularly check the cell phone bill to make sure that the students is not “going over the minutes” in their cell phone plan but fail
to recognize the teachers cell number or the fact that the students is texting after midnight on school nights. The text messages
take on an increasingly sexual tone and the student thinks there is nothing wrong with sending text messages of this manner as
they are “not really doing anything” in real life. A friend of the student reveals to you that they are aware that this texting
relationship is happening and shows you the texts.

 What should you do? Who should be involved? How can this situation be handled? (List options)
 What implications are there in the school and/or community? What could have been done to prevent this?

TEACHER ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER:

PARENT and ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER:

STUDENT

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 ROLE: I ISSUE/OCCURRENCE: SEXTING (Student to Teacher)

A student develops a crush on a teacher and has been communicating by text after school hours. The student’s parents
regularly check the cell phone bill to make sure that the students is not “going over the minutes” in their cell phone plan but fail
to recognize the teachers cell number or the fact that the students is texting after midnight on school nights. The text messages
take on an increasingly sexual tone and the student thinks there is nothing wrong with sending text messages of this manner as
they are “not really doing anything” in real life. A friend of the student reveals to you that they are aware that this texting
relationship is happening and shows you the texts.

 What should you do? Who should be involved? How can this situation be handled? (List options)
 What implications are there in the school and/or community? What could have been done to prevent this?

Community ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER:

Member

School Mental ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER:

Health
Professional

School ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS/STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER:

Substance
Abuse
Professional

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