AUTOMATED PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE
Turn your progressive discipline policy into automations. Minga counts every offense, assigns the next consequence, and keeps families informed.
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How Progressive Student Discipline Works in Minga
Set it up once from your handbook. Minga follows it on every offense, all year long.
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Turn your school policy into an automation
Set up a group for each policy, with the thresholds and consequences your handbook already spells out.
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Log behavior in just 3 clicks
Anyone can log a behavior from anywhere in Minga. It tallies every repeat offense, so no one keeps count by hand.
Step 03 of 05
Minga keeps count of behaviors and assigns consequences
When a threshold is met, Minga assigns the next step. Same behavior, same response, across every classroom.
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Families hear about it right away
A parent email and SMS go out when a consequence is assigned, with no calls from the office.
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Anything that’s overdue escalates on its own
If a consequence isn’t served on time, Minga escalates it or adds another, and lets the student know.
See it in action
From a first warning to a parent conference, Minga can assign any consequence in your progressive discipline policy automatically, in the order you choose.
Automate the Consequences Your Policy Calls For
Warnings
A first step that puts the student on notice, recorded automatically.
Parent notifications
Email and SMS go to families the moment a consequence is assigned.
Point deductions
Take PBIS points away as part of the consequence.
Removed privileges
Pause access to things like school events or off-campus lunch.
Detentions
Lunch or after-school detention, scheduled into an open session.
In-school suspension
ISS assigned when a policy reaches its most serious step.
Parent conferences
Bring families in when a pattern needs a conversation.
Custom consequences
Anything else your school uses, set up exactly how you need it.
The Difference
Manual Tracking Lets Accountability Slip. Minga Follows Through Every Time.
A progressive discipline policy only works if every behavior is tracked and every step is followed consistently. Minga handles both, automatically.
| Paper Policy |
Minga
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|---|---|
| ? how many times a student has already been warned | 100% of behavior tracked and acted on, the same way every time |
| Offenses tallied on paper, or from memory | Every offense counted automatically |
| A different response in every classroom | One policy, applied the same way everywhere |
| Admins working out which consequence comes next | The next consequence assigned on the spot |
| Consequences that never get served | Overdue consequences escalate automatically |
| Counters reset by hand at the end of each term | Resets run on the schedule you set |
FAQs – Progressive Discipline
Progressive discipline is an approach where consequences increase as a behavior repeats, starting with a warning and moving to stronger steps like detention or in-school suspension. It gives students clear expectations and room to change course. Minga applies each step automatically based on how many times a behavior has occurred.
A strong policy defines the behaviors it covers, the number of offenses that trigger each step, the consequence at each step, how families are informed, and when counts reset. In Minga, each policy becomes an automation group with those thresholds and consequences built in.
Common consequences include warnings, parent contact, lunch or after-school detention, loss of privileges, and in-school suspension. Minga lets schools use any consequence they define and set the order they are assigned in, so the response matches your handbook.
In Minga, you create an automation group for each policy, set how many offenses trigger each step, and choose the consequence for each step. When staff log a behavior, Minga counts it and assigns the next consequence automatically, the same way in every classroom.
You choose what parents hear about, every behavior or just consequences, and how they hear it: email, SMS, or both. Parent notification is set up to match your school and community.
Minga tracks due dates on consequences. If one goes overdue, Minga notifies the student and can automatically escalate it or assign an additional consequence. Overdue consequences also appear in reports, so admins know exactly what is still owed.
Most schools reset counts at the start of a new term, semester, or school year, so students get a fresh start. In Minga, you can schedule resets for each automation group in advance, or reset counts manually when needed.
Yes. Minga automation groups work for positive behaviors too, so schools can recognize students automatically when they reach a milestone, using the same thresholds and steps as their discipline policies.
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Put Your Discipline Policy to Work
See how Minga turns your progressive discipline policy into automations that run on every offense.
