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Andrew_hi_5_4.jpgPositive Discipline

GUIDELINES FOR APPROPROATE INTERACTIONS WITH OTHERS:   

  1. Show respect and consideration to others.
  2. Show respect and consideration to  yourself.
  3. Show respect and consideration to the environment.

POSITIVE DISCIPLINE GUIDELINES:

  1. The teacher practicies positive discipline daily with all children, reinforcing positive behavior and applying immediate natural consequences to misbehavior in an individual, quiet, non-threatening and non-humiliating way.
  2. Teacher informs administration when a pattern of mis-behavior begins to occur.
  3. Teacher documents the behavior for a week or two looking for patterns,strategies, solutions, etc. and coming up with a Positive Behavior Plan with the assistance of the Individual Needs Coordinator.
  4. Teacher meets with parents and administrator offering a Positive Behavior Plan for the student including a specific desired outcome or target behavior and specific rewards for reaching goals.  This plan is administered for 3-4 weeks by both the teacher and the parents.
  5. The teacher, administrator and parents meet again in approximately one month later to discuss the outcome.
  6. During this process, the parents are encouraged to obtain the help their child needs outside of the resources of the school, ie assessment, counseling, therapy, etc. to support the successful participation of the student at school. 

SAFETY CONCERNS:

  1. If a student is a threat to the safety or well-being of others, the parents will be asked to pick up their child from school and keep their child home the following day.  During that time, the parents are expected to find the outside support needed to help their child succeed when returning to school.
  2. If the student continues to threaten the safety or well-being of others, the parents will be asked to pick up their child and keep their child out of school until the outside resource they have obtained meets with North Wall’s teacher and administrator about their child.  At this time the outside resource and the parents are expected to present a Positive Behavior Plan to North Wall that enables the student to return to school without threatening the safety and well-being of others.