All employees have a continuing responsibility to protect the school’s confidential and proprietary information, both during and after their employment with CSB. Such confidential information includes, for example, private information about students and their families, financial data, donor information, or any other proprietary information acquired through employment at CSB. This information should be kept strictly confidential. Care should be taken to protect confidential information from disclosure. It should be marked “confidential,” kept out of sight, and stored in locked cabinets or drawers when not in use. Any proprietary information not in use should be shredded. It is not to be discussed outside the School, except as necessary in the normal course of business and cannot be used except for the benefit of the school. CSB’s telephone, Internet, and email systems are important school asset and intended for school- related use. Personal calls should be made sparingly. Employees are expected to limit all personal calls so as not to interfere with work. Although employees have passwords that restrict access to voicemail messages left for them on the School’s voicemail system, employees should be aware that the School can access any messages stored in the voicemail or email systems and may do so from time to time. Therefore, employees should not assume that such messages are confidential. Before contacting a parent, a teacher must discuss the intent of communication with the Division Head. In particular, a teacher must have a discussion with the Division Director when he/she questions a student’s ability to perform at grade level and/or would like to suggest tutoring. All significant, non-routine conversation between teachers and parents should be communicated to the appropriate Division Director by email or through a personal meeting. Similarly, all formal conferences are to be scheduled with the approval of the Division Head. Teachers should make every effort to address the individual learning needs of each student through a variety of strategies. If a teacher determines that a student needs additional tutoring, he/she should discuss it with the learning specialist and the Division Director before contacting the parent. If a parent contacts a teacher to request tutoring, the request must be referred to the Division Head. Teachers are not permitted to tutor students in their own classes for pay. If a teacher would like to contact parents about their son’s severe academic or socio-emotional struggles, he/she must consult the learning specialist or school counselor, and Division Head before doing so. A joint meeting with the teacher, learning specialist or counselor, and Division General Communication School-Home Communications
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