Cub Guide

The first quarter is almost done, which means somebody's about to ask, "Is this student's intervention working?"

Here's a quick way to answer honestly. Skip yesterday. Look at the last four weeks side by side:

1. Are the rough days less frequent?
2. Are rough days shorter?
3. Are they bouncing back faster?

Any one of those is progress, even if Tuesday was awful. 💡

If you're the person who types up the meeting notes afterward, this one's for you.

This is the SAT Meeting feature in Cub Guide. Notes go in during the meeting, every student you talk about gets tagged, and every "someone should..." goes into the same spot for you to come back to it when you need it.

No retyping. No "wait, which doc did I write that down in?" 💡

A month in, you know exactly which two or three kids you'll be supporting all year. You always do.

Cub Guide is free for up to 3 students. Log from your phone, tie every entry to whatever you tried, and let it compile itself before anyone asks you for it.

No card, no setup call 👉 https://cubbehaviorguide.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Month one is done. You survived it.

If you started logging back in week one, you can pull up any of your kids right now and see the whole month at once, an actual shape with a direction to it.

Which beats spending October arguing about whether things feel better. 💛

Which version of this is the real one?

The doc the counselor updated Tuesday. The spreadsheet the para keeps on her phone. The notes in the SIS. The email thread where three people corrected each other and nobody said which correction stuck.

Then a parent asks what you've been doing for their kid, and you're reconciling four sources before you can open your mouth. One record, one place, everybody looking at the same thing.

You're not going to log every incident. Stop trying.

A daily rating on three targeted skills, done every single day, will tell you more by Halloween than the heroic detailed log you'll abandon around October 10th. Trends need repetition more than they need detail.

Pick the smallest version you'll actually keep doing. 💡

The quietest win in a support team's week is when nobody has to chase anybody.

No hallway "hey, do you have a second." No message asking a para to come down and explain the morning. No waiting until Monday to find out.

Everyone who needed the picture already had it. That's forty minutes back in your Tuesday. 💛

Look at your desk.

The behavior slips, the sticky notes, the half-finished tally sheet for a kid who switched classes in week two, and the Google Doc you started that first Friday and haven't opened since.

Nobody here is disorganized. The record is living in six formats because no single one of them does the job, so it splits. Then it keeps splitting until October, when somebody asks you to put it all back together.

Every note needs a person and a day attached to it.

Not "we'll keep an eye on him." Not "the team will monitor." An actual name and an actual date. Ms. Ruiz, check in Thursday.

Interventions mostly fail on this one thing. Everybody in the room cared. Nobody got assigned. 💡

A teacher turned her laptop around so a fourth grader could see his own week. Three greens in a row.

He asked whether he could check Friday's before the bus.

Kids will work for a number they can see. The ones sitting in a folder nobody's ever shown them might as well not exist. ✅