Case Study: Billingsville Elementary achieves fewer discipline referrals and greater parent involvement with Kickboard

Title I School Reduces Discipline Referrals and Increases Parent Involvement with Kickboard

Billingsville Elementary, a Title I school in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools serving 600 PreK–5 students with 95% free & reduced lunch, faced severe behavioral disruptions that kept administrators out of classrooms and left teachers without a common system for tracking or rewarding positive behavior. To address these challenges the school turned to Kickboard, adopting its classroom management and behavior-tracking platform to establish consistent expectations and recognition practices.

Using Kickboard (implemented in February 2014), teachers began tracking student performance on schoolwide “Family Expectations,” awarding Kickboard dollars, issuing weekly paychecks, and running a virtual school store; they also started sending weekly progress reports to parents and requiring paycheck signatures. Within 10 months with Kickboard, Billingsville reduced discipline referrals, improved teacher collaboration, and dramatically increased parent involvement—teacher–parent communication rose by about 95%—demonstrating measurable improvements in school culture and student behavior.

Billingsville Elementary

Shanna Rae

Co-Principal