The extent to which Uncle Sam should intrude
himself into school discipline practices — and the extent to which «disparate impact» should intrude itself into federal civil - rights policies — are hugely important issues.
The extent to which Uncle Sam should intrude
himself into school discipline practices — and the extent to which «disparate impact» should intrude itself into federal civil - rights policies — are hugely important issues, with or without charter schools.
Not exact matches
The introduction of mindfulness and regulation
practices, tools for building emotional intelligence practically and playfully, and positive
discipline practices designed to be integrated
into everyday life at
school and / or home.
The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter
schools that we used to call «no excuses»
schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell
into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those
schools»
discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.
She spearheads Morningside Center's restorative
practices work, and has introduced restorative circles and
discipline into dozens of New York City
schools, as well as
schools in Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Washington, DC.
Mike leads great learning with teachers and
schools across the United States and the world on topics such as choice - based differentiated learning, blending social - emotional learning
into daily academic work, supporting students with effective and respectful
discipline practices, and teacher wellness and balance.
Wrapping these ideologically charged reforms
into an expert national «consensus,» though, forces those who have concerns about these strategies to look askance at the SEL agenda — when it might instead make clear that there's room in the SEL coalition for those with diverse views on
school discipline and instructional
practice.
The other method is restorative justice that works to lower rates of suspension and expulsion and to foster positive
school climates with the goal of eliminating racially disproportionate
discipline practices and the resulting push - out of students
into the prison pipeline.
Far from being anathema to progressive values, high - quality charter
schools demonstrate how to translate these educational values
into practice by committing to college success, increasing teacher diversity, rethinking
school discipline, and supporting vulnerable populations.
Later this year, she is launching a blog entitled where she will shed light on all things educational equity in hopes to push educators
into 21st century
discipline practices; ultimately destroying the
school - to - prison pipeline.
Principal: Visible, daily SECD leadership across the
school: Integrating SECD
into school assemblies, morning announcements, faculty meetings, parent meetings,
discipline referral
practices (for students whose behavior lands them in the principal or asst. principal's office).
One of those factors is that
schools should reach deeply
into the teacher cadre and genuinely involve teachers in selecting
school staff, as well as in making decisions about budget, curriculum, instructional
practices,
discipline, and student and teacher assignments.
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.
Some of the work has been internal: Participating
schools have organized «resilience teams» to build awareness of ACEs, re-thought
discipline structures, and incorporated trauma - informed
practices into the classroom.
These guidance documents specifically concerned
school discipline practices and explained how the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States Department of Education (US ED) would be analyzing data and conducting investigations
into potentially discriminatory
discipline practices by
schools and districts.
In this way, restorative
practices offer a positive alternative to the punitive forms of
discipline that disproportionately target students of color and push them out of our classrooms and
school communities
into the «
school - to - prison pipeline.»