Behavioral Adjustment Program An intervention program that has a preventative discipline component and a developmental component that develops a plan to improve students behavior.
Behavioral Contract Agreement between students, parents and staff member that specifies behaviors that must be changed and consequences to follow if behavior is not changed. The contract may specify a reward for successful completion.
Chronic Three times per marking period.
Conference Meeting between student and/or parent/guardian and staff member.
Continued Disruptive Behavior Behavior that disrupts the educational process despite any intervention process previously taken.
Disruptive Behavior Any behavior which interferes with the educational process in the classroom/school building.
Expulsion The exclusion of students from attending their regular school setting and may be put into an alternative site program.
Extreme Defiance Hostile refusal to comply with a directive or behavior that interrupts the educational program.
a. is motivated by an actual or perceived characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression; or a mental, physical or sensory disability; or by any other distinguishing characteristic; and
b. a reasonable person should know, under the circumstances, that the act(s) will: (1) have the effect of harming a student or damaging the student’s property; (2) place a student in reasonable fear of harm to his/her person or damage to property; or (3) have the effect of insulting or demeaning any student or group of students in such a way as to cause substantial disruption in, or substantial interference with, the orderly operation of the school.
PRC Pupil Resource Committee
Peer Counseling The counseling of students on how to handle problems or situations by other students.
Peer Mediation Voluntary participation in a structured process where a neutral third party assists disputing parties in identifying and satisfying their interests relative to the dispute
SAC Substance Awareness Coordinator
Scholastic Dishonesty includes the following forms of cheating:
A. copying from another student's test paper; or
B. using material during a test which is not authorized by the person giving the test; or
C. collaborating with another student during the test without authority; or
D. knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting, in whole or part, the contents of an unadministered test; or
E. substituting for another student or permitting another student to substitute for one's self to take a test; or
F. bribing another person to obtain a test that is to be administered; or
G. securing copies of the test or answers to the test in advance of the test; or
H. Plagiarizing
1. appropriating another's work and using as one's own for credit without the required citation and attribution
I. Colluding
1. engaging in fraudulent collaboration with another person in preparing written work for credit.
J. Tampering with, changing, or altering a record or document of a school by any method, including but not limited to computer access or other electronic means.
Sexual Harassment/Assault engaging in sexually suggestive comment, innuendoes or propositions; inappropriate physical contact of a sexual nature such as touching, patting, pinching, etc. Engaging in physical sexual aggression.
Superintendent's Suspension a suspension that is used when a principal believes that a student is so disruptive as to prevent orderly operation of classes or other school activities, present danger of physical injury to other students or school personnel, or that he/she will benefit from an alternative educational experience. The principal shall refer such cases to the appropriate assistant superintendent, giving a brief summary of the student's behavior.
Suspension a function of the school principal, is a serious disciplinary sanction which may be taken against the student; withdrawal of a student from his/her regular classes for a given period of time; such action is to be taken only as a last measure after all other disciplinary techniques have been exhausted.
Truancy and Class Cutting Failing to come to school when mandated and leaving school property without permission and inciting other pupils to truancy.
Withdrawal of Privilege Possible elimination from school wide activities that are not related to the educational program.