TIER 1 BEHAVIORS
Disruption
Definition: Creating or contributing to a moderate disturbance that disrupts the normal operation of the school environment but doesn't pose a threat to the health or safety of others.
Disrespectful Behavior
Definition: Communication or actions that demonstrate a lack of respect or courtesy toward an individual (peer or adult).
Examples include: dishonesty, rudeness, eye rolling, interrupting the teacher or other students, making inappropriate noises, refusing to follow instructions, ignoring instructions, talking back, openly challenging authority, mocking or ridiculing their peers, purposely distracting others, preventing others from participating in class activities, inability to alter behaviors after repeated warnings from teachers or other supervising adults
Insubordination
Definition: Student conduct deemed as repeated unwillingness to submit to authority or refusal to respond to a reasonable request.
Verbal Dispute
Definition: A confrontation between two or more students without physical aggression or injury.
TIER 2 BEHAVIORS
Verbal Altercation
Definition: A hostile confrontation between two or more students involving the use of profanity and causing a substantial disruption.
Offensive Language/Gesture
Definition: Use of disgusting, hurtful, obscene or foul language, communication, or action.
Intimidation/Threat Toward a Student
Definition: Use of coercion, force, threats, violence, intimidation or similar conduct, that constitutes a threat to another student’s safety or interferes with school purposes.
TIER 3 BEHAVIORS
Major Disruption
Definition: A behavior that jeopardizes the health and well being of other students.
TIER 4 BEHAVIORS
Hate Speech
Definition: Any use of abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds will not be tolerated in schoo