1. Campus & Classroom Discipline
Guidelines for Success, Fluency and
Efficiency

2. Issuing Demerits – Classroom Protocol
• Be sure that you follow the protocol of disciplinary
advancement PRIOR to issuing a demerit.
– First: Verbal warning
– Second: Instruct student(s) to place the Demerit card on
his/her desk
– Third: Issue Demerit
• Log the infraction.
• DO NOT use WHOLE CLASS WARNINGS as a practice.
The practice is generally unfair and does not
individually target student associated behavior(s).

3. Importance of Following Demerit
Issuance Protocol in Classroom
• Consistency of expectations with all students
and fairness
• Consistency of expectations with all AWMS
families and fairness
• Limited to NO fluctuation in expectations
between teachers, which offers predictable
structure for students
• Consistency of disciplinary protocol as YOU
ARE REPRESENTED BY ADMINISTRATION

4. Referrals
• When is a referral necessary?
• The student(s) infraction is highly egregious
toward the teacher or another student.
• You MAY or MAY NOT have gone through the
demerit issuance cycle.
• The infraction is such that the student MUST
be removed from the class, as the presence of
the student poses an obstruction to the
further delivery of instruction.

5. Referrals: Log Entries & Email
• ALL discipline AT or ABOVE the issuance of a
demerit MUST be logged.
• Components of a Log Entry
– What happened (May use Level indicator as a
bridge to next section).
– How what happened violates our disciplinary
policy.
– What you did about it.

6. Referrals: Log Entries & Email
• Your Referral is led or followed by an informative email to
administration in this manner:
• Subject Line: REFERRAL (Student’s Initials) or REF (Student’s
Initials)
• Email Body: Students full name, explanation of offence and
any intervention(s) attempted.
– For efficiency, you can copy and paste some of this information
into the log entry.
• This information is important, as it is used as foundational
justification for any administrative discipline.
– It will most likely be copied into the administrative log entry as a
precursor to subsequent disciplinary information.
• Referral emails SHOULD be sent to Administration on the
same day of the infraction, and MUST arrive to
Administration within 24 hours of the infraction.