Discipline

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Discipline

• Discipline, Investigations, Procedures, and Data
• December 4, 2006
• Professional Development

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Faculty Outcomes

• Teachers will become aware of some of the
  loopholes in the current discipline system and
  understand how these loopholes can be addressed.
• Teachers will understand the importance of
  contacting parents and providing follow-through
  with disciplinary contacts.
• Teachers will understand that all disciplinary
  actions of the current system function within the
  realm of our core beliefs.

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Faculty Outcomes

• Teachers will analyze discipline trend data at
  West Middle School.
• Teacher will review how to write Tier 2 log forms.

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Discipline and the Professional

• All discipline must be delivered with empathy.
  Even the toughest moments with a student have to
  be seen as opportunities to forge relationships.
  Its not easy, but its expected. Through our
  professional status as educators, we can and we
  must accomplish this.

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Importance of Clear and Timely Communication

• Communication is key to running any type of large
  system efficiently. When communication is not
  clear, not consistent, and not prompt, then
  misunderstanding develops. When
  misunderstandings are not addressed, then false
  impressions often result.

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Communicating in the Discipline System Keep in
Mind

• Discipline often requires extensive
  investigations.
• When delivering consequences to parents, we need
  to know the entire picture.
• Extensive investigations assist us in questioning
  perpetrators. Information is used to develop a
  plan for questioning -- catching perpetrators in
  a lie.
• In 99 of all cases, investigating is never
  intended to question the teachers assessment of
  reported situation. What type of a case might be
  the other 1?
• We have to provide due process.

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Communicating on Tier 2 Logs and Behavior
Referrals.

• General Overview
• State the facts only.
• Indicate if you are a witness or reporting
  something that has been brought to you.
• State clearly what happened. Poor grammar and
  spelling will result in the Return of a
  Referral notice.
• Communication on write-ups determines the course
  and outcome of investigations.
• The administration reserves the right to handle
  discipline as it deems necessary.

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Communicating on Tier 2 Logs and Behavior
Referrals.

• General Overview
• Referrals with no teacher signature are not
  processed.
• Referrals may become subject to court cases upon
  the completion of an expulsion hearing.
• Examples for writing referrals may be found in
  the faculty handbook.
• Emergency situations must be communicated to the
  office via a phone call or messenger. E-mail is
  not a reliable source.
• When an administrator is absent from the
  building, place referrals in another
  administrators box.

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Communication on Tier 2s

• The last section on a Tier 2 log form is reserved
  for administrative purposes only.
• Teachers may contact Angelica Diaconescu to see
  what number in the log system a child is on at
  the time. Many of you like to handle issuing the
  discipline.

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Follow-through on Tier 2s Issuing the Pink Form

• If you plan to call home
• Tell the student you will be calling home.
• Keep the pink sheet attached.
• Call home.
• Make a notation that you called home that day on
  the pink form. If dialogue takes place, place
  the notation in the Parent Signature.
• Issue pink sheet to student following day.
• Turn in white copy to Diaconescu keep yellow for
  your records.

• If you plan to send pink sheet and expect a
  parent signature
• You must develop a system of following through
  and securing a signature.
• Keep a file on all signed pink sheets.
• What systems are working successfully in this
  building for follow-through on pink sheets?

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Tier 2s End-of-the-Year Documentation

• Upon securing signed pink sheets from parents,
  collect them so that they may be turned into the
  office or accessed by the administration at the
  end of the school year.
• We are liable for contacting parents in
  disciplinary actions.

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Discipline Data Program Analysis

• Looking at Discipline Data to Start a Dialogue
• (Jennifer Greene, Dean of Students)