Assistant Principals

How can I win a $50 Gas card?

Donna Oser — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:04:33 -0400

How many are AP/AD combined and what is your student population?

mellis — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:34:27 -0400

On the average, how many behavior referrals do you receive a day?

bonniepalmeri — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:42:33 -0400

I feel that the behavior referral should be one of the last resorts when dealing with students. Utilizing appropriate classroom management techniques and making parent contacts should preface any referral. What steps do you expect your teachers to follow before sending the kid to the principal's office?

Assistant Principals

How are high schools handling the discipline that occur at or near the end of the school year? I am interested in how you handl

kmillin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:17:04 -0400

Assistant Principals

Does anyone have a policy on energy drinks at school?

eyrec — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:39:37 -0400

Assistant Principals

Independent Study

mro — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:47:16 -0400

Does anyone in their high school have teachers that do independent studies for students? If so, what guidelines do you use to comply with state requirements?

Region 7

Senior Debt Collection

PShepich — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:38:45 -0400

Does anyone have policy on senior debt collection? Do you or are you able to withold their ability to attend things like Prom or other after school activities?

Assistant Principals

I would like to know how many middle schools (6-8) still offer recess?

bds — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:20:53 -0400

Administrators

What types of Cell Phone Policies are other schools using?

rkent@brps k12 mi us — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:35:01 -0500

We have a no cell phone policy between the hours of 8:15-3:01 yet teachers comment that students are texting everytime they turn their backs. I would like to know what types of policies other schools are using. We confiscate for 24 hours for a 1st offense.

Region 3

Scheduling Software

dehlers@remc11 k12 mi us — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:23:55 -0500

We in Coloma are switching to trimester scheduling for the 08-09 school year, and have found that the software used for scheduling through our ISD is inadaquate. Does any one know of a stand alone software program available that just does scheduling? Our hope would be to use this program to schedule our kids and then manually input it into our ISD system.

Thank you!

Dave Ehlers

Asst. Principal

Coloma Jr. High

School Reform and School Improvement

Can someone FOIA a copy of an incident from our school security camera or could this violate FERPA?

PShepich — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:23:04 -0500

Policies, Laws, and Court Decisions

Any m.s. programs changed from sewing, cooking etc. electives to "Living Skills" curriculum?

lgrunert — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:05:40 -0500

Assistant Principals

REPOST...Does anyone have Schedule "B" job descriptions and evaluation tools for club sponsors, class advisors, etc?

dferguso — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:42:25 -0500

No pressure, but I need to come up with these for my eval and my kids need new shoes... HELP please.

Technology

Are you offering a summer school program at the middle school level?

lgrunert — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:07:20 -0500

Assistant Principals

What are your expectations/requirements for students taking online classes?

mro — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:44:48 -0500

I am looking for anyone who can share some information with me regarding expectations or requirements you have at your district with students taking online classes. Do you do credit/no credit only or is there a grade involved? Does it count towards weekly eligibility for athletes? Is there a penalty beyond loss of credit or poor grade if they fail the class since it is an extra out of pocket expense for the district?

Region 7

Off campus drug question

PShepich — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:04:55 -0500

Two of my students were arrested off campus in the evening for possession with the intent to deliver drugs. What would your student code of conduct consequence be for this infraction if anything?
Thanks,
Paul Shepich, Principal
Clarenceville High School

Assistant Principals

High School AYP Report Cards To Be Released Friday, November 30

Admin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:35:07 -0500

November 29, 2007

WHAT: The Michigan Department of Education will publicly release the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) School Report Cards for Michigan’s public high schools and school districts. This is the annual report of AYP, as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

WHEN: Friday, November 30, 2007
10:00 a.m.

WHERE: Go to the Michigan Department of Education website
www.michigan.gov/mde

Assistant Principals

Does anyone implement character education with discipline procedures in their school?

skapla — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:58:06 -0500

I am interested in implementing character education within our in school suspension program. Does anyone have a program or procedural guide they use to implement character education within their school? Any input is appreciated.

Assistant Principals

Does anyone do outdoor graduations?

Admin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:25:14 -0400

If you do an outdoor graduation, can you please respond to this question and provide pro's and con's to doing it outside, as well as rescheduling policies/information. Also, if the ceremony takes place on artificial turf, how do you handle that? Any information is appreciated!

Assistant Principals

How are districts handling numerous tardies without using out-of- school suspensions

kwiltshire — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:42:32 -0400

The number of tardies has skyrocketed this year. I can't figure out why.

Region 4

Myspace

gbrown@vbisd org — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:36:10 -0400

Has anyone dealt with the legality of having a student, who is in possession of school property, to show you their private Myspace page to track who/where they sent the school property to? Our admin team is split on this issue. The issues are: Are items sent over the Internet public domain? Is the “public” part of Myspace public domain and the “private” section not?

Policies, Laws, and Court Decisions