Calendar

Renaissance School faculty members are expected to use a Renaissance School Gmail account for all school correspondence and are expected to use Google Classroom and Google Calendar. All due dates for tests, projects, field trips, etc. should be put on the Google Calendar and shared with all faculty and administrators. This calendar is maintained by the Assistant to the Head, but it is the faculty’s responsibility to check it often and make sure it is current. This enables the faculty to see what is happening in all classes and plan accordingly. Faculty should have their Google Calendar updated and shared prior to the start of school and maintained weekly.

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Sexual Harassment Policy

Renaissance School strives to dedicate itself to creating and maintaining an atmosphere free of all forms of harassment or intimidation. Every individual in the Renaissance School community shall be treated with sensitivity and respect and shall be entitled to work and learn without fear of intimidation, humiliation, and/or degradation from unwanted and unacceptable behavior.

This policy applies to relations between adults, between students, between adults and students, regardless of the individual’s gender and/or age.

Sexual harassment is not social or courting behavior. It is in part, or whole, best seen as an assertion of power through coercion or innuendo or as the result of a studentadult school relationship or student-student relationship.

To attempt to list all possible incidents of acts of sexual harassment would be futile. Sexual harassment can be very broadly described as unwanted and uninvited attention in the form of intimidation or coercion of an unwilling individual into sexual relations or favors real or perceived. It also encompasses the maintenance of a hostile atmosphere or any unwanted and uninvited attention.

It is always important to bear in mind that a power imbalance exists in a facultystudent relationship. This, coupled with students’ relative inexperience, requires all adult members of the Renaissance School community to display and live a strong sense of professional and institutional responsibility. In short, faculty and staff behavior with respect to students as well as to each other must be above suspicion.

The prohibition of sexual harassment is the law, and there is no choice for any organization but scrupulously to comply with Title VII and Civil Rights Act of 1964. There can be no hint of retaliation for legitimate reports of sexual harassment.

The reporting authority for all students is the Dean of Students or the Head of School. The reporting authority for all faculty is the Head of School. Reports will be strictly confidential. An investigation into any charge(s) will be conducted promptly. Anyone found to be in violation of this policy by the Head of School will be subject to appropriate action which may include separation from the School. Anyone who has made false accusations and/or accusations with the sole purpose of defaming may also be subject to separation.

Renaissance School has an academic environment where respect and “ kindness are at the core of our interactions. Bullying and harassment of any nature are prohibited. Please review our conduct expectations and procedures below. Defining Terms Harassment, Intimidation, or Bullying - Any intentional written, verbal, graphic, or physical act that a person or group of people exhibited more than once toward a particular person and the behavior both causes mental or physical harm to the other person; and is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening or abusive educational environment for the other student. Harassment can also mean violence within a dating relationship. It can include acts committed through the use of a cellular telephone, computer, personal communication device, or other electronic communication devices.

Types of Conduct Harassment, intimidation, or bullying can include many different behaviors. Examples of conduct that could constitute prohibited behaviors include: •Physical violence and/or attacks •Threats, taunts, and intimidation through words and/or gestures •Overt intent to ridicule, humiliate or intimidate toward another student or school personnel •Extortion, damage or stealing of money and/or possessions •Exclusion from the peer group, spreading rumors, ridicule, humiliation •Repetitive and hostile behavior with the intent to harm others through the use of information and communication technologies and other Webbased/online sites (also known as “cyberbullying”), such as: • posting slurs on Websites where students congregate • sending abusive or threatening instant messages • using camera phones to take embarrassing photographs of student/school personnel and posting them online • using web sites to circulate gossip and rumors to other students/school personnel • excluding others from an online group by falsely reporting them for inappropriate language to Internet service providers.

Harassment, intimidation, or bullying behavior by any student/school personnel at Renaissance School is strictly prohibited, and such conduct may result in termination of disciplinary action, including suspension and/or expulsion from school.

Filing A Complaint

Formal Complaint Students, parents or guardians, and school personnel may file reports regarding suspected harassment, intimidation, or bullying. Such written reports shall be reasonably specific including the person(s) involved, number of times and places of the alleged conduct, the target of suspected harassment, intimidation and/or bullying, and the names of any potential student or staff witnesses. Such reports may be filed with any school staff member or administrator, and they shall be promptly forwarded to the Head of School for review and action.

Informal Complaint Students, parents or guardians, and school personnel may make informal complaints of conduct that they consider to be harassment, intimidation and/or bullying by verbal report to a teacher, school administrator, or other school personnel. Such informal complaints shall be reasonably specific as to the actions giving rise to the suspicion of harassment, intimidation and/or bullying, including the person(s) involved, number of times and places of the alleged conduct, the target of the prohibited behavior(s), and the names of any potential student or staff witnesses. A school staff member or administrator who receives an informal complaint shall promptly document the complaint in writing, including the above information. This written report by the school staff member and/or administrator shall be promptly forwarded to the Head of School for review and action in accordance.

Anonymous Complaints Students who make informal complaints as set forth above may request that their name be maintained in confidence by the school staff member(s) and administrator(s) who receive the complaint. The anonymous complaints shall be reviewed and reasonable action will be taken to address the situation, to the extent such action may be taken that (1) does not disclose the source of the complaint, and (2) is consistent with the due