Student Conduct
Encourage your child to make good choices in behavior every day!
Expectations, Processes , & Procedures
Expectations, processes, and procedures are in place for the children’s safety and to ensure good conduct among the students. Each teacher sets a standard of conduct students are expected to follow. The guidelines below provide the general expectations our teachers have for our students. Please discuss these guidelines with your child to ensure he/she understands the teacher’s expectations.
When students are unable to follow guidelines, appropriate discipline will be administered. Students who follow the rules are recognized and often rewarded.
Promoting and Reinforcing Personal Responsibility for Learning, Positive Behavior, and Good Citizenship
Promoting and Reinforcing Personal Responsibility for Learning, Positive Behavior, and Good Citizenship
In the Tupelo Public School District, students are expected to exhibit responsible behavior and to maintain positive attitudes that will contribute to their own well-being and the well-being of others. One goal is to promote an atmosphere within the schools conducive to learning, and another goal is to help children become responsible for good personal conduct at school. Schools work to improve school climate through use of the Safe and Civil Schools approach. Strategies outlined in their resource, Champs: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management, are practiced.
See our district website at https://www.tupeloschools.com/programs/champs for more information on Safe and Civil Schools and the Champs approach.
Each school has a certified school counselor and a social emotional therapist who can provide counseling services. As part of the curriculum, the school counselor can conduct classes and workshops for the students in their classrooms. Topics include goal setting, time management, responsibility training, and citizenship.
Integrity Time is a unique program taught by parent volunteers, designed to help increase positive and appropriate behaviors and decrease discipline referrals. The program helps build self-esteem and provides students with many opportunities to be responsible. Students also become aware of socially acceptable behaviors and positive character traits. When we provide direction and security, students often respond quickly with better behavior and improved academic performance. We want our students to have lives filled with satisfying work, meaningful achievements, and good relationships. We want them to make good decisions, and we want them to be active participants in their democracy.
Character must be consciously taught, developed, and practiced. This teaching has always been a parent's job, but there are also critical supporting roles to be played by everyone in a community. After all, character really counts in school, in the workplace, and the workplace, and in life. Acknowledging student demonstrations of good character is important. We expect the student to do the right thing even when there is no one around and there will be no immediate reward. Therefore, recognition is emphasized more than reward when it comes to reinforcing positive character traits for long-lasting effects. Examples of recognition strategies abound. Staff and students alike send notes to anyone living out a character trait. Assemblies, parties, and picnics are great opportunities for school communities to celebrate progress and publicly acknowledge TPSD's commitment to character education.
Bullying Prevention and Violence Prevention
Activities are emphasized through events such as "Start with "Hello"-Week" and "World Kindness Day." Throughout the school year, activities district-wide, school-wide and in the classrooms teach and reinforce the importance of respect and treatment of others. Students are taught the importance of treating others with kindness and respect.
The Tupelo Public School District and Tupelo Police Department school Resource officers (SRO) work with students K-12 to develop positive habits and behaviors. This enables our students to deal with character issues directly and at an age that is developmentally appropriate. Our students work with a good role model in a positive environment. Through many learning opportunities TPSD emphasizes teaching and recognizing positive behaviors and good citizenship.