Tardiness

Tardiness

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Tardiness — Start on Time

START on Time! professional development gives secondary school teachers, teacher assistants, and building administrators a strategy to eliminate tardiness and improve student behavior in hallways. Learn how to build staff collegiality, increase the level of coordinated hallway supervision, reduce the frequency of tardiness, regain instructional time lost to tardiness, improve school climate, and increase positive interactions between staff and students.


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Schoolwide approach

The Positive Sweep

  • Teachers with classes after passing period stand in classroom doorways to observe students in hallways and great their students as they enter the classroom.

  • When teachers witness misbehavior, they can detain students until a member of the positive sweep team approaches .

  • When final bell rings, teachers close doors and immediately begin instruction.

  • Teachers with prep time instead of a class make up the positive sweep team and circulate through hallways, restrooms, common areas, and other designated zones to provide positive supervision and round up misbehaving students .

  • Those students can be sent to a sweep room and face immediate consequences before being sent back to their classrooms as quickly as possible with minimal instruction disruption upon entering .

We don’t want children to simply endure school—we want them to thrive.

What to Expect from Tardiness

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Schoolwide

All staff work together to ensure order in common area, on-time start to classes, and consistent consequences for tardiness.

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Focused

Each school can arrange coverage so that specific problem areas are monitored between classes.

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Quick Results

Schools that implement Start on Time! report immediate reductions in truancy and misbehavior during passing periods.

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Proven results

Schoolwide Success with Tardiness Reduction

The Safe & Civil Schools team has several case studies showing this transformative approach to sweep can dramatically reduce tardiness.


To learn more about refining your school’s approach to sweep and how it can improve attendance and make the most of limited classroom time, contact our team or read more about our START on Time! resources.

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