CASE STUDY
After the pandemic, fights at Huntley jumped from under one a year to nearly 50, and staff were buried in paperwork. With digital passes and instant behavior tracking, the team got hours back to spend with students.
- 141hours of class time gained
- 32,000points for positive behavior
- 8%fewer hall passes
Huntley High School
Solutions used
THE CHALLENGE
Behavior Spiked, and Paperwork Took Over
Huntley High couldn’t see who was coming and going from campus or using hall passes. After the pandemic, behavior got much worse: fights went from fewer than one a year to 48 to 50. The school turned to Hero for behavior management, but it was manual and rarely updated, so despite the cost it ended up unused. Staff time went to paperwork instead of students, so the team needed to free up admin time.
Key problem areas:
- No view of student movement across campus
- Off-campus privileges were hard to manage
- Paper hall passes gave no data and had no clear, fair rules
- Hero, a costly behavior tool that didn’t work
- Paper-based interventions bogged down admins
We have good kids and we’d have less than one fight a year before. But after COVID we were at 48-50 fights. It had exploded. We’d heard about these extreme behaviors at other schools, but we had never experienced them before. So none of us had any knowledge of what to do and it occupied so much of our time.”
THE SOLUTION
Passes and Check Ins First, Then Behavior and Rewards
Huntley rolled out Minga in phases. Digital IDs, check ins, and hall passes came first, to manage hallway traffic and cut down on bathroom vandalism. The next semester, Minga replaced Hero, with automated consequences and a points system to encourage participation.
Pass data showed students were spending too long out of class, so the school set a daily limit of two student-created passes. Approval stickers on digital IDs now make off-campus privileges easy to check.
What Minga offered:
- Student-created or teacher-approved hall passes
- Real-time dashboards showing where students are
- Check ins and digital ID stickers for off-campus privileges
- Instant behavior entries for things like dress code or cafeteria violations
- Points and rewards for engagement
- A platform that cost $7,000 less than Hero
In terms of the behavior side, Minga is a necessary tool. Now, our campus supervisors can issue a dress code or cafeteria violation immediately on the app. They don’t need to write a referral that goes to the Dean. It’s instant feedback, instant action, something that doesn’t require a whole lot of documentation.”
THE OUTCOMES
Admin Time Freed Up for Students
141 hours of class time gained
Student-created passes and automated lunch detentions cut the time teachers spend on paperwork.
8% fewer hall passes
Pass data led to a daily limit of two student-created passes.
Behavior handled on the spot
Supervisors log violations in the app instead of writing referrals to the Dean.
Fewer behavior problems
Limits on how many students are out at once cut down on hallway wandering, bathroom meetups, and vaping.
32,000 points for positive behavior
A points system rewards participation and builds school spirit.
Smoother events
Digital ID check ins at football games and homecoming make attendance quick to record.
The tools certainly have bought us back time that we can now invest back into relationships. I don’t have to figure out 3 different reports to run data on who’s in or out of my building. Minga now does a lot of those things for us, allowing us to buy back hours in the day to go be with the kids and reinvest in those relationships.”
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