To help build our school into a learning community where high social and academic goals are both attained Green Meadow School uses an approach known as The Responsive Classroom. It is built around six central components that integrate teaching, learning and caring in the daily program. These components are set in the context of commonly shared values, such as honesty, fairness and respect, and are implemented through the development and strengthening of social skills, such as cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy and self control.

BEHAVIOR CODE AND SCHOOL DISCIPLINE

Our Code of Conduct represents our vision, values and expectations of how everyone in our school community will behave. There are four guiding principles:

• I am responsible

• I am respectful

• I am considerate

• I am safe

Establishing clear rules and standards is the first step in fostering appropriate behavior. When students understand what is expected of them, they learn to make appropriate choices about how to behave in a variety of situations. Establishing consequences for inappropriate behavior teaches children that they are responsible for their behaviors and the choices they make.

Many of the rules that follow deal with safety-related issues; some emphasize respect for other people and for property; a few fall into the category of good manners. They are all important in maintaining a positive school climate that is conducive to learning.

Consequences are most effective when they are immediate and appropriate to the infraction. It is important that students understand there will be consequences and accept responsibility for their actions. Every effort will be made to apply the consequences in a consistent manner.

Maintaining appropriate behavior needs to be a cooperative effort among the child, the staff, the parents and the administration. Parent cooperation will increase the effectiveness of this discipline code. We ask that you be supportive of our efforts to provide a safe and pleasant school environment, where each child can gain academic knowledge while learning to get along with others and become a responsible person.

We ask that you discuss this code with your child and let him/her know that you are not only aware of the rules and consequences but that you support them.

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