1. Glenn Hills Middle SchoolCelebrating Academic Success 2009-2010 Achieving Academic Success Through Standards-Based Practices Building A Community of Excellence!

2. Glenn Hills Middle SchoolCelebrating Academic Success Creating A Culture & Climate for change Discipline Protocols Building a Community of Excellence!

3. Discipline Protocols It is important for teachers to understand that discipline is an adult issue not a student issue. As practitioners in the classroom--teachers are responsible for discipline. As administrators--our aim is to respond to and support teachers in the classroom.

4. Discipline Protocols Response To Intervention Addressing Teacher Behavior

5. Discipline Protocols Administrator’s Philosophy Concerning Discipline—changing teacher behavior. Discipline is a classroom management issue. Teachers are responsible for discipline. Discipline referrals are not tools that manage discipline. Must be a process of intervention before a referral can be written. All referrals have a section identified as “prior action taken by teacher.”

6. Discipline Protocols Before a referral can be accepted in the front office, it must go through the intervention process. Response to Intervention (RtI)

7. Discipline Protocols Question 1: What have you (the teacher ) done prior to writing a referral? Response to Intervention (RtI) Question 2: What documentation do you have to support a referral being sent to the office?

8. Organizational StructureFlow of Discipline Practices Immediate Office Referral Drugs (Alcohol & Tobacco) Weapons Fighting Bullying Factor 1 Tier 4 Tier 3 Administrative Response Discipline Review Panel Response to Intervention (RtI) Tier 2 Response to Intervention (RtI) (EBIS) Teacher Behavior Prior Action by Teacher Warning/Document Detention Call Parent/Document Student-Team Meeting/Document Tier 1 Teacher Behavior (EBIS)

9. Discipline Protocols Discipline Review Panel Administrator Follows all Richmond County Discipline Code of Conduct mandates. Sergeant-at-Arms Admit student that is referred to the discipline review panel, keeps order and dismisses student after his or her review. Reporter Reads the offense, records the panel’s consequence.

10. Discipline Protocols Discipline Review Panel Telephone Operator Calls parent to notify of the offense and the consequences. File the information in a notebook. Recorder Records minutes and the action of the panel. The administrator of the review panel meets with the principal and discusses the panel’s recommendations. ISS, OSS, SST/RtI, Rule 20, Tribunal

11. Discipline Referral Rate2008-2009 School Year

12. Discipline Rates First 20 Days of School

13. Teacher’s Disciplinary Tool Box Rituals & Routines (First three weeks of school) How are pencils sharpened? Where are book bags to be placed? How to get in and around the classroom. Turning in assignment. Discuss the total operation of the classroom, etc. Phone logs Conference logs Isolation corner Behavioral logs

14. The End Creating a Climate & Culture for Change Achieving Academic Success Through Standards-Based Practices