Future Professional Development Guidelines

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All Future Professionals must commit to and follow the Future Professional Development Guidelines during their enrollment in the school. These guidelines were established to assist in creating a safe, focused, and enjoyable learning experience. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in a coaching under the Future Professional Advisory Policy and may result in termination without prior warning. 

Attendance and Documentation of Time

  1. The school records attendance in clock hours and gives appropriately earned attendance credit for all hours attended and does not add or deduct attendance hours as a penalty. Attendance is calculated using an attendance tracking app called CourseKey. 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. If a Future Professional fails to clock in or out for their schedule, the Future Professional will not receive hours.  A Future Professional can receive credit for no more than 7 hours per day and 40 hours per week per section 339.1205 5a of Act 299 - The Michigan Occupational Code.
    It is the responsibility of the Future Professional to ensure that they are properly clocking in or out as required. If a Future Professional fails to clock in or out for their schedule on the Future Professional time clock, the Future Professional will not receive hours for the time with missed time punches. To ensure proper credit for clock hours, Future Professionals are required to clock in or out at  the following times:
    • When they arrive at school,
    • When they leave for lunch,
    • When they return  from lunch,
    • When they leave at the end of day;
    • If a Future Professional leaves the premises for any reason, and
    • If a Future Professional is taking a break over 10 minutes, they are required to clock out.

      If the Future Professional wishes to dispute any  hours they feel earned, the Future Professional must provide documentation to verify attendance to verify attendance on the missing time form. The documentation could include the Future Professional sign in sheet, the specialty class attendance role, and/or the guest service summary.
      If a Future Professional is experiencing timeclock challenges and are unable to clock in or out, they must report the challenge to the Future Professional Advisor within 24 hours.
  2. The school is open from Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM.
  3. The Future Professional must attend school according to the schedule in the Future Professional's enrollment agreement. All programs require continuous attendance.
  4. Full Time Future Professionals may not miss Wednesday.
  5. Future Professionals must be on time, as tardiness inhibits the learning process. Future Professionals who are late for any class must be accompanied into the classroom by a Learning Leader. Future Professionals are never excused from mandatory theory classes to work in the clinic classroom. Future Professionals that arrive later than 9:00 AM will not be allowed to attend school. The only exception that would allow school attendance for a tardy arrival is a Doctors note.
  6. Attendance Expectation Generally: Future Professionals must maintain a 100% attendance average each month in order to complete the program by the expected/calculated completion date. The school attendance policy requires 80% to maintain satisfactory progress. Falling below this number means that the Future Professional may receive a coaching on the advisory form for their attendance.
  7. CORE/Protege Attendance Expectation: Future Professionals attend Core/Protege for the first weeks of  enrollment. During this time the Future Professional must maintain a monthly attendance of 90%. If at the conclusion of the month, the Future Professional's progress report does not meet 90% attendance, the Future Professional may be  dropped from the program and may be asked to re-enroll in the next Core class start date. 

  8. Extra Instructional Charges: During the contracted enrollment period, the Future Professional must maintain a 80% attendance average each month in order to complete the program by the expected/calculated completion date. The Future Professional is allowed to miss 10% absent hours of their scheduled hours before having to pay extra instructional charges. The Future Professional may use the 10% absent hours for vacation, doctor appointments, illness, etc.; however, the Future Professional may not be out of school for 14 consecutive calendar days or they may be terminated. If the Future Professional must attend additional program hours beyond their expected/calculated completion date due to not meeting an 80% attendance average or failure to complete academic graduation requirements, the Future Professional will be charged an additional hourly charge for each hour scheduled to complete after  the expected/calculated completion date is reached. 
     

    Extra Instructional Charges
    Cosmetology150 clock hours$13.12 per clock hour
    Instructor60 clock hours$8.50 per clock hour
  9. Future Professionals are required to be in attendance and actively participating in their education. When a Future Professional is scheduled for attendance by not present, these will be reflected as absent hours. If a Future Professional does not clock in or out properly resulting in the hours not being counted, these will be reflected in the absent, hours unless the missing time form and necessary documentation is provided as outlined in the catalog. 

    If a Future Professional is absent refer  to the schools make-up hour policy on how to make-up those hours. Please keep in mind make-up hours and policies are optional for the school to provide and may be changed. 

    Future Professionals will receive clock hours during the times they fully participate in their learning experience.
     
  10. Vacation and Planned Time Away (e.g. medical appointments, outside commitments): Future Professionals must request planned time off from school from the Future Professional Advisor and the Financial Services Leader. The approval of any request does not mean that the Future Professional will continue to meet the attendance requirements or will be charged for additional instructional time per the above.
  11. Unplanned Absences or Tardies: Future Professionals who are late or cannot attend school must contact the school and talk to the school service desk team immediately. Day Future Professionals must call in by 9:00 AM and night school 5:00 PM.

  12. Lunch and Breaks are scheduled for all Futures Professional. All full-time Future Professionals are required to take a 30-minutes lunch break. Future Professional will take a 10 minute break as scheduled by school administration.

    Observe the appropriate breaks for your school schedule. Breaks are as follows: 

    Future Professional ScheduleBreaksLunch
    10 hr./day10 min. in the morning & 10 min. in  the afternoon30 min. 
    6 hr./day10 min. in the morning & 10 min. in  the afternoon30 min.
  13. Documentation of time: Future Professionals may not leave the school premises during regular hours without a Learning Leader's permission.
    1. Future Professionals  who leave the school premises for more than 10 minutes or those who leave early must document their time by clocking out on the time clock, signing the sign-out sheet, and having a Learning Leader book them out.
    2. Future Professionals who leave the school premises for less than 10 minutes must sign the sign-out break sheet.
    3. Saturday Day Future Professionals must clock out on the time clock for 30 minute lunch. Future Professionals will not receive credit for the hour if they fail to clock in/out for 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.

Professional Image

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

  1. Future Professionals may wear black, gray and white in any combination.
  2. Clothing should be professional and clean.
  3. All shoes must be closed toe and closed heel. Colored shoes are allowed.
  4. Hair should be styled prior to arriving at the school.
  5. Any cosmetics should be applied prior to arriving at the school.
  6. The following is a list of acceptable dress:
    1. Jeans or clothing made of jean material if they are black, gray or white. Any rips or tears must fall below the fingertips, when standing up.
    2. Tank tops must have a strap that is 1 inch in width.
    3. Sweatshirts, T-shirts, hooded sweatshirts and/or jackets with the Paul Mitchell logo or the school logo. All other brands' logos must be smaller than your metal name tag.
    4. Stylish hats, scarves, beanies, baseball hats, and stylish head wraps.
    5. Shorts and/or skirts that fall below the fingertips.
  7. Tights, leggings, or biker shorts must be made of thick material and not see through.
  8. Crop tops that only expose up to 1 inch of midriff.
  9. Name Tag - as provided by the school. All Future Professionals are required to wear a name tag while in attendance.

The following is a list of unacceptable dress for all Future Professionals in attendance:

  1. No outerwear blankets, slippers, crocks, sandals, and slides.
  2. Sweatpants or pajama bottoms.
  3. Shorts and/or skirts that fall above fingertips, when standing up.
  4. Visors, bandanas, and bonnets.
  5. Headphones, headgear, airpods, and/or earphones are not permitted in the classroom or the clinic classroom.
  6. Sunglasses.

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

**Students that do not comply with the dress code will be required to wear a smock that is provided by the school. If a student refuses to wear a smock they will be sent home.

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 in 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. The students must complete the following prior to starting a service.
    1. Seek permission and approval from a Learning Leader according to the criteria below:
      • Be maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress.
      • Be current in practical skill assessments, theory attendance and tests.
    2. Be scheduled off the service book by the Service Desk Coordinator.
    3. Pay for all services.

      Personal services must be rescheduled when the student is scheduled to take a guest. Students must reschedule their personal service and complete appointments assigned to them. Personal services are considered rewards and scheduled for students who are up to date with all projects, tests, and practical skill assessments. 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. Students 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.
  10. Use of any device to record communications, whether oral or electronic, of any student, instructor, or any individual affiliated with Paul Mitchell the School, without the consent of everyone taking part in the communication is prohibited. It is also prohibited for any student to use or divulge any information which he or she knows or reasonably should know was obtained through the recording of a communication of any student, instructor, or any individual affiliated with Paul Mitchell the School, without the consent of everyone taking part in the communication.

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 initiated 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 practical skill assessments through CourseKey
    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. If a Future Professional fails to complete the practical skill assessments or required weekly theory hours they will be placed on the Back on Track list. Future Professionals have one week to get caught up before receiving a coaching advisory.
  14. If a Future Professional fails to pass the Core written and/or practical exam on their second attempt, they may be asked to withdraw from the program and restart in the next Core class start date.
  15. The school requires a Future Professional to complete all theory hours as part of their graduation requirements. Refer to the graduation requirements.