Behavior Education Plans

The district’s student handbook is provided to every student and family annually. The handbook summarizes district and school rules, regulations, policies, and expectations for all students. In concert with the district’s elementary behavior education plan and secondary behavior education plan, the district’s behavior education plans provide information on how interventions and consequences for student behaviors may be addressed.

The Behavior Education Plan includes both proactive and responsive strategies and provides a continuum of interventions and consequences to address a range of student behaviors. The Behavior Education Plan is designed to accomplish the following purposes:

• Outline the rights and responsibilities as related to student behavior for students, parents/guardians, teachers/staff, school administrators, central office staff, and Board of Education members, recognizing that all groups have a collective responsibility to support positive student behavior.
• Establish an expectation for adults to teach, model, and reinforce the skills necessary for students to meet CPS behavior expectations at all levels.
• Provide clear and explicit universal expectations for student behavior and to identify those behaviors which are inappropriate at school and school-sponsored events.
• Identify a range of reasonable, proportional, and consistently applied interventions and consequences to respond to behavior and to support positive behavior change in students.
• Ensure students are treated fairly and without discrimination based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.
• Set an expectation that schools work in partnership with parents/guardians with the belief that they play an essential role in the behavioral and academic success of students.
• Use a trauma-aware, restorative, and equitable approach in proactively supporting and responding to student behavior.