Professional Expectations
The appropriate time for teachers to send personal texts, check emails, or use their phones for non-instructional purposes.
What are planning time, before/after school, or lunch?
To ensure full participation, staff members are asked to avoid scheduling these on staff meeting days.
What are personal or professional appointments?
This is the reason door windows should never be opaquely covered unless it's during specified drills.
What is safety & security ?
If needed, this person or team can attend any parent/teacher conference to provide additional support.
Who is the principal or assistant principal?
This is the online portal staff members use to clock in daily.
What is ExecuTime?
Activities like grading papers, texting, or laptop use should only happen during staff meetings under this condition
What is prior approval or when provided by the principal?
At the end of the day, this should be turned off, and all electrical equipment should be properly shut down.
What is lights and other electrical equipment?
Conferences should not be held during this time of day.
What is instructional time?
This is the time by which classroom teachers should be at their classroom doorways to greet students.
What is 7:45 A.M ?
These are the two typical locations where in-person staff meetings are held at Tucker.
What are the Mini-auditorium and the Library?
This is the action teachers should take if they need to leave the classroom during instructional time to ensure students are supervised.
What is arranging coverage with a nearby teacher or calling the office?
It is the responsibility of this person to ensure a conference is held for each student, regardless of whether it's on the designated conference days.
Who is the classroom teacher?
Staff may submit agenda items or training ideas for meetings by doing this in advance.
What is emailing the principal?
Unless prior approval is obtained, all licensed staff are expected to do this at scheduled staff meetings.
What is attend the entire meeting?
This is the responsibility of teachers during an assembly, unless excused by administration.
What is staying with and supervising the class?
These specific days are set aside in the ACPS school year calendar for parent conferences to discuss student progress.
What are quarterly conference days?
This is the platform classroom teachers must use to send weekly updates to parents.
What is parent square?
This is how often staff meetings are held at Tucker Elementary.
What is every other Monday?
To minimize distractions and support a focused learning environment, students are expected to do this while walking through the hallways and ELAs.
What is walk quietly at all times?
Teachers must document this in their planner or notes for every parent/teacher conference held.
What are the time and date of the conference?