Common use of CLASSROOM CONTROL Clause in Contracts

CLASSROOM CONTROL. 1. SPS will support and uphold employees in their efforts to maintain a safe and welcoming environment in accordance with SPS Policies and SPS Student Rights and Responsibilities. Using professional judgment, the employee will request assistance if a student substantially disrupts the classroom environment and will provide written information/requests for assistance as required. Substantial disruption means significant interference with instruction, school operations or school activities, violent physical or verbal altercations between students, or a hostile environment that significantly interferes with a student’s education. It will be the responsibility of the appropriate administrator to provide assistance in an immediate or timely fashion consistent with the circumstances. 2. Consistent with SPS discipline procedures, the principal and certificated employees of each building shall confer at least annually for the purpose of developing and reviewing building discipline standards and the enforcement of those standards. (WAC 392-400-110). 3. Employees are required by law to maintain a suitable environment for learning, and administrators have the responsibility for maintaining and facilitating the educational program. A student who by their behavior is substantially disrupting the classroom environment may be removed from a class pending action by SPS, subject to the provisions of SPS regulations and procedures in accordance with State law and Chapter 392-400 WAC. Students shall be removed from the classroom only for the violation of established rules as set forth in the SPS Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, the laws of the State of Washington, Chapter 392-400 WAC, or the rules and regulations of SPS and the Federal Government. 4. A student may be removed immediately from a class, subject or activity by a certificated teacher and sent to the building principal/program manager or other designated school authority provided the teacher has good and sufficient reason to believe the student's presence poses an immediate and continuing danger to the student, other students, or school personnel or is an immediate and continuing threat of substantial disruption of the class, subject, activity or educational process of the student's school, according to Chapter 392-400 WAC as now or hereafter amended. 5. The student will remain out of the class, subject or activity only until the danger or threat ceases or until the building principal/program manager or other designated school authority acts to conference with student about behavior, impose discipline or short-term suspension, initiates a long-term suspension or expulsion, or imposes an emergency expulsion. 6. Prior to the time the student is returned to the class(s), subject(s) or activity(s), the building principal/program manager or school authority will notify the teacher who removed the student of the action which has been taken or initiated. 7. SPS discipline policies and procedures must provide for early involvement of parents in efforts to support students in meeting behavioral expectations (WAC 392-400-110). 8. All visitors will obtain the approval of the principal/program manager or their designee, prior to entering a classroom. The principal/program manager will contact the employee regarding the pending visit and will respect a request to postpone the visit if the timing would be disruptive to the activity taking place at the time. Visitors will be encouraged to contact the teacher to schedule the visit. Each school shall develop a plan to accommodate visitors during the spring assignment process. Prior to the adoption of the plan, the principal/program manager shall seek input from staff and parents. This does not apply to classroom visits by SPS personnel.