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Student Handbook

5525 W. 34th St.

Second Floor

Indianapolis, IN 46224

Phone: 317-693-5613

Newcomer Program Vision Statement:

The Newcomer Program educates and values the rich

diversity of newcomer students and families by

providing both a challenging academic environment and comprehensive

community partnerships that foster empowerment and growth for global

citizenship.

Newcomer Goals for the Year:

1. Use ESL and teacher-help to learn grade-level content

2. Understand and be able to use clear checklists, rubrics, and

assessments to understand and track my grades

3. Increase use of English by speaking, listening, reading, and writing

every day in every class

Adults and Roles:

Name Position Title/ Subject How they can help Mr. Arturo Rodriguez Newcomer Program

Coordinator - Help when you’re not sure

where to go - Emergencies

Ms. Patricia Garza

Administrative Associate - Give her medical notes - Change phone number or

address

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I understand!

- If you’re going to be absent, tell her

Ms. Susana Colgan Parent Involvement Educator

- Information about family events - Bus or transportation questions - If your family has questions - Garden questions

Mr. Mario Salinas Social Worker - Personal problems at school or at home

- Legal questions or problems Ms. Raquel Plata Counselor - Transcripts and credits

- Transitioning to your new school Ms. Katherine Hinkle Literacy Coach - Helps with everything

Ms. Kate McGinn Media Specialist - Library cards - Computer research - Find a new book or magazine

Mr. Andrew Slater Teacher - Earth and Space Science - Biology - Leader for Student Life

- Behavior questions or problems - Positive behavior rewards - Help with homework - School questions

Ms. Allison Apland Teacher - 7/8th grade Science - 9th grade Earth and

Space Science

- Help with homework - School questions - Help speaking Arabic

Mr. Ethan Hoffman Teacher - Algebra 1 and 2 - Basic Skills math

- Help with homework - School questions

Ms. Rebecca Nunley Teacher - 7th and 8th grade math - 9th Developmental

Reading


Mr. Andy Gaunce Teacher - 9th grade English


Mr. Robert Weber Teacher - 9th grade ESL


Ms. Kendra Weilenman Teacher - 7th/8th grade English/

ESL


Mr. Wilbur Jackson Teacher - 7th/8th grade social

studies - 9th grade US History


Mr. Matt Harsanyi Teacher - 9th grade US History - 9th grade Math Lab


Mr. Humberto Rodriguez

Teacher - Physical education - Heritage Speakers’

Spanish

- Help with homework - Sports and school questions

Ms. Sheila McPherson Teacher - Physical education

(gym) - Health

- Help with homework - Sports and school questions

Ms. Elisha Pepperman Teacher - Visual arts


Mrs. Kristin Gladish Teacher - Music

- Help with homework - Music and school questions

Ms. Rachael Mitchell Teacher - 5th/ 6th grade


Ms. Emily Dupnick Teacher - 3rd/ 4th grade


Ms. Jocelynn Gutierrez - Bilingual Assistant Help speaking these languages:

- Spanish Ms. Jama Riley - Bilingual Assistant

Ms. Alejandra Garza-Gutierrez

- Bilingual Assistant

Ms. Nuvia Caceres - Bilingual Assistant

Mr. Diego Lemus - Bilingual Assistant

Ms. Charlotte Uwimbabazi

District Bilingual Assistant Help speaking these languages: - Swahili - French - Kinyarwanda

34th Street 246 Mitchell

248 Dupnick

254 Community Room 254A Colgan

Elevator Stairs

Restroom

258 Slater 262 Apland Stairs

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Green Lockers

Blu

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Dark Green Lockers

249 Rodriguez 251 McPherson 253 Hinkle

253A Principal

255 Office Prayer Room

257 Computer Lab

261 Pepperman

265 Staff Lounge

Stairs

Stairs

272 Weber

271 Hoffman

274 Gaunce

273 Nunley

276 Harsanyi

275 Weilenman

278 Jackson

277 McGinn

280 Student Support

279 Computer Lab

Stairs

Restroom

194 Gladish

For MUSIC:

Use BLUE hall and

down stairs

For CAFETERIA/GYM

Use GREEN hall then

RED hall and down

stairs

Illegal substances

No drugs, alcohol or weapons on

school property.

Mr. Rodriguez can search your locker, bag or you any time.

Anti-discrimination and Harassment

A student cannot be discriminated against because of race, color,

religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation.

race and color religion national origin

sex disability age sexual orientation

Incident/ Injury Reports:

If a teacher or student is hurt at school, we must report it immediately!

Bullying - Bullying is prohibited

o Bullies can be one student or groups of students

o There are 4 kinds of bullying:

o Physical: hurting other people

o Social: leaving people out

o Verbal: saying mean or hurtful things

o Cyber: saying or doing mean or hurtful things on

the internet or via text

o Students may not bully

o At school

o Traveling to and from school (on the bus)

o At school events

o If you see someone bullying or being bullied, talk to an

adult in the building immediately

o Consequences for bullying are serious

o In-school suspension

o Out-of-school suspension

o Out-of-School Suspension and Parent Conference Regarding

Probation/Alternative Placement/Expulsion

Cell Phones/ Electronics/ Headphones:

You can have your phone at school but it should be off or on silent.

You cannot use your phone or headphones in class or in any hallway. If adults see your phone, they will take them and

the teacher may give it back to you when they decide.

You can use your phone in the cafeteria

during breakfast and lunch.

You cannot record, have, view, send, or share pictures or videos of

violence or sexual content at school, school events, or the bus.

If you have an emergency, your family can

call the school at 317-693-5613.

Gang and Criminal Activity:

No gangs, destructive behavior, or illegal group behavior on school property, on school buses,

and/or at school events.

No retaliation against individuals who report gang or criminal organization activity, destructive

or illegal group behavior, or who are victims, witnesses, bystanders, or other people with

reliable information about these activities.

Dress Code:

Students must wear the IPS uniform: Pants/Skirts – black, navy blue or khaki color

Shirts – polo of any color

Shoes – no open-toed shoes or sandals

Hoodies – no sweaters or jackets with hoods

Sweaters or jackets – must be a solid color

Hats – no hats, headscarves or bandanas,

except for religious reasons

Put hats in your lockers or a teacher will take them

- Out of Uniform Passes

are good for ONE DAY

ONLY

- If you do not wear your

uniform, your family

must come to bring you

one OR you will serve a

detention during lunch.

-If you do not wear your

uniform again, you may

have to meet with the

principal, clean tables in

the cafeteria, and/ or

serve an in-school

suspension

Arriving Tardy:

• You must be in class before the bell rings

• If you arrive after the bell, you are late or tardy

• There are consequences for arriving tardy

# Consequence Picture

1 • Talk to teacher

• Solve the problem (locker or bathroom problem?)

• Warning

2 • Lunch detention – teacher comes to the cafeteria and student eats with a teacher and helps clean the classroom

3 • Loss of passing period

• Call your house

• Write a referral to Leader for Student Life

Arriving Tardy Continued:

4 • Be a teacher assistant (cleaning, scraping gum off tables, helping elementary students, presenting about your behavior, or other)

5 • In School Suspension (ISS) with no phone

• No regular class and no lunch with friends

• Alone all day with a teacher, working

6 • Out of School Suspension (OSS)

• You cannot come to school for one day

• Your family must come to have a meeting about the tardy problem

Expectations around School

o Bathroom • Use the bathroom quickly between classes or with a

pass during class

• Talk quietly – no yelling

• Hands to ourselves – no pushing or hitting

• Keep water fountains clean – no spitting or trash

• Flush the toilet and use the trash can

• Turn your water off – no throwing water

• Use only what you need – no wasting water or paper towels

o Hallway/ Hall Passes • You have 3 passes per quarter

• You cannot leave in the first or last 20 minutes of class

• Write your name in pen

• Please walk quietly in the hallway

• Kissing, touching, and running is not allowed in the hallway

o Classroom • Be on time and ready for class

• Only use approved electronics

• Use English as much as you can

• Stay in your seat

• Listen and follow directions

• 1 voice at a time

• Do your best work

• Ask for help - raise your hand

• Use respectful language with each other

o Cafeteria • Respect the food service workers

• Take the correct number of foods

• Wait in line patiently

• Put your trash in the can – No throwing food

• Clean up your table and the floor – No trash on the tables

• Stay in your seat – No walking on chairs or tables

• You must have a pass to leave for tutoring or detention

Breakfast - the government requires that students take 3 things

1 milk

1 juice

1 graham cracker OR

cereal

1 milk

1 piece of fruit (banana

or orange)

1 graham cracker

1 milk

1 juice

or fruit

1 hot item

Lunch - the government requires that students take:

1 milk

1 entree

2 different sides (fruits and vegetables):

o Bus • The driver’s job is to transport you safely

• There are many dangers and distractions on the

road so LISTEN TO YOUR DRIVER

• Your driver may tell you where

to sit – Please move to that seat

without arguing

• Do not listen to music without headphones

• Riding the bus is a privilege – if there are problems, you can no

longer ride the bus

o Lockers

• Only you can use your locker

• Your locker combination is a secret

• No food except your lunch

• Mr. Rodriguez can search my locker anytime

o Library • Using the library is a privilege

• How can you respect the library books, library space and the librarian?

o Take one book at a time

o Guard your book

o Whisper when you’re in the library

o Do not write in the books

o If your book is in your bag, be careful with juice and milk

o Be careful turning the pages so they don’t rip out

Core Values:

• Students at the Newcomer Program are responsible, respectful, hardworking, and kind.

• These are things we do every day at school, in class, on the bus, in the cafeteria, and in

the hallway

Be Kind • Think about other people’s feelings

• Think before you speak

• Help people

• Smile

• Introduce yourself to new students

Be Responsible •

• Be honest

• Study after school

• Balance your life

• Make plans

• Remember important things

Be Hardworking

• Ask questions

• Participate in groups

• Finish your work

• Pay attention

• Make mistakes

• Take notes

• Do your homework •

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Be Respectful

• Be on time

• Take turns to talk

• Raise your hand

• Use kind words

• Listen and follow directions

• Be honest

• Clean up trash

Rewards:

• When you exhibit core values, you can earn blue tickets

• Write your name on them and save them

• On Friday, at lunch you can turn in your blue tickets for prizes!

o 5 Blue Tickets = Hall Pass

o 10 Blue Tickets = Choose 1 prize

from Prize Bucket and draw for

No Uniform Pass

o 20 Blue Tickets = Milkshake AND

No Uniform Pass

What if chart (consequences for good and bad behavior):

What happens if I follow class rules? What happens if I do not follow class rules? Teacher can:

• Praise you

• Call your family (good news!)

• Make you DJ for the day

• Make you Queen/King for the day

• Give you a shout out to the class

• Give you a “No Homework Pass”

• Give you an extra bathroom pass

• Give you a blue ticket

• Nominate you for student of the month

Teacher will:

• Redirect

• Make eye contact

• Stand closer to you

• Talk to you privately

• Ask you to move seats

• Give you a different assignment

• Give you a lunch detention

• Give you community service

• Give you an after-school detention

• Ask you to step out of class

• Move you to a buddy class

• Call home

• Refer you to Mr. Slater to help you follow class rules

Consequences:

• If you do not follow school rules, there are

consequences.

• Teachers use the following information to give

you consequences based on the behavior.

Consequences and Behaviors, continued

Teacher - Managed Administration- - Managed Level 1 Behaviors

Usually dealt with by teacher and involve natural consequences

Level 2 Behaviors Assistance from Administration,

Support Staff etc.

Level 3 and 4 Behaviors

• Talking during instruction

• Eating/drinking in class without permission

• Using profanity/ Inappropriate comments

• Uniform violation

• Leaving class without permission

• Refusal to work or follow a reasonable request

• Being tardy

• Misusing equipment and materials

• Public displays of affection

• Using electronic device without permission or refusal to surrender when asked

• Persistent level 1 behaviors

• Using profanity towards staff member or other student

• Truancy

• Academic Dishonesty

• Drug/alcohol use

• Fighting

• Bullying/Cyber-bullying

• Gambling

• Leaving campus without permission

• Vandalism

• Aggressive language towards others

• Aggressive physical contact

Level 1 Consequences:

Lunch detention (classroom cleaning, removing gum, emptying recycling,

writing an apology/reflection), call home, re-explanation of teacher

expectations, removal of privilege, after-school detention.

Level 2 Consequences:

• Restorative conversation with teacher, student(s) and Mr. Slater and/or support staff

• Community service

• Parent conference

• Behavior/attendance contract

Binders:

• Carry with you ALL day!

• Helps organize your classwork and homework

• You MUST keep your binder organized!

• Track your tests, grades, and English learning

Assessment:

• It is important to know how you are being graded

• You will track your state tests and classroom grades

• Your teachers will give you rubrics

• Practicing listening, speaking, reading, and writing is essential

Check your grades at Schoology.com

Username: Student ID number

Password: Birthday mm/dd/yyyy

Example:

Username: 2540000

Password: 3/14/2000

Rubric

Letter Grade

Reteach/ Reassess 60%/ F

(No < 60%)

70%-61%/ D

80%-71%/ C

90%-81%/ B

100% - 91%/ A

What your

rubric says

Not Yet

Meets Standard

Meets Standard/ Exceeds Standard

Exceeds Standard

Visual

What you need to

do

I am not able to complete English language activity with help

I am able to complete English language activity with help

I am able to complete English language activity with a LITTLE help

I am able to FULLY complete English language activity with NO help

I am able to FULLY complete English language activity with NO help. I can explain the activity to a peer; I can show advanced understanding

LOOKS LIKE

What teachers look for

Most important

↓

Less important

No work done/ completely inaccurate No understanding of activity

No participation and/ or engagement

Work that it is very difficult to read

No work turned in

Many errors

Only some work done

Did not participate and/ or engage

May be sloppy work

May have been turned in late

Some errors

Not complete

Participated/engaged part of the time

May be sloppy work

May have been turned in late

Mostly accurate (1-2 ERRORS)

Completed all work

Participated and engaged in lesson/activity

Fairly neat work

Completed on time

Completely accurate (NO ERRORS)

Completed all work

High participation and engagement

Neat work

Completed on time

What can I do if I do not understand?

• Ask your teacher a clarifying question

o Can you repeat that? Can you say that again? o Could you say that again slowly? o Can you explain that? o Can you give me an example? o What do we need to do? o Can you show me what to do? o What does this word mean? o How do you say this word? o What is my grade in this class? Why do I have this grade?

• Visit your teacher during lunch to study

• Talk to your advisory teacher about your grades

• Ask your teacher how to study

Calendar:

Student Contract (student copy):

I, _____________________________ agree I will

follow these rules and if I do not I agree to the

consequences. I will be respectful, hardworking, kind,

and responsible. If there is a problem, I will ask for

help. If I do not understand, I will ask for help.

Name _________________________________

Signature ______________________________

__________________________________________________________________

Student Contract (school copy):

I, _____________________________ agree I will

follow these rules and if I do not I agree to the

consequences. I will be respectful, hardworking, kind,

and responsible. If there is a problem, I will ask for

help. If I do not understand, I will ask for help.

Name __________________________________

Signature _______________________________

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