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Code of Conduct changes await U-46 board vote

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 is set to vote on changes to the Student Code of Conduct at its upcoming meeting on Monday, June 26. The changes were presented on June 5.
  The changes largely include correction to grammatical errors, updated internet links and updates to dates and contact information, according to a memo from David Bell, coordinator of culture and climate.
  “The changes you see are mostly in language and in revising of definitions and revising of behavior event titles,” Bell said. “And the primary reason for that was, my work this year was focused a lot on trying to increase consistency in how the behaviors are applied and increase consistency on how they’re being documented.”
  Bell added: “A lot of this work that I did with the safety council… was to try to revise the language so that it reduced the redundancy and the overlap that we saw in some of these behaviors. And the primary goal was to try to fix the thermometer so we knew what the temperature was in the building. We don’t know what the temperature is if the data’s coming in in different places and different words are being used. So, a lot of those revisions, almost all of them are around trying to make sure that the thermometer is better equipped and can give us a better idea of what is going on in the schools.”
  The safety council meets monthly, Bell said, and includes representatives of teachers, administrators, parents and community members.
  Bell’s four-page memo detailing the changes shows various language changes and removal of terms including to sections for Statement on Student Behavior and Equity, Rights and Responsibilities, Behavioral Interventions, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Defined, Disciplinary Procedures, Behavior Events - Offense Types and Levels, Consequences, Behavioral Supports and Interventions, Dress Code Guidelines, Searches and Glossary of Terms.