RESPECTFUL RESPONSIBLE SAFE PREPARED

I WILL...
Help create an environment where teachers can teach and everyone can share in successful learning
Cooperate with all members of the school community.
Respect others, the environment and myself. By following this code of conduct, I demonstrate that I am capable, connecting and contributing.

The threefold goal of The Rice School/La Escuela Rice Code of Conduct is:
1. To set the expectations that students always will be held accountable for the behavior they CHOOSE.
2. To show students how to MONITOR their behavior, and
3. To give students practice in EVALUATING the behavior they choose on a moment - to - moment basis.

Cooperative Discipline is a philosophy of social learning that emphasizes the responsibility of all members to the community. Within this system, there are clear limits stated as a "Code of Conduct" based on the vision and values of the entire school community. Cooperative Discipline establishes an environment for social learning that emphasizes COURTESIES AND EXPECTATIONS. You choose your behavior, and you are responsible for the effect of your chosen behavior on the community. It is the responsibility of your teachers to provide consistent modeling of appropriate community behavior and consistent supervision and correction of student behavior.

As a student of community behavior, remember:
1. I am responsible for learning the expectations of my community.
2. I choose the ways that I behave.
3. I understand that my appropriate behavior impacts positively within my community.
4. I also understand that my inappropriate behavior impacts negatively within my community.
5. I know that I am accountable to my community for my chosen behaviors.