Traditional school discipline practices are considered separate from the academic mission of the school.
Combine the struggles in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another problem traceable to ed schools), the arbitrary nature of
traditional school discipline practices, and the problems within American public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a problem for our kids.
Not exact matches
Restorative
practices are a burgeoning alternative to
traditional punitive justice such as suspensions (both in
school and out of
school) and other exclusionary forms of
discipline.
The
School Climate Bill of Rights is part of the District's larger effort to transform our
discipline policies from
traditional approaches toward more restorative
practices.
This shift in
discipline policy would eliminate or reduce more
traditional punitive
practices like suspension currently adopted by many
schools to a restorative justice model that would employ techniques such as peer mediation, student justice pane...
Both
traditional and charter
schools need to change
discipline policies to ensure
practices do not lead to discrimination of students with disabilities.
This shift in
discipline policy would eliminate or reduce more
traditional punitive
practices like suspension currently adopted by many
schools to a restorative justice model that would employ techniques such as peer mediation, student justice panels, and «give back» resolutions to change student behavior.
Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney
Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in
traditional leadership
practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with
disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.
And that reducing overuse of suspensions and expulsions improves
school cultures for everyone as well as helps keeps kids often - targeted by
traditional discipline practice on the path to graduation.
Every interaction that is backed by the training and guidance of restorative
practices can transform
school climate and make an impact on the lives of students affected by
traditional, punitive
discipline policies.