- Mission Statement: Our mission at Freedom High School is to provide and ensure an active learning environment that maximizes student engagement and the safety of the school community. In addition, we desire to promote the healthy social and emotional well-being of all students, free from potentially undesired distractions. In order for all students to reach their fullest potential, the use of personal electronic devices will be restricted during assigned instructional time. Appropriate interventions/consequences will be applied.
- Noise Induced Hearing Loss:
- Electronics must be in bags during instructional time
- Either on desk or in bookbag
- Sign out on SmartPass on student’s chromebook
- Student will turn in cell phone ad be given a classroom bathroom pass before they leave the room
Tier 1: Management of electronic devices within the classroom
- All teachers are responsible for clearly communicating and enforcing their procedures for engaging students without the use of electronic devices (other than their school Chromebooks) during instructional time
- During what is defined as “instructional time” by the teacher, the universal expectation is that phones and other personal electronics are put away (in envelopes that are on the desk or in a backpack). Electronics must have the volume off.
- If a student asks a teacher to hold onto their phone because they know they will have trouble keeping it away, the teacher may hold onto it if they are comfortable, but are not required to offer that accommodation.
- Electronic devices must remain in the classroom when a student leaves to use the lavatory.. The teacher should hold onto the student’s device(s) in a designated area while they are gone.
- Teachers have the prerogative to issue “brain breaks/cell phone breaks” but are not required to do so.
- Students who do not follow their teachers’ procedures will be addressed through verbal communication and then parent contact, as outlined by the teacher in their classroom management plan
- If a student presents an extreme disciplinary issue (i.e., defiance, argumentative, disrespectful, etc.), the teacher will call Office 101 for a hall monitor to immediately escort the student and their phone to 101, and then follow up with a referral as needed.
- Students who continue to have a problem keeping their electronic devices away after classroom-level interventions have been implemented will advance to Tier 2 consequences
Tier 2: Management of electronic devices by Administration
- Phone will be confiscated and kept in 101 until the end of the school day
- Removed from an administrator or a hall monitor
- After 3 “strikes,” the parent will need to come and pick up the phone
- Mrs. DeJesus will document each student’s device confiscation
- Administrative consequences will be given as necessary