Restorative Practices

Relationship.
Respect.
Responsibility.
Repair.
Reintegration.

San Juan Diego Academy understands the  importance of restorative practices when student behavioral issues affect the safety of the classroom and school and interfere with the learning of all students. When choosing interventions and consequences for student behavior, teachers, administrators and all staff must balance SJDA’s goals of ensuring equity, minimizing disruptions and maximizing student instructional time. Consequences paired with meaningful instruction and guidance (corrective feedback and re-teaching) offer students an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

Concerns and Resolutions

LEVEL 1

Responses aim to teach, correct behavior and promote the practice of respect of others, and respect of self along with self-discipline. 

Teachers will try a variety of teaching and classroom management strategies. The
responses are designed to prevent minor behavior issues from becoming major incidents.

Classroom interventions and responses may include, but are not limited to private conversation with student, student break, verbal correction, special seating, alternative activity, time and space for de-escalation, loss of privilege, parent contact/conference, teacher detention, behavior plan, restorative practices, referral to Student Services (SS).

LEVEL 2 

Behavior is more serious and often causes disruption to the school environment.

These behaviors may include a pattern of persistent level 1 behaviors. Interventions involve school administration and aim to correct behavior by stressing the seriousness of the behavior while keeping the student in school. Responses might be similar to those in Level 1 and at times are more intensive and stretch beyond the immediate situation.

Administrative Interventions and responses may include, but are not limited to additional counseling, verbal correction, time and space for de-escalation, special seating, parent contact/conference, loss of privilege, detention, behavior contract, restorative practices, referral to Student Support Team (SST), in-school suspension, exclusion from extra-curricular activities, referral to outside community agency.

LEVEL 3

Violations are more serious in nature and jeopardize order,  safety and/or property damage.

Behaviors may include a pattern of persistent level 2 behaviors. Level 3 interventions may involve short-term removal of a student from the environment depending on the severity of the behavior. The duration of a suspension is to be limited as much as possible, while still addressing the behavior.

More intensive responses in Level 3 may include but are not limited to out-of-school suspension, temporary removal from class, restitution of property or repair of damage, informal meeting with school district personnel, campus or community service, and/or a family home visit and restorative practices.

LEVEL 4

Behaviors threaten the safety and well-being of others.

Behaviors may include a pattern of persistent Level 3 behaviors. Response to Level 4 behaviors may include removing the student from the classroom or school environment because of the seriousness of the behavior. The duration of removal should be limited, as much as possible, while still addressing the behavior.

Responses to Level 4 include all responses in Level 3 and/or more intensive responses such as 5-day suspension with formal hearing, referral to appropriate law enforcement agency, counseling or drug treatment program and/or diversion, restorative practices.

LEVEL 5

Behaviors are the most extreme, often using force, causing harm or injury, involving violence, possession or use of a weapon, causing substantial risk or a pattern of persistent Level 4 behavior.

Responses to Level 5 encompass all responses in Level 4 including 5-day suspension with formal hearing, referral to appropriate law enforcement agency, counseling or drug treatment program and/or diversion, restorative practices.

Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco (also electronic): Possession and/or being under the influence of: Level 3, 4, 5

Disruptive and Uncooperative Behaviors: Level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• Wagering in any form that involves activities with monetary stakes on school grounds or at school sponsored events

• Behavior that disrupts instruction and the learning of other students in the classroom, as well as disrupts school culture and climate

• Lack of prompt, respectful compliance with directions or requests of any school staff member, including teachers, support personnel, secretaries, custodians, and bus drivers

• Taunting, baiting, inciting and/or encouraging a fight, a disruption, or other violation of school rules, including failure to disperse from a fight or disruption when directed by adults

• Volatile Acts, Disorderly, violent, or threatening conduct of a serious nature that significantly disrupts school, a school-sponsored activity, or a school-supervised activity held off of school premises                                                                                                     Level 3, Level 4, Level 5

• Trespassing in unauthorized or unsupervised areas in the building. This includes but is not limited to, entering the classroom or building before or after school. Retrieving equipment.

• Being in the hallway without permission and not returning to class when directed by school staff

• Circumventing school safety protocols, including opening secured exterior doors to permit access to another person

• Any serious misconduct not otherwise addressed within this Plan that directly or indirectly jeopardizes the health, safety or property of a school, the School District, school personnel, other students, one’s self, or other individuals who are present or acting within the school’s jurisdiction

Failure to respect materials, property of others

• Failure to respect materials, property, and stealing from others
  (including, but not limited to, stealing and/or damage to cell phones, other electronic devices and credit cards/debit cards)
  Level 2, Level 3, Level 4

Academic Integrity

• Cheating and plagiarism, individually or as part of a group
  Level 1, Level 2, Level 3

Firearms/Weapons

• Possession of a toy weapon where the toy weapon is used to threaten, intimidate, or harm another person or to cause a disruption
  Level 3, Level 4
• Possession of a weapon, other than a firearm or other gun
  Level 3, Level 4
• Possession of and actual, attempted, or threatened use of a weapon, including firearm, or other weapons toward another person or to cause a disruption. Examples include, but are not limited to, BB guns, pellet guns, flare guns, and air rifles.

• Setting a fire, or attempting to set a fire, activating the school’s fire and/or other alarm systems, making a false alarm call to 911

• Possession or use of fireworks, a smoke bomb, munitions, pepper spray/gas, MACE, tear gas, stink bomb, or any inherently dangerous substance/ object, or any illegal device, illegal product, or illegal material that is not specifically covered elsewhere within the Behavior Education Plan
  Level 4, Level 5

Forgery

• Writing the name of another person to be represented as a writing or original signature of that other person or altering any written record or document (such as dates, times, passes, and permits) without permission
  Level 1, Level 2

Inappropriate Language or Expression

• Swearing, cursing, or making obscene gestures, use of racial slurs, or protected class references directed toward another student
  Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4
• Swearing, cursing, or making obscene gestures, use of racial slurs, or protected class references directed toward a staff member
  Level 3, Level 4
• Serious threats, including the use of social media to threaten someone or to cause a disruption
  Level 3, Level 4, Level 5

Inappropriate physical contact (non-sexual)

• Welcomed or unwelcomed touching hitting, slapping, pushing, grabbing, tripping, shoving, kicking, spitting, or any other inappropriate physical act of aggression by one student directed at another student that does not rise to the level of excessive physical aggression (includes actions considered “play fighting”
  Level 3
• Excessive physical aggression (fighting or a physical attack against a student). Note: Self-defense is described as an action taken to restrain or block an attack by another person or to shield oneself from being hit by another person. Responsive action, such as hitting a person back, is not self-defense and may be considered excessive physical aggression. Note: When a student engages in 3 acts of excessive physical aggression, the student may be suspended pursuant to the behavior response levels in the Behavior Education Plan and may be placed in an alternative setting for 45 or 90 days not to exceed one semester
  Level 3, Level 4, Level 5
• Use of physical force, including the use of an object, directly against or affecting a staff member of  SJDA or any adult who is legitimately exercising authority at the school or during any school activity
  Level 4, Level 5

Inappropriate touching, exposure, and/or sexual contact

• Inappropriate physical displays of affection
  Level 1, Level 2
• Non-consensual touching of a person’s private areas
  Level 3, Level 4, Level 5
• Non-Consensual Sexual Activity: Removing or adjusting the clothing of another person (including, for example, pulling down another student’s pants) in a manner that causes, or was an attempt to cause, the exposure of the other person’s undergarments and/or private areas
  Level 3, Level 4, Level 5

Inappropriate use of technology or materials

• Use of personal cell phone or any non-educationally required device, electronic or otherwise, that detracts from and/or disrupts learning of oneself, or others is prohibited.
  Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4

Inappropriate use of school-provided information technology. Recordings/images of another person
Level 2, Level3, Level 4

• Making, transmitting, or distributing, including posting to the internet, any recording of physical contact, whether or not the participants considered it “play fighting”
  Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
• Making, transmitting, or distributing any recording that has not been approved or authorized by the school of the voice or image of any other student, staff member or other person without the consent of the person(s) so recorded.
  Level 2, Level 3

Sexual, explicit, obscene, or lewd materials

• Possessing pornographic material or observing pornographic material. or partially nude state, regardless of consent
  Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5
• Possessing, making, transmitting, or disclosing any image of any student, minor, staff member, parent, school volunteer, or other adult with supervisory authority in a nudeLevel 4, Level 5