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Legislative
Updates
Legislative
Updates
This House Bill prohibits students from using cellular devices during the school day.
What is HB 1481 (Cellular Device Ban)?
When this severe weather condition is issued, staff escort students to interior hallways and students crouch facing the wall.
What is a Tornado Warning?
Teachers must assign at least this many classwork grades per subject each week.
What is one?
Classwork grades should document this over time.
What is cumulative mastery of content?
This document outlines the operational procedures and policies all Harry Stone Montessori Academy staff are expected to follow without exception.
What is the Faculty and Staff Handbook?
Under HB 1481, secondary campuses manage cell phones using these items, while elementary campuses use storage collection.
What are pouches?
n a fire drill, staff and students must exit the building quietly and in this formation.
What is a single line?
The maximum number of test or major project grades per nine weeks.
What is four?
Grades must be recorded and communicated using these approved tools.
Answer: What are District-approved reporting forms and/or software programs?
These three guiding expectations form the foundation of behavior and culture at Harry Stone Montessori Academy.
What are Respect for Self, Respect for Others, and Respect for the Environment?
This Senate Bill requires schools to display donated Ten Commandments posters in classrooms if all legal requirements are met.
What is Senate Bill 10 (SB10)?
During a fire drill, teachers must ensure students exit the building in this manner.
What is quietly, in a single-file line, without talking?
Projects and products count for this percentage of the grade.
What is 25 percent?
Students receive this many school days to make up work for each day absent.
Answer: What are two school days?
This Dallas ISD initiative includes the tenets Focused, Fast, Flexible, and Friendly and anchors the district’s work in racial equity and cultural responsiveness.
What is the Dallas ISD Core 4?
Senate Bill 571 reduced the time professionals have to report suspected child abuse from 48 hours to this new limit.
What is 24 hours?
Dallas ISD requires that all staff do this with their district-issued identification while on district property.
What is wear their ID badge at all times?
Projects may result in multiple grades because they assess these.
What are multiple learning standards?
Before recording a zero, teachers are encouraged to make this contact.
What is a parent call or notification?
This campus-based committee meets at least once per month to oversee the ethical and compliant management of school activity funds.
What is the Board of Control (BOC)?
According to Senate Bill 571, this type of conduct—harmful to a child’s mental, emotional, or physical welfare—now includes improper relationships between educators and students.
What is sexual conduct harmful to a child (or improper educator–student relationships)?
During a fire drill, teachers must leave the classroom door in this condition when exiting.
What is closed but unlocked?
Classwork accounts for this percentage of the overall grade.
What is 55 percent?
Students may retake a failed major test within this time frame.
What is within five school days or no later than 10 days from the test date?
During a fire drill, teachers must take this folder containing attendance and emergency contact information before evacuating the classroom.
What is the red emergency folder?