Progressive Discipline Plan

The Progressive Discipline Plan was developed for all schools within the Vallejo City Unified School District and outlines the Alternative Means of Correction that school sites may use, as well as consequences that may be issued for inappropriate student behaviors. Each administrator must consider the age, intent, and prior offenses of the student in determining the appropriate consequences. Situations not specifically addressed in this plan or unusual or extreme cases will be dealt with in accordance with District Policy and the California Education Code. If action warrants, students may be given consequences of second, third, or fourth offense on the first offense.

Alternative Means of Correction (AMC) may include, but are not limited to (no particular order):

• Parent/Teacher conference

• Parent Contact

• Warning

• Referral to School & Student Accountability staff for intervention

• Restorative Justice

• Teacher Detention

• Administrative Detention

• Exclusion from school activities

• Counseling

• Behavior Contract

• Conflict Mediation

• Parent supervises student in class

• Parent escorts student to/from school

• Saturday School (site specific)

• Student Success Team (SST)

• Student Intervention Team (SIT)

• School Attendance Review Board (SARB)

• Peer Mentoring

• Projects on campus

• In-school suspension (site specific)

• District Behavior support plan

• Restitution

• Community Service

Home/School communication is critical to our student’s success. Therefore, ALL interventions, including most AMC, shall include a parent contact and/or conference. We want our families to be partners in education at all times.

In accordance with Education Code 48911, all home suspensions shall be preceded by an informal conference conducted by the principal or the principal’s designee, the pupil, and whenever practicable, the teacher or supervisor or school employee who referred the pupil to the principal. At this conference, the pupil shall be informed of the reason for the disciplinary action and the evidence against him or her and shall be given the opportunity to present his or her version and evidence in his or her defense. At the time of the suspension, a school employee shall make a reasonable effort to contact the pupil’s parent or guardian in person or by telephone, and the parent or guardian shall be notified in writing of the suspension within 24 hours. If the parent/guardian cannot be reached, the student’s emergency contact number will be called. If the student is released to someone other than the parent/guardian, the school will make arrangements to meet to discuss the situation with the parent/guardian.