immediate danger. School programs must implement proactive strategies and interventions to reduce the likelihood of these incidents and must have clearly identified responses to address them when they occur. In December 2011, the Alabama State Board of Education adopted Rule 290-3-1-.02(1)(f) regarding the use of seclusion and restraint for all students and the Talladega City School Board has adopted policy consistent with this Rule. The Rule prohibits the use of seclusion and limits the use of physical restraint to those situations in which students are an immediate danger to themselves or others. These procedures were developed in accordance with this Rule and School Board policy.

Seclusion is prohibited in Talladega City's schools and educational programs. Seclusion does not include situations in which a staff member who is trained in the use of de-escalation techniques or restraint is physically present in the same unlocked room as the student, time-out as defined below, in-school suspension, detention, or a student-requested break in a different location in the room or in a separate room.

Time-out refers to a behavioral intervention in which the student is temporarily removed from the learning activity. Time-out is appropriately used when:

- 1. The non-locking setting used for time-out is appropriately lighted, ventilated and heated or cooled;
- 2. The duration of the time-out is reasonable in light of the purpose of the time-out and the age of the student but should not exceed 45 minutes per time-out;
- 3. The student is reasonably monitored by an attending adult who is in reasonable physical proximity of the student and has sight of the student while in time-out; and
- 4. The time-out space is free of objects that unreasonably expose the student or others to harm.

## The Use of Physical Restraint

Chemical and mechanical restraint is prohibited, as is physical restraint if the restraint restricts the flow of air to a student's lungs. The use of physical restraint is only to be used in those situations where a student is an immediate danger to self or others and when the student is not responsive to less intensive de-escalation techniques. Only physical restraint included in the district's adopted approach of Glenwood -Managing Crisis Safely is to be used. Appropriate staff at each school will be trained and/or re-certified in the use of MCS. In all instances, the use of restraint will be monitored and documented.

## Physical restraint will not be used:

- • When the student is responsive to less intensive interventions and de-escalation techniques, such as verbal commands and directives
- • As a form of discipline or punishment or as a means to obtain compliance

Physical restraint does not include providing limited physical contact and/or redirection to promote student safety or prevent self-injurious behavior, providing physical guidance or prompting when teaching a skill, redirecting attention, providing guidance to a location, providing comfort, or providing limited physical contact as reasonably needed to prevent imminent destruction to school or another person's property. For instance, running after and holding a student who is about to run in front of an oncoming vehicle is not in any way