Discipline

A large group of students and our three Principals seated in the gym in honor of the SOAR Student Awards.

Behavior and discipline are central to creating a safe, supportive environment where students can truly thrive.

Our approach focuses on accountability, empathy, and growth. Guided by our SOAR core values—Success, Ownership, Attitude, and Respect—we intentionally teach and reinforce positive behaviors in every corner of our school.

Using strategies like Restorative Practices, we help students learn from mistakes, repair harm, and rebuild trust while honoring their dignity. Rather than focusing on punishment, we aim to empower our students to take ownership of their actions, develop empathy, and make better choices moving forward. By addressing challenges with compassion and offering tailored social-emotional support, we give students the tools they need to grow into thoughtful, responsible individuals.

Below, you’ll find everything you need to know about our discipline policies, behavior expectations, and how we celebrate the positive choices that make our community strong.

A male elementary student smiling and holding his SOAR Student of the Month certificate in the gymnasium.

Policies & Procedures

Student Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct exists to help maintain an environment that is safe, conducive to learning, and free from unnecessary disruption to maintain safety and support academic success.

Bromley East Charter School is committed to imposing proportionate disciplinary interventions and consequences, including but not limited to in-school suspensions, in response to student misconduct, which interventions and consequences will be designed to reduce the number of expulsions, out-of-school suspensions, and referrals to law enforcement.

For specific information about code of conduct violations and the school’s disciplinary response to the violations, please click here .

Behavior Expectation & Support “The Hawk Way: SOAR”

SOAR behavior is modeled after BECS’ core values of Success, Ownership, Attitude, and Respect and describes how students should conduct themselves.
As a Positive Behavior Intervention and Support School, SOAR behavior is explicitly taught, practiced, and retaught as needed in all areas of the school. Students are taught to be responsible for their own conduct and decisions. Please click here for some expected behaviors that are taught at BECS.
Expectations, rewards, and disciplinary actions are developed for the purpose of allowing teachers to teach and students to learn in a positive, safe environment with as few interruptions as possible.
BECS staff believes all people make mistakes, so when our students make mistakes, we work with the students and parents as much as possible to ensure learning occurs and mistakes are not repeated.

How We Celebrate & Reinforce Positive Behavior

Restorative Practices

We believe all behavior occurs for a reason, and we work hard to understand the reason for the behavior to better understand and support students with dignity.

The purposes of Restorative Practices are to build strong relationships and nurture a positive community through healthy, productive conflict resolution.
When possible, BECS staff work with students to learn from mistakes by understanding the impact of their actions and repairing harm.
Peer mediations may be facilitated by a member of the Social Emotional Learning Team or Administration to resolve conflicts between students.