Behavior Matrix OSMS 2024

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1	School Tool Infraction	Incident type	Incident Definition	Incident Level	Range of Responses & Code of Conduct Levels
2	Easy to find incident type	Name of incident in SchoolTool	Incident Definition - This first block is descriptor of the boxes for the matrix
3	Easy to find incident type	Specific type of this incident	Examples of incident	Level of incident	Order of range of responses as offense occurs, including code of conduct levels in parentheses
4	Inappropriate Use of Electronic Devices	Inappropriate Use of Electronic Devices	Inappropriate use of school issued chromebook, using cellphone to record person, event, or conversation without permission
5		Technology Violation: Off-task or inappropriate purpose (Minor)	Cell phone in class without permission	Minor	(A) First Offense: Warning with documentation and phone returned to locker (A, B) Second Offense: Retraining with documentation and return phone to locker (A, B) Third Offense: teacher detention (B)Fourth Offense: Office Discipline Referral
6			Searching for sexual, violent or deragatory content	Major	B, C, D
7			Recording another person, event or conversation with permission	Minor	A
8			Recording another person, event or conversation without permission	Major	B, C, D
9			Distributing recorded material from school grounds	Major	B, C, D
10			Accessing an account that is not assigned	Major	B, C
11	In possession or Use of e-cig, vape or tobacco	In possession/Use of e-cig, vape or tobacco	In possession/Use of e-cig, vape or tobacco
12	In possession or Use of e-cig, vape or tobacco		In possession/Use of e-cig, vape or tobacco	Major	C
13	Refusal to follow directions/complete work	Refusal to follow directions/complete work	Refusal to comply to a reasonable request, refusal to change into appropriate attire, refusal to store cell phone/electronic device, excessive talking, outbursts
14		Defiance: Quiet refusal (Minor)	Alternate activity, head on desk	Minor	A
15		Defiance: Prolonged duration (Major)	Prolonged refusal, refuses all redirects, loss of instructional time	Major	B, C
16		Defiance: Refusal during emergency (Major)	Refusal to follow directions in crisis response situations	Major	B, C
17		Disruption: Short term	Using materials to cause noise, low intensity, ex. pencil tapping	Minor	A
18		Disruption: Sustained	Prolonged loud talk, noise with materials; physical display that interferes with learning of others	Major	B, C
19		Disruption: Disorderly conduct	Interferes with the regular operation of the school building or event.	Major	B, C
20	Unexcused absence from assigned location	Unexcused absence from assigned location	Leaving school grounds without permission, walking out of class, leaving class to go to another location and not returning, skipping class, refusing to go to assigned classroom, cutting office, teacher, or lunch detention, not reporting to ISS/Alternative Instruction
21		Inappropriate Location: Failure to report	Not on time to designated area	Minor	(A) First Offense: Warning, disucssion, conversation with student (A, B) Second Offense: 2:30 retraining - use a stopwatch, walk with student from class to class to help them set a schedule for locker, etc. (A, B) Third Offense: teacher detention (B)Fourth Offense: Office Discipline Referral
22		Inappropriate Location: Unassigned area	Failure to report to designated area, hiding in unsupervised area, in unassigned location, leaving an assigned area without permission in the school building. Elopement in school building.	Major	B
23		Inappropriate Location: Off campus	Failing to report to school building or leaving school building without permission. Elopement off campus.	Major	B, C
24	Inappropriate language	Inappropriate language	Argumentative, use of inappropriate language, teasing, swearing
25		Abusive Language: Non-directional swearing	Incidental swearing / nonverbal gesturing not directed at another person.	Minor	(A) First Offense: Warning, disucssion, conversation with student (A, B) Second Offense: 2:30 retraining - discuss and practice using other words/gestures to replace words/gestures being used, etc. (A, B) Third Offense: teacher detention (B) Fourth Offense: Office Discipline Referral
26		Abusive Language: Directional swearing	Swearing / nonverbal gesturing or other abusive language directed at another person.	Major	B, C
27		Abusive Language: Non-directional inflammatory or sexual language	Language and nonverbal gesturing, including sexual language and nonverbal gesturing, that is not directed at an individual that does or could cause to alienate an individual including, but not not limited to, hate speech or descriptions, offensive racial terminology, and/or labels commonly understood to be offensive, demeaning or derogatory.	Major	B, C, D
28		Abusive Language: Directional inflammatory or sexual language	Language and nonverbal gesturing, including sexual language and nonverbal gesturing, directed at an individual that does or could cause to alienate an individual including, but not not limited to, hate speech or descriptions, offensive racial terminology, and/or labels commonly understood to be offensive, demeaning or derogatory.	Major	B, C, D
29	Sexual Harassment	Sexual Harassment	Unwelcome verbal or physical conduct that is sexual in nature
30		Verbal aggression: sexual harrassment	Unwanted or innapproriate comments or remarks of sexual nature directed at someone ex:Making rude or offensive jokes about someone's body or sexuality. Spreading rumors about someone's sexual activity or orientation. Calling someone by derogatory or sexually explicit names. Making comments about someone's appearance in a sexual way. *Asking personal or invasive questions about someone's sexual experiences or preferences.	Major	C, D
31		Physical Aggression: sexual harrassment	Serious, non-accidental, and non-consensual physical contact of a sexual nature (e.g., groping, intimating sexual acts, touching private areas, exposing other's private areas) where the offender(s) or target(s) Includes any intentional contact with private areas of an individual, regardless of intent.	Major	C, D
32	Theft	Theft	Stealing property that is not their own
33		Theft: Less than $10	One-time theft	Minor	A
34		Theft: More than $10	Repeated theft or one-time >$10 value	Major	B
35		Theft: Stealing from individual	Entering an individual's personal space or property (desk, bag, purse, locker, car etc.) to take an item of value	Major	C, D
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38	Academic Dishonesty	Academic Dishonesty	Cheating, plagiarism
39		Lying/Cheating: Daily work	Copying a peer's homework or practice activities, telling a fib/untrue story, and / or allowing homework or practice activitce activity to be copied	Minor	A
40		Lying/Cheating: Plagiarism	Presenting graded or assessed work as your own when it is not your own original work and / or allowing graded or assessed work to be turned in as someone else's	Major	B
41	Dishonesty	Dishonesty	Lying or deceiving staff members
42		Lying: Giving False information, no investigation	Delivering false or misleading information about an incident that does not lead to a school investigation	Minor	A
43		Lying: Giving False information, investigation	Delivering false or misleading information on a document and/or in the course of a school investigation or staff inquiry that may lead to the endangerment of self and / or others, and / or during an investigation	Major	B, C
44		Forgery: Falsification of documents, first offense	Falsifying records or signatures, first offense	Minor	A, B
45		Forgery: Falsification of documents	Falsifying records or signatures, repeated occurance, major documents	Major	B, C
46	Harassment	Harassment	The creation of a hostile environment by conduct or by verbal threats, intimidation or abuse that has the effect of unreasonably and substantially interfering with a student’s educational performance, opportunities or benefits, or mental, emotional and/or physical wellbeing
47	Harassment	Harassment	Any* electronic, written, verbal, or physical act or conduct toward a student which is based on any actual or perceived trait or characteristic of the student (related to race, color, national origin, sex, or disability) where there is a real or perceived imbalance of power that is repeated or has the potential to be repeated and which creates an objectively hostile school environment and meets one or more of the following conditions: Places the student in reasonable fear of harm to the student’s person or property, has a substantially detrimental effect on the student’s physical or mental health, has the effect of substantially interfering with the student’s academic performance, has the effect of substantially interfering with the student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by a school.	Major	B, C, D
48	Endangering the safety of self or others	Endangering the safety of self or others	Involved, or threatening to be involved, in an incident involving physical violence to self or others (including but not limited to hitting, pushing, fighting, biting, kicking, verbal aggression)
49		Verbal aggression	Verbal indication of future mental, physical or emotional harm against another person and / or their belongings, teacher discussion determined not a serious threat	Minor	A
50		Verbal aggression	Verbal indication of future mental, physical or emotional harm against another person and / or their belongings, teacher discussion determined needs further investigation and office intervention	Major	B, C, D
51		Physical Aggression Without Injury: Inappropriate contact	Physical contact that is not serious but is inappropriate and unwelcomed, no injury. Examples; tripping, kicking feet, knee or shoe, pushing, etc	Minor	A
52		Physical Aggression Without Injury: Serious contact	Serious physical contact (e.g., hitting, punching, hitting with an object, kicking, hair pulling, scratching, etc.) where the offender(s) or target(s) recieve medical attention provided by the school nurse, but not by outside medical providers.	Major	B, C
53		Physical Aggression with Injury	Student engages in actions involving serious physical contact (e.g., hitting, punching, hitting with an object, kicking, hair pulling, scratching, etc.) Medical attention provided by the school nurse, but not by outside medical providers.	Major	C
54		Physical Aggression with Serious Bodily Injury	Serious physical contact (e.g., hitting, punching, hitting with an object, kicking, hair pulling, scratching, etc.) where either the offender(s) or victim(s) require off-site professional medical attention for extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious disfigurement, protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or faculty, or substantial risk of death.	Major	C, D
55		Physical Fighting without Injury	Mutual physical fight where the offender(s) or target(s) do not require professional medical attention, regardless of intent. Medical attention provided by the school nurse, but not by outside medical providers.	Major	B, C
56		Physical Fighting with Injury	Mutual physical fight where the offender(s) or target(s) require professional medical attention. Medical attention provided by the school nurse, but not by outside medical providers.	Major	C
57		Physical Fighting with Serious Bodily Injury	Mutual physical fight where either the offender(s) or target(s) require off-site professional medical attention for extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious disfigurement, protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or faculty, or substantial risk of death.	Major	C, D
58	Possession of a weapon	Possession of a weapon	Incident Definition - Having a possession of any knief, shotgun, pistol, revolver, pellet gun or other firearm or weapon with the written authorization the Superintendent, whether or not a license or posses the weapon same as been issued to
59		Weapon: Possession of firearm	Student possesses weapon or realistic-looking fake weapon A weapon is defined as an object that is specifically designed and/or ordinarily used to inflict injury and/or generally regarded as a weapon in most contexts. (Examples: gun, knife, mace. Nonexamples: chair, crowbar, pencil, fire extinguisher)	Major	D
60		Weapon: Threatening aggression	Using a weapon to threaten aggression with other individual(s) or self A weapon is defined as an object that is specifically designed and/or ordinarily used to inflict injury and/or generally regarded as a weapon in most contexts. (Examples: gun, knife, mace. Nonexamples: chair, crowbar, pencil, fire extinguisher)	Major	D
61		Weapon: Possession of firearm (Serious)	Posession of firearm on school grounds	Major	D
62	Property Damage	Property Damage	Participates in an activity that results in destruction or disfigurement of property that is not their own.
63		Property Damage: Technology Violation, still functional	Modification or damage of the district issued technology equipment, still functional	Minor	A
64		Property Damage: Technology Violation, unuseable	Modification or damage of the district issued technology equipment that renders equipment unusable	Major	B, C, D
65		Property Damage: Misuse	Wasting materials or resources or using property in a way not intended. Includes not cleaning up after self.	Minor	A
66		Property Damage: Destruction	Damage or destruction that occurs as a result of an intentional act. May or may not require professional cleaning, repair or replacement. May or may not disrupt the normal operations of the building.	Major	C, D
67	Trespassing	Trespassing	Student goes on property they are not permitted to be on
68	Trespassing	Trespassing	Entering school property without permission and without lawful authority. Ex: On school ground during OSS or after hours.	Major	C
69	Optional Disciplinary Responses	Level	Optional Disciplinary Responses
70		A	Verbal warning/discussion with staff member
71			Reteaching of appropriate behavior
72			Seat change
73			Loss of privileges
74			Teacher detention
75			Behavioral contract
76			Parental contact and/or conference
77			Special written assignment
78			Recommend and refer for counseling
79			Lunch detention (if behavior is repeated after multiple warnings)
80			Office detention (if behavior is repeated after multiple warnings)
81			Alternative instruction (if behavior is repeated after multiple warnings)
82			Other strategies: planned ignoring, proximity, non-verbal cue, positive praise, redirect, reteaching procedure, using reinforcement, error correction, provide choice, conference with student
83		B	Continuation of the more stringent Level A options
84			Verbal warning/conference with student
85			Parental conference
86			Loss of privileges
87			Teacher detention
88			Lunch detention
89			Office detention
90			Alternative Instruction
91			Out of School Suspension - up to 2 days
92			Out of School Suspension - up to 5 days and Principal Hearing
93		C/D	Continuation of the appropriate Level B options
94			Full withdrawal from participation in school activities
95			Referral to outside agency
96			Alternative Instruction
97			Out of School Suspension up to 5 Days and Principal Hearing
98			Out of School Suspension up to 5 Days and Superintendent Hearing