Classroom Culture Plan

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Expectations

Consequences

Students are always considerate and respectful of everyone in the classroom. Students
speak and act in a respectful and supportive manner. Speaking out of turn, interrupting
others, combative or suggestive body language, and negative commentary are unacceptable
and will not be tolerated.
Students are respectful of the classroom environment and work to maintain the safe, clean
environment that has been established. No one is admitted in the room without an adult, items
can be left in the room with permission, but the door will be locked if an adult is not present;
items left in the room at the end of the day will be stored in a safe place until claimed. Food,
gum and drinks are not permitted in the classroom.
Students are always working to develop their knowledge and skills both inside and outside of
the classroom. Professionalism, social skills, cultural and financial awareness should be
developed along with conceptual understanding of the curriculum.
Students are always engaged and active in the classroom, and students are always expected
to try.
1. Verbal Redirection: given only once during the lesson before the student is invited to step out for
an informal conference
2. Informal Student-Teacher Conference: student instructed to wait in the hallway for the teacher,
only when class is working independently will teacher step out and conference with student. After
conference, student asked if they are ready to return and invited back into the classroom.
3. Detention: first infraction will result in lunch detention with me for the entire lunch period, second
infraction will result in 15min afternoon detention with me, and third infraction will result in formal
school detention. Detention will be tracked on physical attendance sheet and posted for students.
If detentions arent completed by the end of the week, parents are called.
4. Student-Teacher-Parent Conference: student will call parent/guardian during class, and teacher
will inform parents/guardians of their behavior and schedule time for a conference. Coaches,
Extracurricular Activities Leaders, and Administration will be notified and invited to conference.
5. Administrative Action: student will be ejected from classroom and will not be able to return until
teacher corresponds with parent/guardian in a conference with an administrator or via email.
Entrance

Routines and
Procedures

Students enter the room, collect any worksheets/ packets present on the
table by the door, sit at assigned seats, take out materials, and submit
homework assignments in Work bin placed on desks/tables.
Students complete the Do Now (also on the board). Teacher checks notes
and does attendance simultaneously within first 2-5 minutes of class.
Students copy the Classroom Notes (notes include: date, standard, essential
question, objective, agenda, homework) from the board.
After allotted time for Do Now (5-8 minutes), students share out Objective,
Agenda, and Homework. After reviewing the lesson plan, the Do Now will be
placed in the Work bin and various responses to Do Now will be shared out
(5-10 minutes).
Students review directions for tasks, receive clarifying instruction if
necessary, and begin first task in agenda.
Students will keep their Classroom Notes throughout the entirety of the
lesson, as the Essential Question (which will later be used as the Exit Slip) is
in the notes. At the conclusion of class, Classroom Notes, additional texts
and resources, and any homework worksheets stored in their Science
Folder.

Tardy

Tardy students will be admitted to the classroom by either the teacher, or a

student asked by the teacher.
Students will begin copying notes from the board and placing any homework
in the HW bin. The tardy student will NOT be allowed to complete or receive
credit for the Do Now (which is 50% of the participation grade, and if
collected becomes a graded assignment).
After the notes are copied, the student will be told (individually or during a
classroom check in) what part of the agenda the class is currently completing
and will be expected to begin at that point.
Classwork for tardy student will be collected or extended as part of a
classroom directive. Tardy students will not be allowed extra time during the
lesson to complete work.
If a student wants to make up any portion of the classwork that was missed,
that student must come back during lunch or after school to complete missed
work.

Finished early

Students that have finished the assigned work early will have one of two
options: begin the assigned homework, or retrieve an assignment from the
EC (extra credit, used to compensate for missed assignments) folder. Any
accurately completed EC assignments will be submitted the next day in the
HW bin.
If the majority of students finish early, students may work on homework, or
engage in quiet discussion until the next task or end of the lesson.

Exit

Collecting Work

Dismissal

Students will receive a warning to indicate the last 8 minutes of class.

In their Classroom Notes, students will attempt to answer the lessons
essential question as the Exit Slip.
The Exit Slip will be the same each day (always the essential question).

All work will be placed in the Work bins located at desks or tables.
Unless the Do Now and HW are collected during the first 8-12 minutes of
class, the Do Now, classwork, and HW will be collected at the end of the
lesson as students are dismissed.
The Classroom Notes and Exit Slips from the entire week will be collected at
every Friday (***unless the unit ends on a day other than Friday Classroom
Notes will be collected the day the unit ends regardless of the day of the
week)
Students will receive their graded Classroom Notes on Monday and place
them, along with a reflection on their understanding of and confidence within
the unit.
***During the lesson after the end of the unit (regardless of the day of the
week), students will review grades from the unit, place any additional
Classroom Notes in the Science portfolio, work on any make-up assignments
the teacher decides to make available to the entire class (only Classwork can
be made up, missed labs will be modified to make-up assignments) and
reflect on their progress within the class using a structured reflection
worksheet. After this day, make-up work from the completed unit will no
longer be accepted unless it is stapled to a notice of an excused absence.

As the teacher is collecting work from the bins, student notes will also be
checked (check plus, check or check minus) daily to ensure that students
have retrieved the notes from the board and completed the Exit Slip.

Student
Incentives

Family
Engagement

Classroom Notes, HW materials and any additional resources provided will

be placed in the students Science Folder.
Once an entire table group has been checked, they will be dismissed by the
teacher to go to their next class.

Individual

Verbal Praise
EC opportunity
Grab Bag (candy/gum or small toy)
Letter of Recommendation (placed in Science Portfolio, used as necessary)

Group

Verbal Praise
EC opportunity
Lunch on me
Letter of Recommendation (placed in Science Portfolio, used as necessary)

Class

Verbal Praise
Class wide EC opportunity
Choice of lesson (lab activity, video or Socratic discussion)
Outside activity ***weather permitting***
Potluck
Free day (non-science activity, video or Socratic discussion)
Letter of Recommendation (placed in Science Portfolio, used as necessary)

At the end of each unit, students will reflect on their work, their grades and their progress
within the class using a structured reflection worksheet. Students will add that reflection along
with evidence (graded Classroom Notes with answered Essential Question) to a Science
portfolio kept in the classroom. Science portfolios will be used to assess student progress
during conferences.
Teacher will learn extracurricular activities of students and informally update coaches on
student progress.
During formal conferences with parents, guardians or other supportive adults associated with
the student, the teacher will use Classroom Notes, weekly reflections, Unit reflections and
other along with evidence from the portfolio to dictate discussions of student progress.
During parent-teacher conferences, students will present one unit reflection along with the
accompanying evidence to their parents and discuss progress, grows and glows.