Revamp Your RUP

All right.

Hi.

Welcome everyone.

We're super happy to have you here.

I am thrilled to introduce Mimi Lu Leko.

She is one of our, um, very engaged and active members, and she's going to share about rewriting your school a UP and RUP, and what they've done at Town School for Boys.

So, Mimi, without further ado, I'll go ahead and hand it over to you to get us going.

Hi, everyone.

Um, so, uh, that's me and just wanted to share a little bit about myself.

Uh, so I'm at a boys school, which I think makes a really big difference.

Um, so you may know a lot of you have different, yeah, populations for your schools.

Boys just need a lot of, they need a lot of reminders and they also test the boundaries a bunch.

And so we wanted a really effective RUP that, uh, they could quote from.

And, you know, it was just part of the school culture and, um, it was just very much like embedded throughout the day, throughout the school year, throughout everything, so that they just remember the expectations all the time.

So, um, that's kind of our why, and I'll tell you more about the whole process of us doing this.

Um, this started the year of 23 to 24.

Um, and actually like in the, I, so I started my job in 2022, and I think by 23 there were just a lot of tech misbehavior issues.

So a lot of it was just like, we need to tighten this up.

Part of it might be just embedding this culture.

So anyway, um, that's kind of a little bit about why, why I'm doing this, and then, um, but I'm happy to chat about other things.

Um, you can always ask me about, um, KD eight technology and digital citizenship curriculum.

We have a pretty robust system here.

I cannot just credit it myself.

We have a really dedicated team.

Um, I did work on an app approval process this year.

A lot of inspiration from other schools and other resources, uh, AI in schools.

I think we're doing a lot at town, but at the same time, kind of keeping in mind restrictions for our boys, but also like giving teachers a lot of leeway and a room for experimentation, uh, print management, um, ongoing process at our school.

Happy to talk with you or commiserate and also, um, building a tech in the schools community near you.

Um, I, before I started my job at town, I lived in New York for many years and was, um, a co-president of Nicest where we like ran meetings every month and I was like a good active participant for years.

And just, I'm always excited about kind of meeting up with, um, other local professionals and developing a community.

So yeah, happy to talk about those things as well.

So, uh, and um, I would love for you, I'm gonna give like a few prompts in the chat that you're welcome to answer.

So my first prompt for you is like, what questions would you like me to answer by the end of the session? So, um, feel free to write that in the chat.

I will look at it.

I might not answer your questions right now, but, um, we, I want you to all participate in this as well.

So, yeah, what are you hoping to get out of this by the end? So I'll give you a little moment if anyone wants to type.

Um, and your questions will probably inspire everyone else, so, um, feel free to share.

Okay.

All right.

So, um, I'm gonna move on to the why.

I explained a little bit about our why, but these might also be your, your objectives as well.

So, uh, I would say it needs to be updated is probably not a good enough of a reason.

As you see, we had ran into a lot of tech misbehavior issues at my school.

It's boys school, boys like to test boundaries.

Um, we did realize the previous one, it was just too long, and so people didn't remember it.

And so just needed to be shorter and crisper.

It's, it used to be about three to four pages and then now it's just two pages double sided and it's in all the boys binders.

Um, you want to use it throughout the year instead of just the beginning where people just like read it and then they sign it and then you forget it.

So it's kind of all throughout our culture now.

Um, you might want it to use it more to tie in with your different curriculum.

So it's really much embedded in our tech digital citizenship.

We have an SEL library and health curriculum now.

Uh, we have made the language more student friendly just 'cause we want it to be quotable.

We wanted to boys be like, that is part of our RUP, I remember that.

And then we also want to get more buy-in from the community, um, so that it's really a community document versus just a tech department or handbook document.

And then shift tech role modeling and behavior addressing to a greater team.

If you feel like, um, and I think I did, and maybe possibly my predecessors did, felt like a lot of the tech misbehavior was just on the tech team to address.

Um, if you wanna shift it to greater community, like bring your heads, your, your division heads in, your deans, like, uh, more teachers and you know, more parents, and then having like a more salient, memorable RUP will do that.

So I'm gonna go through the, uh, steps that we did to do our RUP and I'll go to each step in depth after this.

So, so first we identify issues.

So it's kind of like our design cycle, identify issues, get buy-in, start doing research, find the best examples, draft and collaborate, get feedback from a larger audience.

Find links to curriculum implement.

And I know a few of you have asked this in the chat, uh, revisit and reise.

Um, typically we are revisiting and revising every summer.

Um, I'll also talk about like the domino effect of that.

'cause like we have videos that have to do with our points, and so if we have an update, then the videos get updated, that kind of thing.

Slides get updated.

So yeah, usually summer is a good time to do it, but if you have end of the school year might be a good time as well, as long as it's not too crazy.

So whenever you need to rev, revisit or revise and then just implement it for the next, next fall.

Okay.

So I'll start with the first step.

Identify issues with your REP.

Um, for example, ours are just too negative, too vague and too long, so that might be yours as well.

I would say if you're you or other people are having a hard time remembering it or, um, people are just forgetting different points of it, then that might be something to address.

Um, so, um, I, and feel free to raise your hand or like do a, uh, emoji for this.

Like gimme a thumbs up or raise your, uh, thumbs up if you have r ps for your different divisions.

Yeah, so, um, typically we do want like age appropriate RU ps.

So we only have two divisions at town, so we have like a lower school and an upper school.

So, um, we definitely have a different one for lower school versus upper school.

And I'll show you what ours looks like later.

But yeah, so you know, and you may have a totally different one for your high school.

We don't have a high school at town, and in high school you just might have a lot more freedoms and so that RUP might look different.

Okay.

So, um, now after that you have to get buy-in.

Um, so you wanna convince people that it is worth it to edit your RUP and to create like a new more effective one.

So, um, in the chat, feel free to share your hopes for your new RUP.

And these are reasons you can feed straight to these people.

So not just your team, but also admin, librarians, teachers, like what, what would you say to them? Like, how would you get, get buy-in, why edit your RUP? So take a moment if you'd like to put it in the chat.

Like, why, why do you wanna redo it? So yeah, when I got buy-in from, um, these populations at my school, um, it, the next step is like, then we were able to do research together and then we were able to draft it together.

Yeah, AI is like a really important reason.

So if your current REP has doesn't have much on AI and you want to not only include ai, but also like the other ai, which is academic integrity and tie it in, then that's, that's something that's an important, you know, reason to give to the whole team.

Okay.

Um, I'm gonna go to the next part, which is start doing research.

So, um, we compiled a lot of other examples, which I will share a folder, uh, with you at the end.

Or like, um, I'll, I'll kinda walk through some of what I showed.

Uh, I attended REP webinars and I also, so my colleagues did as well.

We looked at a lot of previous versions of what we had.

And then, um, here's two links that I found very helpful.

Uh, it'll be shared in the folder or like the, in the slides later, so feel free to not look through it now.

But these are two that I found really helpful.

Okay.

Okay.

So, um, next is after you do start doing research, compile the best examples.

I was looking specifically for language, for very understandable language, clear language, and then I was also looking for an infographic for younger kids so that they could look at the REP and be like, aha, even if I can't read it, well, I know exactly the point associated with that.

So, um, here's two that I found really useful.

This is one from San Bernardino County, um, their schools.

And then, um, I thought this was just really nice.

I can't find it nowadays, but I can tell you this is where I got it from.

And then this is straight from the, um, um, PDF that I, and they just basically had a bunch of different points.

So notice all the language is like positive.

Um, like we definitely use something like, I will give credit to any, anyone with, like, any work I didn't create, I'll give credit to any work I didn't create.

Um, I will check that information is accurate.

Now, this is not in our, um, lower score RUP because this was not something our third, fourth graders were really able to do on their own yet, but it was definitely in our upper school one.

So here's some examples I will share more later.

Um, okay.

So after that we drafted and collaborated using our examples.

So, um, I definitely had help from, uh, my supervisor who is the director of teaching and learning, as well as my head of school, but also my tech team also teachers, deans, librarians, the librarians actually, and I have done a lot.

And also kind of our, um, tech forward people in each division helped a lot as well.

Also, you have deans at your school there, your partners in this because they handle all behavior.

Um, definitely, definitely get their buy-in and get their expertise because a lot of times it's, they're carrying out the, the RUP like misbehavior part.

So yeah.

Uh, very great resources.

Um, so usually when we did each RUP, we only had about, I had about five people working on each, just looking at the first draft.

Um, and then, then we opened it up on the next step to a larger audience.

So we presented it at divisional meetings.

We also presented to students.

Um, so we got student council to weigh in and kinda give feedback on each section or like, and also like what, what was confusing, what was effective, that kind of thing.

Um, we also got, uh, admin again 'cause it's, it's important that they look at it because after that you also have school lawyers.

It needs to go to the school lawyers too.

So that's why, um, I wanted to present this now because that process might take a while.

And, um, you'll want to get school lawyers before your handbook is released, usually in the summer.

Okay.

So, um, after that you would then find links to curriculum.

So, um, I don't know about you guys and if you have a digital citizenship curriculum, I hope if you do, you are not the only person or people on your team just teaching it.

It should really be a, you know, school-wide effort.

But, um, we were able to really find ties to all of these.

So like in our technology and programming classes, like we did students learn how to create their own graphics, but also to find like images that they could give credit for that they had permission to use.

Same for library, lots of research skills.

SEL they talked about like, you know, screen time balance and making sure that you are kind online.

Um, health as well, you know, being digital is such a big part of kind of adolescence now.

And, um, kind of making sure their digital footprints are healthy.

Um, and in any other classes that use technology, I'm sure you have a lot of, you have one-on-one devices.

Any classes that use those devices should be aware and should implement the REP throughout.

And that all helps from having a clear RUP.

Okay.

So next, um, I wanted to give, uh, I wanted to get some ideas, crowdsource some ideas for implementation.

How about you implement a new RUP? So some examples we have are, we made videos, we made an infographic for younger kids.

Um, we made lessons and I went into assemblies.

Uh, so yeah, feel free to, uh, put in the chat, like, how would you implement a new REP because it's not just the document itself, it's kind of how do you disseminate all the ideas, how do you remind people? So feel free to share in the chat and I'll tell you some of what we did.

So yeah, like the REP was like the top layer of what we have.

Um, but um, it's also up to you all to kind of share the ideas and just reinforce them as much as possible.

So how would you do that? Okay, so I will give a few of, uh, how we implemented it.

And there's kind of gonna be a, uh, a page kind of where with all of our examples.

So we created a video for uniformity.

We actually created two videos, one for lower school and then one for upper school.

Uh, we created a cahoot or, um, now we use a quizzes way ground.

Um, or you might use, you know, Quizlet or whatever else you use, um, to remind people of the REP.

The kids would play it.

It was always very engaging to them.

Uh, yeah, I had a infographic poster for lower school.

We got them professionally printed.

They're in each classroom.

Uh, we had lessons and lesson templates.

Um, I'll show you some examples.

And also, uh, we have at the beginning of each school year, our upper school has, um, like a few days of going through the REP.

And um, it's very much like you go through it, you sign it, make sure you sign it, and then we reinforce it after that.

Uh, also email, drafts home.

Um, we have, I'll show some examples.

Some are from like our dean, some are from teachers.

Um, and also like our help desk has emails home that include things from our RUP.

So like whenever someone checks out something, they're like, or they get a repair notice, then it's like, remember the RUP says this.

And then, um, this was a big headache for us.

So we did digital form signing to reduce admin headaches.

Uh, 'cause it used to come back signed, which was a really big pain point.

Um, like the papers were signed and then you have to collect all the papers and then you have to keep track of who's missing theirs, uh, moving it digitally.

Maybe your SIS does that already, which would be amazing.

Um, I created like my own, I use like, uh, my own, um, app scripts for like Google forms to send notifications to parents as well as like kind of track who in each advisory or each class has signed it.

So that, I'm happy to talk about that a different, that's a really big other thing.

Okay.

So yeah, it's not just the document, it's just how do you also, um, reinforce all those ideas and how do you just keep the RUP top of mind.

And then, um, my last step, which I know a lot of people are asking about is, um, revisit and revise.

So you wanna do a yearly reread.

Does anything need to be updated? So we had to update a few things based on smart watches, um, just 'cause that's like what a lot of parents get their kids now, as well as, uh, ai uh, especially as, you know, people are exploring AI more and more in the classroom and also at home.

What appropriate use looks like.

Um, it is part of my, I know a few people have asked, it is part of our handbooks, but it is also like a separate kids need to get it signed at the beginning of the year.

So it's like also separate from our handbook.

So all of the above.

It's also in our SIS so parents can have a quick link to it.

Um, so, and when you revisit, you're like, where are students having the most trouble? Where do we need to be a little bit more clear? So one update we have made to our RUP over the last few years is being even more explicit about our accidental damage policy and what it covers.

So before they were like, oh man, you know, my, um, uh, I have all these scratches on my Chromebook, why is that not getting covered? We're like, well actually it's cosmetic, so they're not gonna cover that.

They'll only cover one major repair a year.

So just putting that in our RUP just so that students were clear.

And also, um, making it really clear about our AV was good in putting the fear in students like, and I use my one repair this year.

I'm like, well, you tell me, you know, you think this will get covered.

And then they, it it puts the fear in 'em and it also puts a little bit more responsibility in them, which is a really nice effect.

Um, and then how do you know your RUP is working? So, um, that is a question I invite you to answer in the chat.

How do you know your RUP is working? Like how do you know that it's an effective one or it gets the results you want? I, Um, if anyone will like, has a sign of success, definitely put that in the chat.

I'll kind of tell you ours.

And these can be ways you can evaluate your own RUP.

Um, so how we know our REP is working, we have a lot of different signs we are looking for.

The first one is students can name points and recite it.

I see in the chat questions are limited.

Yeah, it's short.

It's much shorter than before.

So yeah, we have students always quoting the RUP to me and to other students, which is hilarious, but I, at least I know it's working.

Um, students can identify your school's specific accidental damage or lost policy.

That was a really big part of why we wanted to make that really clear so that we, like, if you are not responsible with your device, this is what happens and this is what it gets covered.

This is what doesn't get covered.

You can can tie your RUP points to your school values.

If you guys are really big on your school values, it's really important that, um, your RUP really links to those.

Okay.

You hear the term RUP throughout the year from students, teachers, families, leadership, not just at beginning of the year.

Like I said, it's now kind of embedded in our school culture.

I don't take full credit.

We have a lot of people who are reminding kids, students understand the consequences from your IEP.

That's a really big deal.

A part of not just the accidental damage and loss policy, but also, um, they understand what happens if, you know, they do something unkind to another student or they create false content about another student.

They understand what, what could happen that should be in your REP.

Um, teachers and students are on the same page on REP expectations.

Like teaching students can name exactly what happens with smart watches when they come to school or like when is AI use.

Okay.

That kind of thing.

If they can all name it, that's good.

If parents can do it too, that's in a bonus.

I don't expect the parents to also memorize the REP, but teachers and students for sure.

Um, the REP ties in with your other curriculum.

So, um, it's not just one document.

It's very much throughout your school culture.

Um, if like you want students to definitely cite all their work, then that's in your library curriculum if you want them to, uh, make sure they're using AI in a supervised way that's in your technology, curriculum, um, health curriculum as well.

And then, oh, this is the most important thing, I feel I felt like a huge burden lifted for me.

It, it wasn't just on my team to like address tech mis behavior.

It, it became like a group effort from all the teachers or the librarians, the deans, um, any adult in the school.

And then the kids, if the kids can then name points and recite them, they can also police each other, which made my job a lot easier.

So yeah, just having a really salient, memorable RUP helps with all these things.

Yeah.

So, um, yeah, I mean it's not just the document.

There's enforcement, there's a proactive like education as well as all sorts of consequences as well.

Making that clear to your students.

Just making a really clear document that, um, people just remember and people just refer back to over and over again.

Okay, so this is where I get to do a little show and tell about kind of my school's RUP and the efforts we have made.

And this is not just like, don't expect to do it all in one year or like a few months.

You can spread this out, but, um, our, our lower schools is just much simpler.

So I'll take you to a quick tour.

So this is our poster.

This is what it looks like.

Hopefully you can all see it.

And, um, it will be in a shared folder or when you get the, uh, slides, it will also be here.

So we really only have eight points and it's not perfect.

There's like a point I wish I could have added.

And there are, there are, um, I quiz the boys every year.

I'm like, recite the points of the RUP in your own words and they can name five of these very confidently.

And the other few they're like, I don't remember.

But, um, this is very much our, these are our five values and they're very much tied to, uh, my school's, you know, behavior contracts.

So yeah.

So this is the REP infographically ended up with.

Um, I will show you like a little bit of the video.

So, uh, the boys always love watching this video because there's like a lot of teacher cameos.

Um, I don't know if you can hear it.

It's okay if you can't.

I, so that's our lower school head and we kind of like read it out loud, just especially for like the younger kids who can't really read.

And then, um, we have teacher cameos.

I am in it in it as well.

And then like we go to each point and then just read it out loud.

So that's our video.

Um, I edit it if like a teacher has departed and then I just gonna record a new teacher reading the line.

But it's kind of a read aloud video so that, you know, kids will remember and they love seeing their teachers in here.

Okay, so, uh, slide templates.

Um, here's some ideas.

So since ours are like, it is an infographic, I just cover up some words and I'm like, tell me what words go in here.

And they, they really like doing that.

They like telling me, oh, I know exactly which word goes in here.

And then here's another one where I'm like, great and I'm gonna take off all the points.

Tell me which points are in here.

So that is, uh, another one.

And then, um, the digital form for parents to sign.

It was a big do to, um, create this.

And every year I reiterated so that it gave me less work.

But like I used app scripts and I also did like, um, queries in the sheets to have it sort by teachers and classes.

And then, um, and then it kind of, I'll just do like a quick, I won't show the upper school one just 'cause um, I am just gonna show you what it kind of looks like.

Let's just say the student is in one A.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

So, uh, then we do like student agree, parent agrees.

If there's an easier way, please share with me.

We are moving to my school's, moving to a new SIS and hope that is a capability we have because, um, the form, it works now, but it took a lot of reiteration over the summer to get that.

And then they submit at the end and then I get it.

Um, I get a big spreadsheet separated by class.

I can see exactly who's filled it out per class.

Lots of formulas.

Happy to talk about that a different time.

I'm not gonna show the upper school version.

It's, it's a lot longer.

But, uh, I'll show you our upper school RUP now.

So, um, this is the print copy.

Um, and then I'm gonna just show you it's only two pages front and back.

That's really it.

Um, and uh, we tied it very much to our school.

Uh, our school themes though our, our values which are respect, integrity, curiosity, joy and belonging.

Um, I made this gap here so that it could be hole punched and not the words wouldn't disappear.

But, um, this section is actually one of our most important ones.

So what happens when something goes wrong? Um, this is where we talk about con uh, consequences.

And so it is a very separate and also very, um, important part.

They have to read this.

We do a bunch of activities that reinforce that.

So this is like, I've edited this a few years in a row just to help students understand more about like what gets covered or not under our, uh, accidental damage policy.

So, um, I will report such an incident to our tech department.

I always put our help desk email agree that if the device has been damaged or lost, stolen my family or I or any other responsible parties, I had to add that because that was a, a lot of kids asked about that.

And we had a few incidents where, uh, some someone different, like broke their device may be expected to pay for the repair or replacement hands.

Accidental damage policy covers one functional damage per school year and does not cover intentional damage or cosmetic damages such as miss and keys and scoffs.

So things like that we wanted to make really, really clear to students, put some fear in them, but also, um, so that they could understand, um, exactly what could happen.

So that's kind of our RUP, um, read it more later, but we shorten it to exactly two pages with signatures at the bottom.

Um, the video for upper school is much longer.

I've made it shorter through the years, but it's, there's just so many other points.

But the idea is the same.

You have points, you have a lot of teacher cameos.

Yeah, so things like that.

Um, I don't show this as much 'cause it's so long, but the boys can recite a lot of the lines, um, slides.

So, um, we, those were slides.

Uh, we have, uh, way ground and quizzes, games, I'll, here's some.

Um, and I did two.

I did one in the beginning of the year and one kind of in the middle of the year just 'cause it was requested I'd review it with the kids.

Um, advisory lessons.

So this is an important part of our delivery of the REP was kind of day by day introduction of it.

And the kids get this every year, but it's just so important because you're setting up expectations at the beginning of the year, especially if they use your devices all the time.

And so the first day is they watch the video and then they also have the print document in their binder or in Google classroom.

And they have have a timeline too.

So, uh, they don't use devices the first few days before they even use their devices.

They go through the REP.

And so, um, if I have any changes, I introduce it in these slides and then, then they say like, when you have your REP return, then you can use a device.

You get your one-on-one device.

So things like this.

And then we also discuss scenarios and that helps the boys kind of put, um, the RUP in practice.

And then they also at the end they get to play a fun kahoot or quizzes.

So, um, any updates I go through with them.

And I think that's really important because your RUP is such a, an important example of clear communication with your constituents.

And so if there is an a line you change, just go through it with them.

But yeah, so that, that was our additional line, which was the one functional damage per school year does not cover intentional or cosmetic damages.

Um, I even like had them, uh, I even had them like sort what, which of these would be functional, which would be intentional, which would be cosmetic.

Um, shout out to our, uh, awesome Chromebook vendors, CTL.

They have, uh, they're usually pretty fast turnaround with repairs and we've had a good experience kind of sending our devices to them.

So yeah, things like this.

Um, and then we also updated our AI stuff.

So making sure that, making sure when they cite anything they also cite AI.

And then, um, making sure like our school's a bit tight with a lot of technology.

They understand when they can use ai.

So, um, and then we have scenarios every year.

Uh, this is always fun for the boys to discuss, but it really puts them like has them apply the REP.

Okay.

So that's kind of our in practice.

We have, um, we also have assembly slides.

Uh, I'm, these are a lot easier.

These are like true or false questions.

Um, and it, it, it's just fun for kids to engage using their fingers or like their thumbs up, thumbs down at an assembly.

And so yeah, it's usually short.

And I also do like some PSAs in them.

Um, so yeah.

And then email drafts home, you're welcome to borrow this.

I did not come up with this.

Um, but it tells you exactly how to email who to CBCC and then um, you can then fill in the blanks.

So I did not create this, but I love that.

And then, uh, digital form for parents to sign.

I'm not gonna show it to you, you, it's much longer.

Uh, we also have our, uh, automated emails from our help desk and inventory, uh, that say like, Hey, just reminding you, this is what it says in our REP.

Yeah.

So, uh, that's kind of in action.

Everything we've come up with.

Do not panic.

We do not have to do this in one year.

A lot of this was like iterations throughout.

'cause I think this is now our third year of our new RUP.

So all this was done over multiple years.

Okay.

And then, um, one of the things I try to model it myself.

Like you'll see in all my images I try to like, um, I try to credit all my images and my sources and I am gonna hear like my work cited.

Uh, so has a great PDF.

I have a folder of um, R EEPs that I looked at, especially for lower school.

I think we kind of had an idea of what the upper school one would look like because it was just um, too long and then we just wanted to make it shorter and more memorable.

And then, um, this was a webinar I attended that was really helpful as well.

Um, and then, yeah, I wanted to uh, leave some time for questions.

I see a bunch of questions in the chat and feel free to like unmute yourselves and say anything that you would like me to answer.

Um, but yeah, uh, I know a lot of this like don't feel pressured by this is just, um, and it's not all just me.

It's a lot of people who collaborated on these, um, how to get buy-in for like, um, class time with students.

So we have a pretty robust advisory program.

I hope your school does too.

And so they needed programming for each and it was really important to like our upper school head that the kids looked at the RUP before they got devices.

So if that's the case for you all, then use that.

Be like, okay, if we need to have everyone sign the RUP before they get their devices, which is a very good incentive, um, program that in and be like, Hey, I need time in our advisory to have, uh, the boys look through our REP and then watch this video or play this game.

And so, um, and that might mean you delay giving them devices.

That was just always part of our timeline even before I arrived that they had assigned the REP before they got their devices.

Um, and then in terms of like other classes I have the poster is in every classroom it's some more visible.

Uh, a lot of the teachers show the videos when they first do device use.

Um, I will do some of the slides and be like, remind quick reminder.

I know you know it, but it's always good for us to review.

So I'll do it like beginning of the year as well as in January.

Um, so some of it is like other people will do and some of it is I will do when I see the kids, I don't see the kids that much to be honest.

But like, um, if they want me to come during assembly, I like, I'm like, great, here are my assembly slides, quick participatory, yes or no or thumbs up, thumbs down questions, things like that.

So yeah, um, yeah, so we, as you see, this is like the first thing here is like the basis of it.

Like it's our print document and then, then there's like a lot of ways to reinforce.

Um, okay.

Uh, are there any other questions that I can answer? Let me just look at the chat and feel free to unmute as well.

Um, yeah, so we rewrite it once a year.

Um, it is in our enrollment agreement.

It is also a separate form 'cause the boys have to sign it and that's different from like just the handbook.

'cause you know, a lot of the kids don't read this handbook, so it's like for the family.

So it is a form that they have to sign every year.

Um, yeah, I would definitely do it over the update your REP over the summer, especially if it has to go through the school lawyers.

Um, I would say fit everything on two pages.

I showed you our example print copy.

But I would say, um, when you simplify your language, it's just easier to have it fit on a, on plus print.

Um, and it would, I would not focus so many much on the negatives, but rather than like, this is what you're expected to do, be clear on that.

Um, we did add a line in our handbook about, uh, content, but like in general, um, we, we do say like, you know, your communications online have to be truthful and positive and kind.

Uh, we do have a line about, um, creating deep fakes of other people though in our handbook.

Um, let's see.

Other questions? Yeah, so if it's just your EPS are just in your handbook, maybe the students don't get as much interface with them.

So it's, that's why I have all of this is that, you know, it's a poster, it's a video, it's game, it's just reinforced.

It's not just, not just your document, but every way you're like reinforcing it.

Um, I, uh, timeframe of my roadmap, uh, let me go back and show the roadmap.

So, um, this was all done over a few months, well actually a year, a school year.

Um, so I had known there were issues with the R ps because there was just a lot of tech mis behavior issues.

So, um, I, when I first started, I knew it needed to be rewritten and there were people who like agreed with me.

And so, but the actual part of doing a lot of this, so the implement, revisit and revised as you know, is like it's the beginning of a school year and then revisit revises like the next year.

So the end of the school year or the summer when you revisit and then, uh, adapt your REP and then announce the changes in the next year.

So this is all through multiple school years, but I would say, um, if you want to do a lot of this, like steps two to six, you can do it in a few months.

Um, just definitely collaborate with your division heads to get meeting time.

Um, especially if you want feedback from your teachers.

So you can, I think I started this in uh, January and then we got through six in June and then the 7, 8, 9 is like during the school year, if that helps.

So yeah, um, it's an ongoing process.

We revisit and revise every year and anything that needs to be made clearer, we, we make clearer.

So.

Yeah.

Uh, so yeah, the I idea is you could probably start doing this now.

You could do this in a few months, especially if you want more, um, people in your divisions or in your uh, your greater employee population to help out.

And then this is school year.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, any other questions I can help answer? Well, people are typing their last questions.

I wanna say, first of all, thank you, um, with the resources that you are providing with this, um, you know, finding the best examples three and four, you know, that you've already kind of given everyone a head start here with, um, all the work you've put in and been willing to share with the community.

So thank you so much.

Oh yeah, you're welcome.

Yeah.

Um, yeah, I'm happy to, all this will be shared with you.

Um, yeah, I'm gonna kind of just go back to the, our RUP in action.

'cause like it's not just a document, it's, you are just reminding everyone what are the points of the document.

Yeah.

So, um, Yeah, it's, it's so impressive how you've embedded it like so deeply into your school's culture.

That's definitely, yeah.

And I think that's why people just remember it because just, we just keep bombarding them with reminders.

Amazing.

So, um, yeah, you have the first thing, which is the actual print document and then you have everything else that's just reminders throughout the year.

Um, and of course you're gonna do a bulk of this implementation is at the beginning of the year 'cause you don't need to get it signed and you need students to know about it, but, um, you also want to just reinforce it 'cause it's part of now your digital citizenship curriculum, like a good RUP is at the foundation of what you expect your, how your students to behave on devices online.

Um, anyway, I wanted to leave this off with, um, I know I know some of you here, which is awesome.

I'm excited to see some of you again, but, um, if you don't know me, I, you can reach me at this email address.

I also have a LinkedIn.

Um, I wanted to say I'm actually going on parental leave in like two weeks congrat.

So, uh, I'll probably not reply back to you for a little bit, but, um, if, yeah, if you wanna reach out, this is how to do it.

Uh, I'm happy to answer questions after I come back, but, um, you'll get, you'll get these resources, uh, use 'em as examples, just gimme credit, but you know, it's free to use.

Um, so yeah.

Uh, any other questions? I have a couple of announcements and updates from Atlas, if I may take the last couple of minutes.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

Um, and if people have questions, just definitely throw them in the chat.

So once again, thank you and congrats to you Mimi, that's really exciting.

Um, I want to just remind everyone, if you have not seen that our annual conference registration is open.

So, um, unfortunately it doesn't look like Mimi.

You will be there, um, this spring.

You'll be on leave, but hopefully we see many of you in Columbus this April.

I also wanted to let you all know you may have, uh, remembered last year we announced that we're working on a dashboard, um, project for our Atlas 360 self-study.

Um, we need your help, we want you, and this kind of goes in alignment with, um, reviewing what you have going on, reviewing your r rus and assessing things.

We would love you to do the Atlas 360 self-study and then go ahead and actually fill out the, um, survey that I am dropping.

Um, you'll connect it to your school.

If you're an Atlas member school, you'll find it in the dropdown.

If not, you can complete it without that and you'll be able to kind of look at your progress year over year.

Um, and this will help us build a larger dashboard where you'll be, be able to benchmark yourself against other schools.

Um, so we're excited about that resource, but we need you to go ahead and put your, um, preliminary baseline material there.

A couple other things.

The applications are open for our next cohort of the Atlas Leadership Institute.

I see some alumni on this call.

Um, and then we also have the testing window for the technology leader in independent school certification.

The T list certification is coming up, so we'll keep, um, sharing all of those announcements with you.

Um, but with that, thank you for letting me take a couple minutes at the end of this.

And thank you again, Mimi.

Um, we'll be sending out these resources.

This is absolutely incredible and very timely to start looking at now, um, before the summer hits us faster than we expect.

Any other last minute questions? All right, thank you.

I'll go ahead and stop the recording..