Quick — the standard school self-reflection. A 4-point frequency scale (Never / Sometimes / Often / Almost Always), about four minutes. Use this for whole-school administration where you need to triage many students quickly and compare across schools and windows.

Thorough — the full instrument. A 6-point frequency scale (Never / Rarely / Sometimes / Often / Very Often / Constantly), plus intensity follow-ups on the highest-signal items, plus three short written reflections. About ten minutes. Use this for home, mentor, or counselor settings where you want to actually understand and act, not just triage.

Every item is scored so that a higher number always means a healthier response. Reverse-scored items (the risk indicators) are flipped automatically before scoring. In Thorough mode, intensity ratings reduce an item’s score when a difficulty is reported as high-impact. Both modes are normalized to a 0–100 composite so any two responses can be compared directly, regardless of mode.

Tier cut points (normalized composite, 0–100):

Needs support · 0–49   Consider follow-up within one week; in a school, a Tier 3 review.

Worth a reflection · 50–74   Targeted support; reassess at the next window.

Doing well · 75–100   Continue universal support.

The trusted-adult item (Item 18) is also tracked on its own. A response of Never or Rarely/Sometimes raises a flag regardless of the composite score, because connection to a trusted adult is protective on its own.

The results dashboard opens directly — there is no longer an access code. Privacy travels with the link instead: results sync to your school’s sheet only when someone opens a private link you generate under Distribute, and that link never carries the sheet address or any passcode. Open the dashboard with nothing synced and it shows only the self-reflections taken on this device (or demo data), so simply opening it never exposes anyone’s private results. The device itself stays the thing to protect — on a shared computer, use the Delete control on the Privacy page when you’re done.

At home or 1:1: Open this file in any browser. Each person enters a name or ID, their grade or age band, and the window. Choose Thorough mode. They answer privately. When everyone is done, come to this dashboard, open Home View, and select each person.

With a group or several people: Each person uses their own computer (or their own browser). Responses stay private on each device — nothing is shared between people automatically. If several people share one computer, each enters their own name, and the dashboard keeps their records labeled and separate.

Sharing the link: You can host this one file on a free static host (such as Netlify) to get a link anyone can open on a computer or iPad. Each person who opens it still keeps their own private data on their own device.

Home View shows every item, the actual answer color-coded from green (healthy) to deep orange (concerning), the intensity badge where one was recorded, and any written reflections in the person’s own words. At the bottom is a conversation guide: the items that scored lowest, rewritten as gentle questions you can ask, plus a pointer to the curriculum book that addresses that domain. Do not ask all of them at once. Open one door at a time.

By default, all responses are stored only in this browser, on this computer, and nothing is sent anywhere — unless a school turns on syncing to its own Google Sheet (see section 8). The reflections and the written word are saved with the response so a trusted adult can read them — appropriate for home and counselor use. If you ever use this with students in a school setting, treat the responses as part of the student record under FERPA and limit access accordingly.

If anything in a response or a follow-up conversation suggests abuse, neglect, or imminent self-harm, the self-reflection is not the final word — follow your mandatory reporting protocol.

By default, a self-reflection stays on the device that took it. A school can choose to pool its results into its own Google Sheet, so a counselor sees the whole school in one place. With that turned on, a completed self-reflection is saved on the device and sent to the school’s own Google Sheet — never to us, and never through any server we run. The sheet builds a simple dashboard on its own (totals, average score, how many named no trusted adult). Setup takes about ten minutes and is covered in the “Connecting a School Sheet” guide; the data lives in the school’s Google, under the school’s control.

This self-reflection is a flag, not a diagnosis. A low score in one window can be a high score in the next — that is the entire reason it is repeated across the year. The curriculum is the intervention; the self-reflection just tells you where to begin.