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Alianza Procedures Index:

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Cum Folders

PeaceBuilders

   Aide Schedules

Daily Patriotic Observance 

Phones 

Alianza Song

Disaster Procedures

Rainy Days

Alianza Beautiful

 Duty Schedule

 Resource Center

Attendance 

 Evaluation Timelines

School Schedules

Attendance Problems

Field Trips

 Staff Meeting Procedures

Behavior

Guests & Visitors

Students & Office

Bells

Lunch

Weekend Access

 Bulletin & Accents

  Mandated Cost Logs

 Work Schedules

Cafeteria Procedures

Money & P.O.s 

Child Abuse

 P2 Release TimeSchedule

Committees
 

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1. Attendance

> IMPORTANT! A daily count of the number of students is required in order to determine the amount of financing Alainza will receive. This is computed on average daily attendance (ADA). For that reason, it is important that records be kept accurate and up-to-date. Attendance however, can also illustrate the feelings and attitude students have developed toward their class, their school, or education in general. Evaluations of programs often include the statistics of daily attendance per classroom for the purpose of evaluating the school atmosphere and student attitude. It behooves us then, to give this item our attention not only as a clerical task, but as a challenge to make our school program so interesting they don't want to miss a day!

Teachers are required to clear absences daily.

Students who do not return absence notes promptly may be referred for detention, per Alianza Discipline Referral system. Please make this a daily responsibility so that we can reduce the extra work that uncleared absences impose on the office staff.

2. Attendance Problems

> Our objective is to make sure that student absences are cleared daily.

> It is the responsibility of the teacher to clear absences each week.

> Procedures for truancy (3 days or more, chronic absences, etc.) are as follows:

>> Every quarter the attendance clerk will use the computer to scan students to identify students who have been absent for 3 or >> The attendance clerk will complete an Absence Concern form and mail it to the parents.

>> Chronic absentiism (1 day per week, 3-4 consecutive days montly, regularly unexcused absences, etc.) should be reported to office staff after initial phone contact has been made or is attempted by teacher or aide.

>> Problem continues: Principal makes home visit and/or sends written warning in the mail. (last warning).

>> Problem continues: Written truancy referral made to CWA office.

3. Cafeteria Procedures:

> Money transactions for lunch tickets must take place before school.

> Each class must approach the Kitchen from the outside hallway, lined up in alphabetical order.

> Each class must sit at their assigned tables. Classes are responsible for cleaning their tables. The area on and around their table must be picked up and the table must be sponged.

> Each class must have two lunch table cleaners. One to sponge off the table and another to sweep the floor under their table.

> Balls and jumpropes may not be taken to tables. They must be put on the stage.

4. Child Abuse:

> If you suspect a child has suffered some kind of mistreatment in their home, YOU MUST report it within 24 hours. You must:

>> complete a CPS form.

>> call and report to a CPS caseworker. Information and forms are available in the office. Phone 763-8800.

> If you suspect mistreatment has occurred somewhere else, for instance at school, the incident must be reported to the POLICE. If in doubt, REPORT! Better to err and report than to risk your professional career.

> Please understand that if it is reported that a staff member has mistreated a student, we are obligated to reprt the incident to the POLICE. KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF.

5. Cum Folders:

> Maintaining complete CUMS is the responsibility of the classroom teacher. The home room teacher is responsible for assuring that required documents are completed and filed as appropriate. CUM's may not be removed from the office area. Information in the cums is CONFIDENTIAL and may not be shared with other parents or non-school staff.

6. Daily Patriotic Observance

> A Daily Patriotic Observance is required to be done daily in your classroom by State Education Code. District Policy REQUIRES that this be the Flag Salute. Please see the principal immediately if this policy will not be implemented in your classroom.

Wednesday Morning Flag Salute Procedures

1. ALL LINE UP at 8:55 bell. The teacher is required to supervise each class. All school staff members are requested to participate in the flag salute.

2. ALL READY at 9:00, students are to be in line, and quiet, by class.

3. FLAG SALUTE led by the principal. Language will alternate.

>> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> Juro lealdad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de America, y a la republica, que representa, una nacion, bajo Dios, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos.

The National Anthem: The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight'
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Written by Francis Scott Key on September 14th,1814.

America the Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain.
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

Click here for more info on the Flag

4. AMAZING ARMADILLOS of the WEEK are recognized.

5. SCHOOL SONG is sung by all in both languages.

>> Alianza, Alianza, Alianza is our school, We're proud to be bilingual and our classes are so cool. Alianza Armadillos, together we will stay, making friends and having fun, that's the Alianza way!

>> Nuestra escuela Alianza, Alianza es para mi, Bilingües y orgullosos, todos que van aquí, Alianza Armadillos, juntos estaremos, divirtiendo y compartiendo, es la escuela para mi.

6. LOTTERY winners are announced.

8. ANNOUNCEMENTS may be made.

9. ON TO CLASS, led by teachers or aides.

7. Field Trip Requirements

> FIELD TRIP PROCEDURES

From the District:

Taking a Field Trip with your class is one of the most effective tools we have in education today and we want these trips to be fun, educational and safe for our students. Like all school districts we have forms for all occasions, along with procedures and guidelines to follow.

Procedures for local Field Trips:

8. Guests and Visitors:

9. Mandated Cost Logs:

10. Phone:

11. Rainy Daze

12. Resource Center Use

13. Rules for the Management of Money and Purchasing

14. Students & Office:

15. The Bulletin & Accents:

16. Weekend Access

17. Lunch Procedures

18. Student Behavior

Discipline

  • When this happens outside the classroom the student receives a CITATION.
    • Yellow copy to student
    • White copy would be put in the student's teacher's box.
  • In the classroom this would mean that a student's name would be put on the chalkboard, a card moved or whatever system the teacher is using.
  • Students DO NOT receive CITATION forms in the classroom.

The REFFERAL FORM looks like this: (click)

  • WHITE Copy goes to Administator.
    • If assigned detention, this WHITE copy must be in CENTRAL DETENTION FILE on top of the cabinet next to the hall door in Michael's office.
    • It should indicate that you have contacted the parents (by telephone, signed Detention Notification Form or signed note) and that they know the student has detention. Do not submit a white copy if the parent has not been contacted.
  • YELLOW Copy goes to student
    • Attach to Detention Form if student assigned to Detention.
  • PINK copy either stays with Teacher or is returned to teacher by administrator.

Direct Referral to the principal does not involve Central Detention.

  • The student is sent to the principal with the ALL copies of the Referral Form.
  • It should only be used in the event of a serious infraction of the rules, eg: a fight, weapon, sexual harassment, rascist action, etc.
  • The Discipline Referral should reflect a progressive, controlled response to student misbehavior. Most cases of disruptive classroom behavior can be effectively addressed by the progression of steps. It should not be used as a result of frustration that intensifies because initial misbehavior was not addressed in the early stages.
  • It results in a phone call to parents and may include one of the following consequences:
  • Saturday School with the Principal
  • After School Detention with the Principal
  • Suspension at home
  • Suspension at school
  • Involuntary/Volutary transfer to another school
  • Expulsion

Rules & Behavior Expectations

District Policy

19. Bell Schedule: (click)

20. Alianza Instructional Minutes Schedules for the 2002/3 School Year: (click)

21. School Plan Action Items from the Alianza Master School Plan:

22. Alianza Beautiful

23. Disaster Procedures

24. Staff Meeting Procedures

25. PeaceBuilder Info

 

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