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Florence House was named in honor of the city of Florence, a small, independent city-state that became the center of art and learning during the transition from the medieval age to the Renaissance. Florentines bestowed equal value on individual achievement and contributions to the community; a well-rounded education was, therefore, essential. Florence's unique celebration of the human spirit inspired some of the landmark achievements of Western Civilization, such as Leonardo Da Vinci's scientific inquiries, Michelangelo's David, and Brunelleschi's Dome. Like this great city, Florence House encourages each individual to reach his or her creative and intellectual potential. Through the personalization and rigorous curriculum that Florence provides, our students become not only well-rounded individuals at Hillsdale, but also life-long learners and citizens of the world.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE FLORENCE HOUSE HONOR CODE Integrity is important for academic work at the high school level, the collegiate level, and the professional level. Most colleges have honor codes. Violations of the code can lead to expulsion. In order to help our students develop integrity and positive study habits, the Florence House is implementing our own Honor Code. THE FLORENCE HOUSE HONOR CODE: Florence House is a supportive community that values respect and integrity. No member of Florence House may take unfair advantage of others or tolerate those who do. To reinforce and remind students of their commitment to upholding the honor code, students will copy the honor code at the end of each exam and major assignment. Honor Code Policy and Procedures Consequences for honor code violations will depend on the nature of the violation. Teachers will take care of minor offenses at their discretion. Major offenses will involve an Honor Code Committee (HCC) that will convene to discuss the violation and its appropriate consequence. Each meeting of the HCC will be documented and saved in the Florence House Honor Code Binder located in room 211. Composition of the Honor Code Committee:

• Advisor: initiates and coordinates committee meeting ASAP • 2 teachers (not teacher involved) from following choices: ◦ 1st Semester: Ms. Flores, Ms. Zee, Mr. Jouriles, Ms. Press ◦ 2nd Semester: Mr. Tsao, Mr. Maskel, Ms. Crockett, Mr. L-S

• 2 students of Honor Code Violator's choice • Florence administrator (Ms. Lawton) • Total Decision Making Members: 5

Violation Procedure Possible Consequences

Cheating on exams - Automatic Zero on exam - Teacher notifies advisor. - Advisor notifies parents. - Advisor referral to Honor Code Committee

Advisor Conference Parent Conference Lower participation grade Community service Report place in student records Final Decision by HCC

Plagiarism from published source

- Automatic Zero on assignment - Teacher notifies advisor. - Advisor notifies parents. - Advisor referral to Honor Code Committee

Advisor Conference Parent Conference Lower participation grade Report in student records Final Decision by HCC

Peer plagiarism (Copying or allowing others to copy work)

- Automatic Zero on assignment for all students involved - First offense: Teacher notifies advisor. - Subsequent offense: referral to HCC - Optional teacher/advisor referral to HCC

Repeat offenders will suffer further consequences as determined by HCC

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Behavioral Honor Code Violations:

• Lying • Stealing • Bullying • Disrespect/

Defiance/ Insubordination

- Teacher notifies advisor. - Advisor notifies parents. - Advisor referral to HCC and/or referral to Dean

Final Decision by HCC and/or Dean

Florence House Honor Code

I, _____________________________________, commit to upholding the Florence House Honor Code: Florence House is a supportive community that values respect and integrity. No member of Florence House may take unfair advantage of others or tolerate those who do. Signed: ___________________________________________ Date: _________ Advisor Witness: ____________________________________ Date: _________

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Honor Code Lesson: 25 minutes Before handing out the Florence House Honor Code, students will spend some time as a class and in pairs generating their own ideas about what it means to be "honorable." Here's a suggested lesson format: 1--Whole class: What is honor? (3-4 min) Students generate their own definition of the word and take notes on the worksheet (step 1). A few definitions from sources: Webster's: a keen sense of ethical conduct Wikepedia: a trustworthiness based on an individual's actions, Dictionary.com: honesty, integrity, fairness based on one's thoughts and actions 2--Pairs Brainstorm: (7-8 minutes)

What is honorable behavior? What is dishonorable behavior? In pairs, brainstorm some examples of each type of behavior. Remind students to focus on specific behaviors that might be observed on a high school campus. Share out as a class, listing examples in the columns on the worksheet (step 2)

3-Whole class: Applying behaviors to the Florence House Honor Code (7-8 minutes)

Place the honor code on an overhead or on the board and have a student read aloud. Students fill in the key aspects of "honor" and "dishonor" on their worksheets. (step 3) Florence House is a supportive community that values respect and integrity. No member of a Florence House may take unfair advantage of others or tolerate those who do.

Drawing from the student-generated list of honorable and dishonorable behaviors, have students match up the actions they have brainstormed with the bolded words and phrases of the honor code. They can list these on the worksheet "honor" chart (step 3). You may need to guide the class to specific behaviors that are overlooked in the discussion (i.e. allowing a student to copy your homework as a form of dishonorable tolerance).

4--Hand out and review the Florence House Honor Code (5 min).

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Florence House Advisory 2009-2010 Name_________________________________ Florence House Honor Code: Student Worksheet 1. What is HONOR? 2. What is HONORABLE behavior? DISHONORABLE behavior? List some examples of each kind of behavior below. Focus on behaviors that might be observable on a high school campus. Honorable Dishonorable

3. Florence House Honor Code Florence House is a supportive community that values _________________________ and _____________________ . No member of a Florence House may ____________________ _________________________________________or ___________________ those who do. respect taking unfair advantage of others

integrity tolerating dishonorable actions

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FICA – Behavior Reflection Florence House Honor Code: Florence House is a supportive community that values respect and integrity. No member of Florence House may take unfair advantage of others or tolerate those who do.

F = Facts Relate the facts about what happened. Consider the five questions: who, when, what, why, and where?

I = Impact Explain what impact your behavior had on yourself and others. How are people affected by your behavior?

Consider the bullet points for Active and Collaborative Community Member on the Florence House rubric. Some are listed below: • Supports others as a member of a community • Participates in activities • Respects differences in cultures and groups • Demonstrates integrity

C = Choices Given the situation, consider what other choices you could have made. Circle the choices that you may want to try the next time a similar situation arises.

A = Action What action(s) would be most appropriate for you to take to repair the situation?

Student-Advisor Conversation Notes: (Complete on back.) Action(s)/Consequence(s) Taken:

o Assigned Thursday detention o Assigned Friday in-house suspension o Referred to Dean o Other:

Name: ____________________ Date: _______

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Name: Case: Date:

Grade: Subject:

Florence Honor Code Committee Meeting Protocol PROTOCOL 1. Advisor reports facts of case. Committee may ask clarifying questions to advisor. 2. Student has chance to tell their own version and confirm or contest facts. Committee may ask student questions. 3. Committee has opportunity to bring in teacher involved without student present to ask questions about facts of case. 4. Committee asks student to propose what consequences would be just and appropriate. 5. Closed door committee meeting without student to determine consequences. Strive for consensus but majority vote. 6. Bring student back in and inform of consequences 7. Committee communicates consequences to parent and documents meeting in Florence House Honor Code Binder in 211. Notes:

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Honor Code Recording Sheet Date of Meeting

Date of Incident

Name Advisor Honor Code Violation Outcome/Consequence

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Hillsdale High School – Florence House – Peer Observation Teacher:__________________ Observer: __________________ Date: ____________ Period: ____ Time In ______ Out: ______ Teacher’s Focus: Lesson Context/Objective:

Instructional Strategies: Evidence/Effect: o Cold Call o No Opt Out o Right is Right-

Expect 100%

o On Your Mark o Binder Control/

Organization o Stretch-it o Other

Literacy Strategy(ies): o

o o

Other related to teacher’s selected focus:

Hillsdale High School – Florence House – Peer Observation Teacher:__________________ Observer: _________________ Date: ____________ Period: ____ Time In ______ Out: _____ Teacher’s Focus: Lesson Context/Objective: Instructional Strategies: Evidence/Effect:

o Cold Call o No Opt Out o Right is Right-

Expect 100%

o On Your Mark o Binder Control/

Organization o Stretch-it o Other

Literacy Strategy(ies):

o

o o

Other related to teacher’s selected focus:

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Flo9 Team Meeting Facilitator: Chris Date: 10/12/11 (88min) Notetaker: Danielle


Item Time Notes/Follow up 1. Business/Check-in

Student of the Month request from Sabrina Greg: create a nomination slip and present at 9/10 meeting

10 min

Kudos to Chris for leading team meetings for 8.25 years! Sabrina student government, “student of the month”, is this a 9 team, or a 9/10 team decision?; proposal – student emulates the graduate profile; add this to the 9/10 agenda for 10.26

2. Lessons/Calendar Cyberbullying Lesson (Greg) Bio Plagiarism (Sandi) Other Plagiarism (Greg, Chris, Danielle) SSR – Design an assessment and intro sheet; editted soft copy from Sandi

25 min

Cyberbullying draft ok; debrief for Cyberbullying to be debriefed in next two weeks. Bio Plagiarism (need resources to compare); addresses issue of “what’s a good paraphrase? (how you include information)”; students may think that the more scientific example is better but has more plagiarism; go through sample 2 and underline what has been lifted and paraphrase as an extension activity.

3. KIDS: General Info Jonie: Greg: History paragraph due Friday; beyond books for AS 13 days to read 120 pages; Amber teary in conference single mom, flight attendant, lots of pressure; Nagi is lost Sandi: Justeen receiving death threats (police escorted her home Friday), me-llage defaced, keep an eye out, mtg with mom on Th re: therapy; awesome conference with Antonio’s mom (SF commute); Marco has confidential SPED file to come

20 min

Danielle: Tanner immature behavior, students need to make-up benchmarks, Chris: Jose teary last week, doesn’t see dad except on Tu; Kaila may get RSP, recent SST, parents acknowledged recent improvement; Marcus kicked out of Bio; Alex concerned about Bio, happy with grades; Angelo focusing on organization; Nico focusing on restraint in groups; Katherine teary about motivation for grades. Cheryl: Evan Mc. meeting today;

Notes for Next Agenda: (Monday, 10.17, 50 min)

Lesson Review/Planning: SSR, Plagiarism Next three weeks in Advisory: M T W F 10.10 No Students Conference Prep Conference Prep Cyberbullying Follow-Up

10.17 Intro SSR SSR – reading preference Plagiarism via Biology Library SSR / General Plagiarism

10.24 Library SSR / General Plagiarism

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Florence 9-10 Agenda--Equity /Literacy Mtg Monday 2/7 period 3 Topic Time Notes/Follow up Check in/props

5 min

1. Peer Observation reminders Complete one observation

by Wed 2/9 20-minute check in, third

period 2/9 (protocols?) Check ins scheduled for

the 2nd Wed. of each month (* see dates below)

10 min

We all agreed to be prepared to share our observations (protocols to be decided on Wed.)

2. Literacy Rubric a. Review final rubric draft b. Literacy practice through advisories --Subject area test drives: share readings/questions by subject --schedule lessons c. Formative Assessment through advisories -- every 6 weeks

10 min 20 min 30 min

a. Discussion around content v skill--How will we know if students are actually acquiring content/meaning Danielle--"basic understanding" should be broken down more specifically (we clarified/expanded this descriptor) --Sarah will add into rubric b. Subject passages--agreed that the Critical Reading question sheet (1-5) could work across subject, but modified for each content area. (Common questions--#1,#2,#3; content questions, #4-#5) To Do's We agreed to create lesson plans with clear models an directions for each subject We will also modify the common questions to suit our content objectives

3. Next steps: What are our long-range goals for literacy? --revisit the equity cycle --how will we track and measure progress? Next 9-10 meeting

10 min

When to push these passages through advisory? 20 minute meeting to schedule 4 literacy lessons + introductory lesson; formative meeting date Wednesday Feb 16--first 20 minutes for literacy planning.

(*) Future dates for 9-10 observation check ins (3rd period, 2nd Wed/month)

March 9 April 13 May 10

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Sample 10th Advisory Agenda 2/16/11 Topic Time Notes/follow up

1. 9-10 Literacy: Schedule 4 literacy lessons and an introductory lesson • The rationale • The method • The follow up assessment

Reminder: Second observation by 3/9

25 min

2. Kids: 6-week grades

20 min

3. Field Trip updates • Numbers for Engineering/Art • Scholarships • Chaperones—PALS?

10 min

4. College Project plan for the next week • encourage more research? • Brochure lesson/models

10 min

5. Planning—other advisory lessons based on scope and sequence

20 min

Next Week (Agenda items and follow up): The next four weeks/planning calander (x = lesson still open) M T W TH F 2/14 Field Trip letter Check in

Brochure—begin Research reminder

Brochure Research reminder: What do you need?

TUTORIAL

RALLY

2/21 X

Final brochure for college project

Practice college presentation!

COLLEGE PROJECT

2/28 X--First literacy lesson?

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X

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