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Student Safety
Gateway Community Charters is committed to maintaining safe and secure campuses for all students and staff. To that end, a comprehensive school safety plan covers GCC’s policies and expectations regarding the practices of each school in maintaining the security of the physical campus, responding appropriately to emergencies, increasing the safety and protection of students and staff, and creating a safe and orderly environment that is conducive to learning.
All school employees receive training in the Comprehensive School Safety Plan upon joining the school, and review any changes to the Plan annually. All GCC Schools have a safety plan addendum, in accordance with this plan, that describe school-specific policies/schedules such as schedules of safety trainings, schedules of drills, disaster plans, dress codes, policies for safe ingress/egress, and policies regarding student discipline.
Student Discipline
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Student Discipline
GCC believes that one of the major functions of education is the preparation of youth for responsible citizenship. GCC shall foster a learning environment that reinforces self-discipline and the acceptance of personal responsibility. All GCC sites incorporate the Capturing Kids Heart (CKH) process known as Behave In – Behave Out. This process is designed to help students manage and accept responsibility for their own attitudes and behavior.
The process uses four (4) basic questions:
- What are you doing?
- What are you supposed to be doing?
- Are you doing it?
- What are you going to do about it?
In addition, GCC works with students and families to provide a safe school environment that provides students with the opportunity to have a quality education. Each school has developed a process for handling, and if necessary escalating, individual cases of student misbehavior. Strategies may include but are not limited to:
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- Relocating the student’s desk to a different part of the classroom/resource room
- Assigning different or additional work appropriate to the infraction
- Utilizing a peer mediation or student conflict resolution program
- Individual conversation with the classroom/resource room teacher about behavior and consequences
- Utilizing a written referral framework
- Designating selected classrooms/resource rooms and teachers (typically, lead teachers or advisors) as places for “time out”
- Referring students to the principal or a designee
- Contacting parents/guardians; and/or
- Requiring the student to attend before/after school detention or Saturday detention
- Referring student to Student Study Team
