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Terms to Know
IMPORTANT TO KNOW: The CCSMS Progressive Discipline Plan serves as a guide for all school administrators to use when coding incidents and applying consequences for the violated infractions. School administrators have the responsibility of ensuring all discipline referrals are coded correctly before processing; therefore, referrals incorrectly coded will be edited by the school administrator to reflect the correct state coding (once an investigation has been completed). The consequences provided at each infraction level are the highest level of consequence recommended for each offense; however, the assignment of a consequence is at the discretion of the school administrator. To determine the appropriate consequence(s) that should be applied to the violated infraction, the administrator will collect all evidence, use the scholar's academic profile as it relates to Special Education services and other pertinent information, and the severity and impact of the violated infraction to determine the most appropriate consequences to assign. Admins may elect to assign a lower consequence based on the information collected, but must seek the Lead Principal's approval when assigning a higher than recommended consequence.
| Terms to Know | Meaning |
| Progressive Discipline Plan (PDP) | Progressive Discipline Plan that outlines the maximum consequences that can be assigned for all violated infractions. The PDP serves as a recommended guide for all administrators to use when assigning consequences, but should not be used as "THE FINAL DETERMINATION" for addressing scholar discipline concerns. |
| Infraction/Code/ Definition | All infractions, codes, and definitions are assigned by the state and federal government and cannot be altered by a school district. |
| Admin/Parent Contact | Admin makes contact with the parent to ensure communication of an offense and consequence assigned. For example: phone call, text, email, letter/parent note, etc. |
| Admin/Parent Conference | Admin meets with the parent via in-person conference, zoom, or home visit. |
| Loss of Privilege(s) | A school related activity, event, or opportunity may be restricted, to include but not limited to, school related field trips or events, participation in an athletic sport, attendance at an athletic game, attendance to prom, or attendance at graduation, etc. The assignment of consequences will be based on the violated infraction and its impact to school climate and safety. This does not include the permanent removal of a scholar from any athletic or school team (please use your school's athletic handbook when making this decision). |
| Conditional Suspension | A mandated in-person parent conference must take place, but if missed, the scholar is assigned an out of school suspension and returns to school the following day. |
| District Restorative Refocus/Reflection Form | A form that is completed by a scholar and discussed in a teacher/scholar conference whenever a first offense occurs. The form should be updated by the teacher anytime a scholar commits an additional violation for the same infraction, but it does not require the scholar to complete the form an additional time for the same offense. |
| Teacher Managed Referrals | Violations are handled by the teacher and communicated to the parent. All Teacher Managed Referrals require Teacher/Parent contact, all 1st Occurrence referrals require District Restorative Refocus/Reflection Form, 4th teacher managed referral for the same infraction = an Office Managed Referral for 271 Failure to Comply with Disciplinary Action beginning at the 1st Occurrence. For Elementary Schools ONLY- all scholars will be allowed to reset their Teacher Managed Referral counts to 0 at the start of every nine weeks. This does not mean referrals will be removed from the discipline database. All referrals must remain on record. |
| Office Managed Referrals | A referral written by a teacher and processed by an administrator or a referral that has been written and processed directly by an administrator. |
| In-School Suspension(ISS) w/services | Scholar is removed from the general education environment for 30 min or more, but is still allowed to complete assignments and/or receive accommodations within the SpEd environment. |
| In-School Suspension (ISS) | Scholar is removed from the general education environment for 30 min or more, but is restricted from accessing school assignments or receiving accommodations. |
| Temporary Virtual Placement (TVP) | A school may consider placing the scholar on temporary virtual until the hearing has been conducted. If this option is applied, schools must use the temporary virtual placement guidelines and attendance coding that has been provided by CCSD. NOTE: For Special Education Scholars, the school administrator must first coordinate with the Department of Exceptional Children before changing a scholar's placement. TVP may not be the appropriate placement for a Special Education Scholar |
