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O'Grady, Courtney E.; Jackle, Erin M.; Ostrosky, Michaelene M. – Young Exceptional Children, 2023
Many early educators struggle with how to address challenging behaviors that they feel are persistent, and in fact, challenging behavior is identified as teachers' most pressing training need. Feeling unprepared to prevent and intervene on challenging behavior can lead to increased teacher stress, burnout, and turnover. In the most extreme…
Descriptors: Suspension, Early Childhood Education, Student Behavior, Preschool Children
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Allday, R. Allan; Burt, Jonathan L.; Haggard, Kaitlin N. – Preventing School Failure, 2021
Research has suggested that students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds (e.g., students of color and those with disabilities) have received higher rates of exclusionary discipline (e.g., suspensions and expulsions) than their peers who are White and without disability. Various interventions have been implemented to address this…
Descriptors: Discipline, Disproportionate Representation, Student Behavior, Educational Change
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
Reflecting an overall policy shift in Oregon and nationwide, Oregon passed laws in 2013 and 2015 aimed at changing the way school discipline is applied in grades K-12. The 2013 legislation directed districts to replace zero-tolerance policies with an emphasis on preventing and reducing unnecessary student suspensions and expulsions. Suspensions…
Descriptors: State Policy, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Prevention
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Foster, Elizabeth – Learning Professional, 2021
As awareness has grown about the harmful effects of exclusionary discipline, especially on the Black and Brown students who are disproportionately suspended and expelled, so, too, has interest in alternative approaches to discipline. Restorative practices focus on building or repairing relationships to address or preempt conflict. They are based…
Descriptors: Discipline, Racial Bias, Ethnicity, Minority Group Students
Rafa, Alyssa – Education Commission of the States, 2018
Exclusionary and punitive school discipline policies, such as suspensions and expulsions, allow educators to remove students from the classroom for poor behavior or misconduct. However, emerging research suggests that these practices also increase the likelihood that students repeat grades, are excessively absent from school, drop out entirely…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Suspension
Ashley, Dana M. – American Educator, 2016
When teachers wonder "What should I do?" in response to challenging student behaviors, the answers are not as simple as they might seem. What teachers can do also depends, at least in part, on external demands (e.g., discipline codes, principal expectations, time pressures on teaching content and testing) that can either facilitate or…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Positive Behavior Supports, Teacher Effectiveness, Holistic Approach
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Cardichon, Jessica; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
As states develop their accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) they can choose high-leverage measures of school progress that, when combined with effective policies, hold promise for supporting success for the youth most marginalized by the education system. This paper suggests that to promote equity and…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Standards, Equal Education, Suspension
Lawrence, K. S. – National Center on Schoolwide Inclusive School Reform: The SWIFT Center, 2016
This brief describes how to use a free online behavior screener to identify student support needs in middle and high schools. Inclusive Behavior Instruction utilizes data to identify appropriate social-emotional supports for all students. The Lane et al. (2016) study demonstrated system-wide use of a free online behavior screener at the middle and…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Middle School Students
Willoughby, Brian – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
Schools in Maryland and Connecticut are rethinking suspension policies and practices. They are finding that promoting positive behavior choices rather than punishing the negative is leading to higher graduation rates, especially among students of color. In the 2003-2004 academic year, Baltimore City Public Schools recorded 26,000 suspensions. Six…
Descriptors: Suspension, Behavior Problems, Graduation Rate, Zero Tolerance Policy
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Losen, Daniel J. – National Education Policy Center, 2011
This document presents a summary of the larger report "Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice." State legislation is an important lever for improving the equity of student discipline policies. However, states vary tremendously, and only some provide accurate public reports on school discipline, support effective…
Descriptors: Suspension, State Legislation, Educational Change, Discipline Policy
Schuta, Theresa; Mauricio, David – Principal Leadership, 2012
Three years ago, the authors accepted positions as high school principals in Buffalo City (NY) Schools after serving as elementary school principals in the district for many years. In their new positions, they were to lead schools that were designated by the New York State Department of Education as "persistently lowest achieving,"…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Principals, Graduation Rate, Positive Reinforcement
Willoughby, Brian – Teaching Tolerance, 2012
Schools in Maryland and Connecticut are rethinking suspension policies and practices. They are finding that promoting positive behavior choices rather than punishing the negative is leading to higher graduation rates, especially among students of color. In the 2003-2004 academic year, Baltimore City Public Schools recorded 26,000 suspensions. Six…
Descriptors: Suspension, School Culture, Graduation Rate, Zero Tolerance Policy
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Losen, Daniel J. – National Education Policy Center, 2011
This document presents a summary of the larger report "Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice." Each year, more than 3.25 million K-12 students are suspended at least once. African American students are suspended three times as often as White students--15 percent versus 5 percent. Hispanic students (7 percent) and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, African American Students, Suspension, American Indians
Stetson, Frank H.; Collins, Betty J. – Principal Leadership, 2010
The overrepresentation of the Black and Hispanic subgroups in suspension data is a national problem and a troubling issue for schools and school systems across the United States. In Maryland, an analysis of student suspensions by school districts for the 2006-2007 school year revealed disproportionality issues. In 23 of the 24 jurisdictions,…
Descriptors: Suspension, Academic Achievement, Disproportionate Representation, Educational Change
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2009
This Research Note is in response to a request from the Office of Alternative Education to review and report on "model disciplinary policies" as used in school districts around the nation. The primary source of information used to prepare this Research Note came from a professional group identified by Alternative Education. The Advancement…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Discipline Policy, School Districts, Educational Change
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