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Danielle DuShane; SeonYeong Yu – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Expulsion is the harshest form of disciplinary action, and behavior policies are the foundation for this decision-making process. The purpose of this study is to uncover how behavior policies used in early childhood settings describe expulsion practices. Among the 111 early childhood programs in Western Massachusetts that met the search criteria…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschools, Discipline Policy, Expulsion
Solomon, Bonnie J.; Vazzano, Andrea; Rodriguez, Yosmary; Martinez, Michael; Tansey, Jonathan; Harper, Kristen – Child Trends, 2023
Recent years have seen a range of new state policies to reduce and prevent the use of suspension and expulsion in early childhood education (ECE) settings. Policymakers in some states have worked to limit disciplinary removals in public ECE programs by restricting suspension and expulsion in early grade levels and requiring or encouraging…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Early Childhood Education, Suspension
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Bartlett, Nadine A.; Ellis, Taylor Floyd – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2021
Information about the use of physical restraint, seclusion, and time-out rooms in Canadian schools has primarily been anecdotal (media reports and anonymous survey data) due to uneven and non-existent mandates for reporting, transparency and public accountability. The absence of clearly articulated mandates to provide written documentation and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Discipline Policy, Punishment, Behavior Problems
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Hampton, Liz; Ramoutar, Lata – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
Aim: The aim of this paper is to consider the use of current low-level behaviour management systems in secondary schools and how educational psychologists can best work alongside these systems. It does this by combining a psychological discussion about low-level behaviour management systems with the findings from a mixed methods research project…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Psychology
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Christopher Cleveland – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background: Suspensions can have negative effects on students' immediate academic and long-run outcomes, including increasing their likelihood of being arrested and incarcerated as an adult (Bacher-Hicks, Billings, Deming, 2019). School discipline practices have become a concern of families and policymakers and there have been increasing local,…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, School Policy, Educational Change, Suspension
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James Bear Mahowald; Sarah Winchell Lenhoff; Erica B. Edwards; Jeremy Singer – High School Journal, 2023
Since the incorporation of student chronic absenteeism rates into state school accountability systems after the passage of the "Every Student Succeeds Act," schools have adopted new practices to improve student attendance and decrease chronic absenteeism. Some of these practices borrow features from behavior management systems such as…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Correctional Institutions, Student Behavior, Discipline
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Curran, F. Chris; Finch, Maida A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: Over the past decade, increasing attention to the negative impacts of exclusionary discipline and disparities therein has led many state educational leaders to enact school discipline reforms. This study examined the response by school district leadership to a state's revision of guidelines for student codes of conduct. Data: This study…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Discipline Policy, Administrator Surveys, School Districts
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Nishioka, Vicki; Stevens, David; Deutschlander, Denise; Burke, Arthur; Merrill, Becca; Aylward, Alex – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
In 2013 and 2015 Oregon enacted legislation that shifted school discipline policies from a zero-tolerance approach to one that emphasizes preventing behavioral problems and reducing unnecessary suspensions and expulsions. Suspensions and expulsions are often referred to as exclusionary discipline because they remove students from classroom…
Descriptors: State Policy, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Prevention
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
This is the appendixes for the report, "Are State Policy Reforms in Oregon Associated with Fewer School Suspensions and Expulsions?" This study examined the association between state-level policy reforms and suspension and expulsion rates for grades K-12 in Oregon public schools. The findings suggest that the policy shift has led to some…
Descriptors: State Policy, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Prevention
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Valenti, Michael W.; Kerr, Mary Margaret – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2015
Consensus among the majority of staff is essential for the development and consistent implementation of the Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) framework. At the universal level, a shared vision reflects consensus regarding operational definitions of behaviors (rules) and consequences. Yet, decades of research indicate…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Discipline Policy, Intervention
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De Nobile, John; El Baba, Mariam; London, Teola – School Leadership & Management, 2016
When considering the management of student behaviour issues, a substantial body of literature, as well as logical common sense, points to the advantages of whole school policy over the individual efforts of teachers. Less is known, however, about the direct or indirect role school leadership plays in the development of well-implemented whole…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, School Administration, Leadership Effectiveness
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Smolkowski, Keith; Strycker, Lisa; Ward, Bryce – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
This study evaluated the scale-up of a Safe & Civil Schools "Foundations: Establishing Positive Discipline Policies" positive behavioral interventions and supports initiative through 4 years of "real-world" implementation in a large urban school district. The study extends results from a previous randomized controlled trial…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Educational Environment, School Safety, School Culture
Gagnon, Douglas; Mattingly, Marybeth; Connelly, Vincent J. – Carsey School of Public Policy, 2014
In 2013, Carsey released a brief that analyzed rates of restraint and seclusion using a large, nationally representative data set of U.S. school districts. This brief, which analyzes a more comprehensive data set and the most current Civil Rights Data Collection, serves as a follow-up to the previous brief. Authors Douglas Gagnon, Marybeth…
Descriptors: School Districts, State Policy, School Policy, Discipline Policy
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D'Souza, Mildred; Jament, Johnson – Support for Learning, 2015
This article reports a study conducted on children's social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) in a single pre-primary school in Bangalore, with the objective of developing a behaviour management policy for use by teachers. Limited evidence is available in the Indian literature in the area of SEBD and it remains important to know how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Social Problems, Emotional Problems
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Bon, Susan C.; Zirkel, Perry A. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2014
During the past two decades, scholars, educators, and special interest organizations, including advocacy groups, have critically examined and debated the ethical and legal use of aversive interventions with individuals with disabilities. These interventions comprise a broad spectrum of behavior management techniques including but not at all…
Descriptors: Timeout, Behavior Problems, Laws, School Law
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