“Educating With Care” 3925 Wales Avenue Memphis, Tennessee 38108 901-416-4222

1. 2014-2015 JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-WIDE DISCIPLINE PLAN “Educating With Care” 3925 Wales Avenue Memphis, Tennessee 38108 901-416-4222

2. Guiding Principles • Beliefs • Students need to apply their learning in meaningful, real-life academic experiences that motivate them to do their best. • Student learning is our main priority. • Innovative ways of involving parents in the education of their children must be established. • Teachers, administrators, parents, and the community should be committed to ensuring that students become confident, self-directed life-long learners. • School Character Points • Diversity should increase students’ understanding of different cultures within our school. Increased TCAP achievement scores in all disciplines. Reading- 49% Math- 59% Science- 70% Social Studies – 86% • Values • All stakeholders share responsibility for advancing the school’s mission.

3. Mission Our mission is to provide opportunities for students to learn skills, acquire knowledge, and develop character within a diverse, nurturing, learning environment.

4. Vision Our vision is to provide a safe, welcoming, and challenging environment for learning. The social, intellectual, and emotional growth of every child will be supported by learning in the areas of reading, math, science, social studies, and technology. All students will be encouraged and expected to strive for their personal best.

5. Goals and/or Objectives • To utilize PBIS Training, Responsive Classroom Training, Kingian Non-Violence Training, Lee Canter’s Assertive DisciplineGuide, Peaceable Schools Training, Harry Wong’s The First Days of School, and Memphis City Schools Board Policies on student behavior as a framework at Jackson Elementary. Students are treated in a firm, fair, and consistent manner daily. • In addition, we will comply with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Guidelines for Exceptional Children. Based on data from 14-15 Jackson Elementary PBIS surveys, our results have improved. • To date, we did not have any suspensions for SPED students over 10 days. Therefore, we will continue our best practices for current disruptive behaviors.

6. SCS Discipline Committee Worksheet2014-2015 Internal Coach: Maria Todd, Guidance Counselor

7. DisciplineCommittee • The committee will meet outside regularly scheduled times, based upon an increase in discipline referrals and student behavior. • Cindy Geater, GOS, will input data in Chancery/SMS.

8. Reasons Not to Refer a Student to the Office for Discipline: • Refusing to do their work • Getting up out of their seat • Chewing gum • Talking in class

9. Meeting Schedule(Classroom teachers meet 3-times per week in PLC meetings to discuss discipline strategies.)

10. Principal's Brag Report Jackson Elementary School 3925 Wales Ave. Memphis, TN 38108 Yolanda Heidelberg, Principal DATE: ____________________________________ FACULTY/STAFF: ___________________________________________ LET ME TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BRAG ON WHAT I OBSERVED. KEEP UP THE OUTSTANDING WORK!!!!!! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________

11. School Procedures • Procedures for entering school • Students arrive at 8:00 a.m. and enter the main door to eat breakfast. If a student chooses not to eat breakfast, then they stand in the hall and are monitored by Support Staff. All students in grades PreK-3 will participate in morning meetings from 8:30 – 8:45. Announcements are made at 8:35. School rules and Kingian quotes are recited daily. • Closing of school • Students are escorted out of the building and dismissed by their classroom teacher. • Lunchroom • Students enter quietly and stand in the serving line. Each class has an assigned table. Students are to use their 6-inch voice to engage in conversation. The Cafeteria monitor manages the cafeteria. • Assemblies • Students enter quietly and sit at an assigned table with their classroom teacher.

12. School Procedures (continued) • Referrals • Teachers are reminded that good planning usually reduces the number and severity of discipline problems. • Each teacher should handle all routine classroom discipline problems in the room and follow up with parent conferences when necessary. • Any severe discipline problem should be brought to the attention of the principal immediately. • Students who exhibit persistent problems of lying, cheating, stealing, poor attitude, habitual absences, etc. should be referred to our guidance counselor. • Teachers will use the Assertive Discipline Training, Kingian Non-Violence, PBIS Training, and Responsive Classroom Training.

13. Classroom Procedures • Implement classroom rules, including rewards and consequences. • Establish organizational procedures for the beginning and ending of each day. • Teach and model expected behavior for halls, restrooms, and cafeteria. Utilize school–wide verbal cue “Tighten Up.” • Hall passes – Students are to use a hall pass when leaving the classroom and must walk with a buddy. • Conduct morning meetings in grades PreK-3 using the Responsive Classroom model.

14. School Wide Incentives • VIP Luncheon- Students with good conduct and work habits will sit with Principal and selected faculty and/or staff members at a special table during their assigned lunch period each Friday. • “Catch Me at My Best” – Students’ names are announced for being great citizens by turning in lost money, picking up trash without being asked, and just doing what is right! • Excellent behavior in cafeteria earns “doggy bones” toward a low-fat ice cream social, fat free popcorn social, movie social or good doggy behavior certificate at the end of each nine weeks. • Community School Awards are given to students at local nearby businesses displaying excellent behavior in the community.

15. “Catch Me At My Best”

16. Jackson Elementary 3925 Wales Ave. Memphis, TN 38108 Yolanda Heidelberg, Principal Bulldog Traits in the Community Displayed the Bulldog Trait of: Respect Responsibility Caring Citizenship (Check the trait you observed) Signature If you would like to write on the back the details of what you observed, feel free! Thank you for supporting our youth!

17. Teacher Incentives • Attendance stickers/treats • Class rewards for perfect attendance • Party for getting perfect attendance for a specific period of time • Daily or weekly healthy treats for achieving good conduct.

18. Teacher Incentives

20. Resources for Incentives • Adopters -Life Church -Lenny’s -Dove Family Dentistry - Parkway Gardens Church • Community agencies & businesses -Kingsbury High School Partnership -MLGW -Maines Paper Products -Methodist North & University • PTO funds

21. How we teach the rules and procedures School-wide assemblies Annual student orientation of school rules and SCS Board Policies are introduced School rules are repeated daily over the intercom each morning and afternoon in English. In addition, we recite Kingian Quotes daily. Teachers will discuss rules and model procedures in the classroom. (What it looks and sounds like.) Morning Meeting Rituals- Responsive Classroom for grades K-3.

22. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” “El amor es la unica fuerza capaz de transformar un enemigo en un amigo.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

24. Behavior Expectation Matrix for Jackson Elementary School Rules

25. “La no-violencia no se trata de derrotar o humillar al oponente, sino ganar su amistad y comprension.” “Nonviolence does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.”

26. Tertiary Interventions • The school support team will identify and plan for student intervention based on office referrals and teacher recommendations. • Functional Behavior Assessments and comprehensive Behavior Intervention Plans will be completed as needed. • Success of the interventions will be monitored through CPT and the number of office referrals.

27. Student Behavior Plan

28. Jackson Elementary The Quiet Zone SHHH!! You have just entered, “The Jackson Elementary Quiet Zone!”

29. ProgramElements • Responsive Classrooms - PreK-3 teachers, Principal, and PLC Coach) • RTI – Response to Intervention – Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor (ongoing) • Kingian Non-Violence-Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor (ongoing) • Mendez • Too Good for Drugs – Ms. Rivers, P.E. Teacher/Healthy Team Leader • Too Good for Violence – Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor (ongoing) • Peaceable Schools – Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor (ongoing) • Red Ribbon Week – Ms. Rivers, P.E. Teacher/Healthy Team Leader & Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor (October 27-31, 2014) • No Bullying – Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor (ongoing) • Lee Canter’s Assertive Discipline – Principal (August 2014) • CharacterEducation – Classroom teachers, Librarian (ongoing) • VIP Luncheon – Jackson Staff (ongoing)

30. Character Education • The Heartwood Character Curriculum is implemented each month through stories, discussions, activities, home assignments, journal-keeping and interdisciplinary projects to help students develop critical thinking, conflict resolution, and problem solving skills by the classroom teacher.

31. Responsive Classroom • Teachers were introduced to the “morning meetings” in grades PreK-3 during the 09-10 year by the Principal. • PreK-3 Teachers received Responsive Classroom training in July 2011. • Principal attended Responsive Classroom training for 2014-15 school year. • Selected Teachers attended Responsive Classroom training during Summer 2013 at Riverwood Elementary.

32. Harassment and Bullying Prevention • Annual harassment training was presented by the Guidance Counselor during in-service week July 2014. • Trained faculty regarding the prevention of harassment and bullying behaviors, including defining bully/intimidation, recognizing early stages, and providing strategies for addressing these behaviors. • Kingian Non-Violence Training was conducted by the Guidance Counselor. • Introduction of policy #6046 Student Discrimination/Harassment/ and Bullying /Intimidation. • Parents were trained about SCS Bullying Policy on September 8, 2014, by Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor.

33. School Safety Plan • All visitors are required to sign in using the Raptor system. • All staff members are instructed to ask any trespassers if they have a “Visitor’s” badge and direct them to the office. • Security will be called immediately in the event of any emergencies. • “Mr. Lock-It” is announced in the event that an intruder is found inside the building. • All students and parents are encouraged to report to the Principal if any student threatens or bothers our students at school, on the way to school, or on the way home. • Directions and procedures for fire drills and Civil Defense drills are posted in the office and each classroom. • All visitors will sign in and out on the Visitor’s Sign-In Sheet and obtain a “Visitor” badge from the office. Visitors must leave a form of collateral to receive a badge such as a driver’s license or keys. • Designated evacuation site in the event of a Civil Emergency. • Site: Blacktop behind the school • - Dates of review: Ongoing • -Emergency Management Plan review: September 1, 2014

34. 2014-15 EDUCATIONAL OCCUPANCY EMERGENCY DRILL RECORD • JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL • Mrs. Yolanda Heidelberg, Principal • Ms. Deborah Anderson, PLC Coach • A record of all fire exit drills shall be kept on the premises. • Fire exit drills shall include complete evacuation of all persons form the building. • Fire drills shall be held at least once a month. • Evacuation time for fire drills shall be limited to three (3) minutes. FIRE DRILL Addendum: Drill schedules are subject to be change based on the weather, safety issues , or other conditions, etc. TORONADO DRILLS EARTHQUAKE DRILLS MR. LOCK-IT

35. School Safety Plan

36. Emergency Drill Schedule

38. Monitoring Process • S-Team • During an S-Team, the members discuss a child’s history by reviewing the cumulative record. Present levels of performance, attendance, and guidance screenings are addressed. Input is solicited by all stakeholders. • The Guidance Counselor submits a log of each student that is referred and informs the Principal of the student’s status. • PBIS Committee will review data and report findings to faculty during Faculty Meetings on Wednesday.

39. Monitoring Process • Data is discussed during: • Faculty Meetings • Weekly PLC Meetings • And • Monthly Discipline Committee meetings

40. Action Steps • Discuss PBIS Assertive Discipline with all teachers. • Mentors will be provided as needed. • Teachers were informed as to what is classroom-managed behavior and what is office-managed behavior to reduce the number of office referrals during the July In-service of 2014. • Faculty will jigsaw a variety of classroom procedures as gleaned from Harry Wong’s TheFirst Daysof School andAllen Mendler’s Connecting with Students. • PrK-3 teachers participated in The Responsive Classroom training.

41. Prevention Programs • Responsive Classroom methodologies- PreK-3 Teachers, PLC Coach • No Bullying –Guidance Counselor • Too Good for Drugs –Physical Ed. Teacher/Healthy Team Leader • Too Good for Violence – Ms. Todd, Guidance Counselor • Red Ribbon Week- Physical Ed. Teacher/Healthy Team Leader, & School Nurse • Gang Awareness • D.A.R.E.- Officer Leake • Family Life Curriculum –Physical Ed. Teacher/Healthy Team Leader & School Nurse • PBIS Training – Counselor, Instructional Facilitator, Teachers, and Principal • Social groups – Ralph Rodgers, Social Worker Dr. Ralph Rogers, School Psychologist Abby Brown, School Psychologist Maria Todd, Guidance Counselor • SCS- Rhonda Hill Discipline-Student Services and Angela Hargrave • Guidance Services- Randy McPherson

44. Action Plan All teachers carefully analyze various data sources. (Insight and Surveys ) The following items are important to Jackson: • Booster training activities for students are developed, modified, and conducted based on school data. • School-wide behavior support team has a budget for (a.) teaching students, (B.) on-going rewards, and (c.) annual staff planning. Consequences for problem behaviors are defined clearly. • Consequences for problem behaviors are defined clearly. • Strategies • Behavior support team meets (scheduled on the calendar monthly) to review student behavior files which includes chronic behavior problems. (meetings subject to need) • Certain teachers or staff can be designated as “emergency friends” to escort students to “safe rooms” when the student is seriously out of control. • Solicit support from our adopters to provide incentives for teaching and rewarding students. • Teachers can request mentoring in supervisory skills by staff. • Guidance counselor provides support in positive parenting in parenting classes that are held on Monday mornings. • SCS Posters are created and provided for each classroom that reminds students and teachers of consequences for specific types of infractions. • Positive Parenting tips are sent home periodically. • Principal will continue to conduct new student orientation for all students who are new to our school. • Parents are included in these meetings to help increase likelihood of success and to encourage parent involvement. • Teachers attend in-service that promotes skills on supervising students and monitoring their behavior. (PBIS Committee- Kingian Non Violence) • Certain teachers or staff members are identified as “safe rooms” where students can be placed to reflect on their behavior and calm down when necessary. • Review of types of infractions and consequences in faculty meetings periodically. • Students referred by teachers are discussed with teacher and brainstorming sessions held to discuss options on improving problem behaviors.

45. Intervention Plan The following intervention strategies will be used as needed to assist our students. • Guidance Referrals- Maria Todd Conferences with pupil Attendance/Tardies Guidance Screening Conferences with parent Anger Management Self-Esteem Building Conflict Management • Mental Health Center Referral School Psychologist School Social Worker • Department of Human Services Referral Case Worker • Colonial Hearing and Vision Center Referral Vision Hearing • Consequences of Misbehavior Cafeteria Lunch Isolation Police Department In-School Detention Home Suspension Board Suspension or Expulsion • Discipline Committee Referrals SCS Gang Prevention Unit • Utilization of Behavior Intervention Manual (BIM) • Adopters- Dove Family Dentistry, Life Church, Parkway Gardens, MLGW, Maines Paper Products • HUG- (Hello, Update, Good bye) • PTO funds • SCS- Randy McPherson, Guidance Services Rhonda Hill • Angela Hargrave • D.A.R.E. – Officer Leake

46. Evaluation • What are you using to evaluate your indicators of progress? • The Jackson Elementary Discipline Committee will meet monthly to determine if the interventions are working based upon the number of referrals being generated. • Indicators of Progress: A reduction of student referrals

47. Celebration • Jackson Elementary has a culturally diverse student population, which allows the students to obtain a better understanding of how children from other cultural backgrounds live their lives. • Honors Sock Hop – An annual nine-weeks event for those students who have achieved Principal’s Honor Roll, Honor Roll, Perfect Attendance, and Citizenship. • TCAP Pep Week – a week of test preparation, contests, fun, and prizes. The week is topped off with a school wide pep rally to gear everyone up for the Big Test. • Creative programs: School-wide talent show • JCAP Super Bowl party • Back to School Ice Cream Social

48. Celebration (continued) • Incentives • Student behavior will be charted in the cafeteria using “good behavior stickers”. • Each class will receive a “good doggy sticker” on a chart for good behavior each day. The class(es) having the most “good doggy stickers” at the end of each nine weeks will receive a certificate and recognition by the Principal during the Honors Program for that nine weeks. • Students with good behavior and work ethics will eat lunch with the Principal and other designated faculty members during their regular lunch time each Friday

49. Presented To Jackson Elementary Good Bulldog Behavior Award For “Good Bulldog Behavior” in the Cafeteria During the Nine Weeks Yolanda Heidelberg Deborah Anderson Principal PLC Coach

50. Jackson Elementary Good Doggy Behavior Chart Teacher: Nine Weeks Grade/Section: