A safe, positive environment is important to each child's academic success.  We believe that this discipline plan will afford each student guidance in making good decisions about his/her behavior.  We hope to make a difference in the decision each student will make relevant to his/her behavior.  Your child deserves the most positive educational climate possible.  the plan below follows Autauga County's district-wide discipline plan.  It outlines our classroom rewards and consequences for appropriate and inappropriate behavior.

     This year we will be using a "point" system for behavior.  Each day, each student will begin with 3 points IN EACH CLASS.  If a student demonstrates a negative behavior, he/she will lose a point in the class he/she is currently in and it will be recorded in the behavior notebook.  The student will receive a consequence for each point lost:

        1 point - verbal warning

        2 points - loss of brain break

        3 points - loss of brain break, silent lunch, and a discipline step

*At the end of the week, each point lost is 5 minutes taken from Free Friday time.

For each step your child receives on his/her office referral, the following consequences apply:

          Step 1:  Student/Teacher conference

          Step 2:  Parent Notification

          Step 3:  Parent/Teacher/Administrator Conference

          Step 4:  Office Referral

**We will also keep you updated in Parent Square each time our child receives a step.

***Steps will reset at the end of the semester.

     Every Friday, your child will bring home a Friday folder,  It will have graded papers for the week as well as a discipline log.  On the discipline log, we will mark how many points your child lost for the week as well as the behaviors that caused lost points.  If your child received any discipline steps, they will be attached to the conduct sheet.  Please sign this sheet ad any attached steps weekly and return to school the following Monday.  If your child does not return the folder signed on Monday, a silent lunch will be issued until it is returned.  

     We also want to make sure that students are rewarded for demonstrating positive behaviors or going above and beyond our expectations.  Students who behave appropriately will be rewarded with

     - positive notes

     - positive parent contact

     - POWER P's

     - praise

     - other classroom rewards

     If you need to contact me for any reason, please feel free to reach out on ParentSquare or email me at michelle.thompson@acboe.net