Each morning: who may need attention, and the reason they wrote
For counselors, behavioral health specialists, and anyone your school designates. You read a short list, decide who to see, and note what you did.
Students who may need attention · Today
Grade 8 · wrote a reason today
“Lunch is hard since my friend changed schools.”
Grade 6 · asked to talk to someone
Grade 10 · wrote a reason today
“Moving houses this weekend.”
Read the reason. Pin, note, resolve.
Students check in during class. By the time you sit down, the list is there: who may need attention and what they wrote. You decide who to see; TrustCircle keeps track of what you did.
Note: Met at lunch. Worried about a friend, not herself. Check in again Friday.
Classroom
Students check in
2–3 minutes, private
Your desk
You see who may need attention
A short list, with what each student wrote
Hallway, office, lunch
You act early
Talk, then pin, note or resolve
With district data feeds
Tier 2/3 follow-through
Service plans, session logs and outcome reviews
2–3 minutes from teachers.
A short list for you.
The list means conversations, not a new program to run.
- Teachers
- Give 2–3 minutes of class time for the check-in. Nothing else: no reviewing, no data entry.
- You
- Read the list, decide who to see, note what you did. The conversations are the ones you’d want to have anyway.
- Students
- A private check-in on their own device: four feelings and, if they want, a short reason.
How are you feeling today?
2–3 min- Joy
- Anger
- Fear
- Sad
“Moving houses this weekend.”
Students who may need attention
Grade 10 · wrote a reason today
It won’t replace your judgment, your referral process or your SIS
- Your judgment
- The list shows who may need attention. Whether to see a student, and how, stays your call.
- Your referral process
- Keep the forms, the team meetings and the outside partners you already use.
- Your SIS
- TrustCircle runs alongside it, through Google sign-in, Clever, ClassLink/OneRoster, PowerSchool or Infinite Campus.
TrustCircle is not a crisis service. Check-ins are reviewed during school hours, and urgent concerns go to school staff, a trusted adult or local emergency services. If a student is in immediate danger, call 911, or call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Grade 8 · wrote a reason today
Note: Talked after third period. Bringing it to our team meeting Thursday, with our usual referral form.
Only designated support staff see a student’s check-ins
Students answer more honestly when they know who reads it. So the only people who can see a check-in are the ones whose job is to help.
- Who can see
- Support staff your school designates see a student’s name, check-ins and the reason they wrote, so they can help.
- Who can’t
- Principals, administrators, parents, teachers and other students. Teachers see class-level numbers, not individual check-ins.
Student records are handled under FERPA.
Privacy policyDesignated support staff
Name, check-ins and the reason they wrote
Grade 7 · “Nobody to sit with at lunch.”
Teachers
Class-level numbers, not individual check-ins
- Joy
- Anger
- Fear
- Sad
Principals, administrators, parents and other studentsNo check-ins
When one conversation isn’t enough, the service plan picks up
For the few students who need more, Tier 2/3 service plans, session logs and outcome reviews sit next to the check-ins that led to them. This needs your district’s data feeds; Hawaiʻi’s Department of Education runs it today.
Ask your director whether your district has connected its data. If not, the daily check-in and the list work on their own.
How follow-through uses district dataGrade 9 · wrote a reason
“Things at home are a lot this week.”
Service plan · Grade 9
Active- Sessions logged
- 4 of 6 · Small-group, Tuesdays
- Outcome review
- Nov 18
Four sentences for your director
Copy this into an email. It says what TrustCircle asks, what it gives, and who runs it.
- To:
- Your director
- Subject:
- TrustCircle for our support staff
TrustCircle gives every student 2–3 minutes of private daily reflection in class, and gives our designated support staff a short list each morning of who may need attention, with the reason the student wrote.
Staff pin, note and resolve each one, and when the district connects its data feeds, Tier 2/3 service plans and session logs follow on.
It runs alongside our SIS and referral process, and only designated support staff see a student’s check-ins.
Hawaiʻi’s Department of Education and Nebraska’s ESU 2 offer it to their schools today.
Where it runs today
Hawaiʻi Department of Education
State department of education
Regional educational service unit
See the morning list for yourself
A walkthrough of the morning list, a note and a resolve, and what to send your director.
In your demo
- The morning list, as you’d see it
- A pin, a note and a resolve
- What to bring to your director