Module 4.7 – The Dashboard As An Operating Surface

Unit 4 · Screening Week Gated

During screening day, the Dashboard is not a report. It is the board the team works from.

Reports get made afterward. That distinction is most of what makes it useful.

Four things on screen

The queue. Waiting, In office, Complete. High Risk only, because they are the only students seen same day. When a counsellor claims a student, the row changes colour so nobody goes to get the same kid twice.

The roster. One row per student, no names. Timestamp, grade, student ID, the severity bands, the risk level, and time waiting.

The snapshot. The aggregate numbers, which is what goes to the principal and eventually into the grant report.

Care coordination. A separate file, its own access list, holding what the roster deliberately does not: name, guardian name, phone, email. See Module 1.2.

The two-hour standard, on screen

The queue shows time waiting against the standard, not an open-ended list. A count of three tells a counsellor nothing. A count of three with a longest wait of one hour fifty-two tells them who to go get.

A note on the bands you will see

The live Dashboard displays four bands, including Minimal. The toolkit works in three: Low, Moderate, High. Minimal and Low both mean Low for every purpose in this toolkit, and nothing in the response model treats them differently.

What is not on the board

There is no Elevated Clinical Risk column, and that is deliberate. A form completed at a computer in third period reports which items a student endorsed. ECR is a determination a trained person makes in the room, and it is recorded on the care coordination side with the documented basis for it. See Module 5.6.

Go Deeper. Unit 10 on the website: reading your own data, and the Dashboard build notes. Training-gated.

# UNIT 5 – RESPONSE

SAFER Universal Screening Toolkit. Six Modules. The heart of the toolkit.

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