Discipline Plan
Gardner’s Great Expectations are our Classroom Rules:
If You Choose to Break a Rule:
Please refer to the Gardner Elementary Student-Parent Handbook on the district website for a more detailed explanation of school rules and severe behaviors: https://www.wcusd5.net/o/waterloo-cusd-5/browse/53932
If You Choose to Follow a Rule:
Rewarding individual students
Rewarding the entire class
Other Behavior Information
- Be Respectful
- Be Responsible
- Be Safe
If You Choose to Break a Rule:
- Non-verbal, then verbal warning*
- Student / Teacher Conference
- Miss some/all of Friday’s reward recess
- Student fills out a behavior slip (must be signed by parent/guardian)
- Parent Contacted
- Office Referral
Please refer to the Gardner Elementary Student-Parent Handbook on the district website for a more detailed explanation of school rules and severe behaviors: https://www.wcusd5.net/o/waterloo-cusd-5/browse/53932
If You Choose to Follow a Rule:
- Boosted Self-Esteem -- feel good!
- Earn tickets to put into raffle
- Attend our reward recess on Friday
- Participate in class parties
- Earn rewards for our school-wide incentive programs
Rewarding individual students
- Your child will have a chance to earn Bow Wow bones, tickets, small treats, and/or play money by being respectful, responsible, safe.
- We have a store where they can purchase reward items and coupons. We also sometimes have ticket raffle drawings where students can win other fun prizes.
Rewarding the entire class
- The class will have a chance to earn parties with our Paw Pride chart, character word of the month letters, bingo board and/or marble jar by working together and making good choices.
- Examples include: the entire class walks quietly down the hall, everyone transitions quickly and quietly, other teachers, principal, or visitors in the building give the class a compliment.
Other Behavior Information
- If something happens during the day, I will write a note in your child’s agenda. Please sign the agenda daily. I might also email or call parents if needed. Consider, no agenda news to be good news!
- Good behavior will be consistently encouraged and highlighted, but good behavior is considered an expectation, not an “above and beyond” choice.
- Classroom behavior expectations will be discussed as a class at the start of school and again as we encounter different situations throughout the year. We will have reminder activities a couple of times throughout the year to keep these expectations fresh in our memory. They can be modified as our class grows and changes throughout the year, but if that occurs, the expectations will again be discussed as a class so everyone always understands what we expect from one another to have a safe, comfortable, and fun learning environment.