A referral shouldn't eat your afternoon.
Get the story, help the kid, and let the paperwork write itself.
Resolve handles a discipline incident from first report to closed case: gather what happened, decide what happens next, and the defensible record builds itself as you work.
Try it freeGather what happened — photos, statements, your own notes — in one place, as it unfolds.
Not every rough morning needs to become a permanent record. Binder lets you work an incident without committing it — until you decide it belongs on the record.
When something does need to go on the record, it's one clear step — with built-in reminders that keep you on the right side of due process.
What Resolve does
Handle the incident. The defensible record writes itself.
So the write-up that used to cost an hour is done when the incident is.
Each family's letter is about their child alone. Binder never names another student in it.
So you're not scrubbing four versions of the same letter, and you're not the one who missed a name.
Open a case the moment something happens, with nothing filled in.
So the record starts while you still remember it, not after the afternoon is over.
Nothing is decided for you. Binder organizes the evidence and flags what to consider.
So the consequence is a person's judgement, with the matrix in front of them.
When it's time to decide, Binder puts your matrix, the student's history, and how you've handled this before on the same screen.
So you decide with your own policy in front of you, instead of from memory.
How it works: One referral, start to finish
The referral arrives
A teacher sends a referral in two minutes from their own phone, between classes. It lands in a shared queue instead of one person's email.
Open a case with nothing in it
Open it the moment something happens. Nothing is required first — the list labels the case by whatever it knows so far, so a half-finished one is easy to spot and come back to.
Gather it while it's fresh
Statements in the student's own words. Photos of what you found. A recorded interview becomes a transcript you promote deliberately, and the verbatim is never edited. Family contacts logged as you make them.
Decide with everything in front of you
Your matrix for this behavior, this student's prior occurrences, and what other students received for the same thing — on the screen where you decide, per student, with your rationale in your words.
The record writes itself
By the time you have done the work, the defensible record already exists. Guardian letters render on your school's letterhead, in the family's language, with a link that tells you they saw it. Redaction is a toggle, not a retype.
Follow-through, until it's done
Assigned is not served. Sessions carry rosters and printable sign-in sheets, missed consequences surface instead of evaporating, and removal days count toward the ten-day line before anyone crosses it.
Sound familiar?
- “I do the whole investigation and then spend an hour writing it up so it holds if anyone challenges it.”
- “I copy the letter for each family, take out the other kids' names, and hope I caught them all.”
- “I can't open a referral until I know the student, the category and what I'm calling it.”
- “The system's rules decide the level, and I spend my time arguing with it.”
- “I'm deciding with a kid in my office and a parent waiting, and the handbook is in a drawer.”
Resolve was built to end both.
What you're using now
Discipline lives in email threads, Word-doc referral forms, and whoever's memory holds the details. That works until a decision is challenged, and then reconstructing the record costs an evening. Resolve keeps the gathering where it happens, so the record exists because you handled the incident — not because you stayed late to write it.
Every Binder app works like this
Built for your phone first
Every screen works in a hallway, not just at a desk.
Paper is a first-class input
Point your camera at a roster, a sign-out sheet, a stack of work — Binder drafts, you approve.
Your district's words
Labels and letters render in your district's own terminology.
AI drafts, people decide
Nothing becomes a record until a person says so.
More on how Binder works: the platform · security & privacy
Every Feature You'd Expect. Every Feature You'll Need.
The ordinary things a tool like this has to do. Listed so you can check them off.
- Cases you can open empty and finish later
- Behaviors, levels and consequences you configure
- Guardian notices with acknowledgement
- Detention and session rosters, printable
- Case search by number, student or narrative
- A consequence ladder per school, with an org-wide fallback
- Equity reporting with risk ratios by group
14 days, no credit card, nothing to install. Explore with sample data, or bring your own roster.