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Campus & Classroom Discipline

Guidelines for Success, Fluency and Efficiency

Issuing Demerits – Classroom Protocol

Be sure that you follow the protocol of disciplinary advancement PRIOR to issuing a demerit. First: Verbal warning Second: Instruct student(s) to place the Demerit card on his/her

desk Third: Issue Demerit

Log the infraction.

DO NOT use WHOLE CLASS WARNINGS as a practice. The practice is generally unfair and does not individually target student associated behavior(s).

Importance of Following Demerit Issuance Protocol in Classroom

Consistency of expectations with all students and fairness

Consistency of expectations with all AWMS families and fairness

Limited to NO fluctuation in expectations between teachers, which offers predictable structure for students

Consistency of disciplinary protocol as YOU ARE REPRESENTED BY ADMINISTRATION

Referrals

When is a referral necessary?

The student(s) infraction is highly egregious toward the teacher or another student.

You MAY or MAY NOT have gone through the demerit issuance cycle.

The infraction is such that the student MUST be removed from the class, as the presence of the student poses an obstruction to the further delivery of instruction.

Referrals: Log Entries & Email

ALL discipline AT or ABOVE the issuance of a demerit MUST be logged.

Components of a Log Entry What happened (May use Level indicator as a bridge

to next section). How what happened violates our disciplinary policy. What you did about it.

Referrals: Log Entries & Email Your Referral is led or followed by an informative email to

administration in this manner:

Subject Line: REFERRAL (Student’s Initials) or REF (Student’s Initials)

Email Body: Students full name, explanation of offence and any intervention(s) attempted. For efficiency, you can copy and paste some of this information

into the log entry.

This information is important, as it is used as foundational justification for any administrative discipline. It will most likely be copied into the administrative log entry as a

precursor to subsequent disciplinary information.

Referral emails SHOULD be sent to Administration on the same day of the infraction, and MUST arrive to Administration within 24 hours of the infraction.

Try it with this scenario…

Joe comes to class with a fresh “fade” haircut that exposes plenty of skin around the ears and back of the neck. During SSR, Jennifer continues to stare and giggle. Finally she can’t resist and slaps Joe across the back of the head. It can be classified as “The Slap Heard ‘Round the World!” The whole class erupts in laughter… What discipline do you administer? Please compose a log entry that effectively reflects your discipline and next steps.