Student Professional Development Guidelines

All students must commit to and follow the Student Professional Development Guidelines during their enrollment at Paul Mitchell The School Indianapolis. These guidelines were established to assist in creating a safe, focused, and enjoyable learning experience.

Attendance and Documentation of Time

1. The school records attendance in clock hours and gives appropriate attendance credit for all hours attended. The school does not add or deduct attendance hours as a penalty. Attendance is calculated using a computerized timeclock. This device may consist of an app that can be used on your phone, a biometric scanner in the school, or similar device. To ensure proper credit for clock hours, full-time students are required to clock in/out 4 times a day: when they arrive at school, when they leave for lunch, when they return from lunch, and when they leave at the end of the day. Part-time students are required to clock in/out 2 times a day: when they arrive at school and when they leave at the end of the day. If a student fails to clock in or out for their schedule on the student time clock, the student will not receive hours.
2. The school is open from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM for 5 day students, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM for 3 day students, and 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM for night students.
3. All courses require continuous attendance.
4. The prescribed attendance schedule must be maintained each week. Alternate schedules are available to those students who qualify.
5. Night and 3-day students may not miss Mondays; day students may not miss Fridays or their scheduled theory day.
6. Students must be on time, as tardiness inhibits the learning process. Students who are late for theory, a specialty class or a guest artist class may attend the class, but must be accompanied into the classroom by a learning leader. Students are never excused from mandatory theory class to work in the clinic classroom.
7. During the enrollment contract period, the student is allowed to miss 150 hours (cosmetology), 100 hours (cosmetology instructor), 70 hours (esthetician), and 45 (manicurist) before having to pay extra instructional charges. If the student’s training goes beyond the contracted ending date for course completion, the student will be charged an additional $5.50 for each hour completed after the contract ending date. The student may use the 150 (cosmetology), 100 (cosmetology instructor), 70 hours (esthetician), and 45 (manicurist) allowed absent hours for vacation, appointments, illness, etc.
   
    **Refer to the school enrollment contract for the Enrollment Contract Period definition. Please note that if a student misses more than 14 consecutive calendar days, the student may be terminated from the program.
8. Students who are late or cannot attend school must contact the school and talk to the school service desk immediately. Day students must call in by 8:30 AM; night students must call in by 1:30 PM.
9. Students who arrive to school more than 15 minutes late will not be permitted to clock in and will be counted as absent for the day, unless prior arrangements have been made with an appropriate staff member.
10. Students must request time off from school from the Education Leader.
11. Students attend 7 hours a day, Tuesday-Saturday (35 hours per week) for full-time schedule; 10 hours a day, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays (30 hours per week) for full-time 3-day schedule; 5 hours a day, Monday-Thursday (20 hours per week) for part-time schedule. Holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day will be set according to the calendar each year. Students cannot bank hours and attend over 35 hours per week to make up for missing hours. If a student will miss hours during the week, arrangements must be made with the Director to make up those hours within the same week, or the hours missed will count against the hours allowed to miss and overtime charges can occur.
12. Lunches and breaks are scheduled for all students. Day students will take 30 minutes for lunch between 12:00 noon and 1:00 PM, if possible, according to their booking. Students should communicate with their instructor if they have not had lunch by 1:00 PM.
    
    Observe the appropriate breaks for your school schedule. Breaks are as follows:

13. Documentation of time: Students may not leave the school premises during regular hours without an instructor’s permission.
    1. Students who leave school premises or those who leave early must document their time by clocking out on the time clock, signing the sign-out sheet, and having an instructor book them out.
    2. Day students must clock out on the time clock for lunch for 30 minutes every day. Students will not receive credit for the hours if they fail to clock in/out for lunch.
    3. Students will not receive their clock hours if they fail to clock in/out properly. Students will only receive clock hours for proper times punched. Ex: If a student clocked in for the day, clocked out for lunch (but did not clock back in from lunch), and they clocked out at the end of the day. The student would only receive time from the time they clocked in, in the morning until the time they clocked out for lunch due to not clocking back in from lunch.
14. Students may not clock in or out for another student.
15. Students must keep a record of all services each day on the “service tracking sheet,” which must be completed daily and turned in every month.
16. Students attend Core the first 6 weeks (210 clock hours) of enrollment. During this time the student must maintain a monthly attendance of 90%. If at the conclusion of the month, the student’s progress report is not 90% attendance, the student may be dropped from the program and asked to re-enroll in the next class start date.

Professional Image

All Future Professionals must adhere to the following professional dress code while in attendance:

1. Future Professionals must wear solid black only. No prints, designs, or embellishments.
2. Clothing should be neat and clean.
3. Shoes should be close-toed, practical, professional and comfortable. These may be colorful or have print.
4. Hair should be styled prior to arriving at the school.
5. Any cosmetics should be applied prior to arriving at the school.

The following is a list of acceptable dress:

1. Sleeveless tops.
2. Black blouses, solid black sweatshirts with no hoods, sweatshirts with no hoods/t-shirts/jackets with the Paul Mitchell logo or the school.
3. Stylist hats, scarves, and stylish head wraps.
4. Solid black dress pants.
5. Solid black joggers.
6. Solid black skirts/dresses that fall below the fingertips.
7. Name tag .

The following is a list of unacceptable dress:

1. Denim of any kind.
2. White, Gray, or color of any kind.
3. Foot thongs or beach sandals.
4. Tank tops, spaghetti strap tops, crop tops.
5. Sweatpants.
6. Sweatshirts, hooded sweatshirts, jackets and printed T-shirts other than Paul Mitchell logo.
7. Shorts of any kind.
8. Skirts and dresses that fall above the fingertips when standing up.
9. Baseball hats, visors, bandanas, caps, or beanies.
10. Spandex or biking shorts.
11. Headphones, headgear, and/or earphones are not permitted.
12. Sunglasses.
13. Slippers.

Future Professionals who fail to comply with the Future Professional dress code may be coached and may receive an advisory.

Sanitation and Personal Services

1. Future Professionals must keep workstations and classroom areas clean, sanitary, and clutter-free at all times.
2. Future Professionals must clean their stations on the clinic classroom, including the floor, after each service.
3. Hair must be swept up immediately after a service is completed, before blow-drying.
4. Clinic stations must be cleaned at the end of the day, prior to clocking out for the day.
5. Future Professionals may receive services on Tuesday through Thursday. To receive a service, students must do the following prior to starting the service:
   1. Notify a Learning Leader.
   2. Be scheduled off the service books by a Learning Leader.
   3. Pay for service supplies including perms, color, lightener, rinses, conditioning, treatments, manicures, nails, etc.
   4. Personal services are considered rewards and scheduled for Future Professionals who are up to date with all practicals, exams, and clinic practical worksheets. School assignments and successful learning are the priority.

Communication Guidelines and Professional Conduct

1. Visitors are allowed in the service reception area only. Visitors are not allowed in the classrooms, student lounge, or clinic classroom area.
2. Only emergency calls are permitted on the business phone. Future Professional may use the student phones for a limited time. Please keep your calls to three (3) minutes or less.
3. Cell phones are permitted in assigned areas of the school.
4. Future Professionals may not visit with another Future Professional who is servicing a service guest.
5. Future Professionals may not gather around the service desk, service reception area, or offices.
6. Food, drinks, and water bottles are allowed only in the lunchroom.
7. The school is a smoke-free campus.
8. Stealing or taking school property or another’s personal property is unacceptable and grounds for termination.
9. School administration has the right to access and inspect a Future Professionals locker at any time, refer to the locker policy.

Learning Participation Guidelines

1. Peer teaching and tutoring are encouraged. Taking credit for another’s work or cheating during exams is unacceptable and is grounds for termination.
2. Future Professionals will be expected to maintain an average of 75% on all theory tests and assignments.
3. Future Professionals may not be released from required theory class to take a client.
4. Only service desk personnel may schedule or change client service appointments.
5. All services must be checked and the service ticket initialed by a Learning Leader.
6. Future Professionals are expected to be continuously working on school-related projects, assignments, clinic practical worksheets, reading theory, or test preparation during school hours.
7. Future Professionals will receive clock hours during the times they fully participate in their learning experience.
8. When Future Professionals are not scheduled with service appointments or are not scheduled to attend theory or a specialty class, they may focus on the following
   1.  Completion of clinic practical worksheets
   2. Completion of theory review worksheets
   3. Performing a service on another Future Professional
   4. Listening to or reading school resource center materials, including educational videos, audiotapes, and books
9. Future Professionals must comply with school personnel and Learning Leader’s assignments and requests as required by the curriculum and Future Professional guidelines and rules.
10. Future Professionals may not perform hair, skin, barber or nail services outside of school unless authorized to do so by school administration. Conducting unauthorized hair, skin, barber or nail services outside of school will be reported to the state board and may result in your inability to receive a professional license.
11. Future Professionals are responsible for their own kit and equipment and may use a clinic station drawer only while working at that clinic station. All kit, equipment, tools, and personal items must be secured in the Future Professionals assigned locker. The school is not responsible for any lost or stolen articles.
12.  Parking is allowed in assigned parking areas only or cars may be towed at the owner’s expense.
13. All clinic practical worksheets are due on the assigned day of each month by the end of the school day.
14. If  a Future Professional fails to complete a worksheet 100%, the Future Professional will be placed on the Back on Track list and will remain on the list until the following month.
15. If a Future Professionals fails to pass the Core written and/or practical exam on their second attempt, they may be asked to withdraw from the program and re-start in the next Core class start date.
16. Theory Class: The school requires a Future Professional to complete all theory hours as part of their graduation requirements. Refer to the graduation requirements.