Ortega Common Area Expectations

Arrival/Morning Duty

Adult-

  • Be at your designated area no later than 7:30
  • Greet students and adults with a smile
  • Direct students to appropriate areas

Student

  • Be on time
  • Walk in the crosswalks and follow safety patrol directions
  • Enter through the designated doors
  • Go straight to your designated area and wait for your teacher to pick you up

Morning Assembly

Adult-

  • Greet students and adults with a smile
  • Arrive at 7:40 and stand by your class
  • Actively monitor all classes
  • Model good behavior
  • Be consistent in reinforcing students expectations

Student-

  • Sit in classroom line, facing forward, with backpack close to your side
  • Voices off
  • Read independently
  • Respect speaker (listening, participating, no talking)
  • Exit quickly and quietly

Cafeteria

Adult-

  • Arrive and pick up students on-time
  • Communicate with monitors at class pick-up
  • Follow-up with appropriate positive and/or negative consequences

Student-

  • Use an inside voice
  • Stay seated and keep hands and feet to self
  • Raise hand for help
  • Walk at all times
  • Throw away all trash
  • Wait quietly in a straight line for teacher pick-up

Hallway

Adult-

  • Remind students of expectations before they begin moving
  • Teachers use inside voices
  • Be positioned to see all students
  • Use non-verbal cues to remind students of expectations

Student-

  • Walk on blue lines
  • Face forward with hands at side
  • Voices off
  • Stay close to your classmates
  • Stop at stopping points

Bathrooms

Adult- (100 wing)

  • Designate specific times to go as a group
  • Send 3 students at a time
  • Be consistent in modeling and reinforcing student expectations

Student-

  • Voices off
  • Go, flush, wash, dry, dispose, exit

Playground

Adult-

  • Monitor students
  • Active involvement with student activities
  • Be consistent in reinforcing student expectations

Student-

  • Pick up playground equipment only
  • Stay in the designated areas
  • Use the steps to go up the slide; slide down on your bottom
  • Keep your hands and feet to yourself
  • Line up when signaled to do so

Dismissal:

Adult-

  • Display primetime list outside homeroom classroom & ensure there are explicit directions for substitutes
  • Have class lined up at or before 2:45 with primetime students lined up first
  • Release primetime students to Pre-K teachers
  • Walk to the front of the school with your class
  • Stay outside and actively supervise students until 3:00
  • Take remaining students to office at 3:00

Student-

  • Sit or stand with your teacher
  • Ask permission from teacher to get snacks
  • Tell your teacher when you are leaving
  • Follow directions from safety patrol
  • Walk only on sidewalks or cross walks

Gym- Primetime Program:

PreK Teachers-

  • Pick up primetime students from homeroom classes
  • Walk designated students to the gym
  • Actively supervise students until 3:05pm

Primetime Teachers-

  • Pick up students in the gym by 3:05pm

Primetime Students-

  • Sit in a straight line by your primetime class sign
  • Turn and talk with your neighbors using a quiet voice
  • Respond to adult directions or signals the first time
  • Keep hands and feet to self