We must start by addressing the trauma impacting many of our neighborhoods, the social - emotional health of our students, and the overly punitive
discipline practices in our schools.
Ultimately, your quest to find the
best discipline practices should be about finding the discipline techniques that will work best for your family.
Creating and utilizing
equitable discipline practices which allow each student access to quality classroom instruction and educational opportunities is critical.
Another seems to be a shift away from
harsh discipline practices that result in disproportionately high suspension rates for black and Latino students.
As teachers, we are encouraged by the steps being taken by our district, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS), which have led to a reduction in the use of
exclusionary discipline practices since the 2008 - 09 school year.
FAMILIES FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS FIRST MADE an issue of school safety in February, shortly after the New York Times reported on controversial
student discipline practices at Success Academy, the city's largest charter network, which maintains close ties to FES.
FAMILIES FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS FIRST MADE an issue of school safety in February, shortly after the New York Times reported on controversial student
discipline practices at Success Academy, the city's largest charter network, which maintains close ties to FES.
They argue that exclusionary
discipline practices such as suspension and expulsion can have detrimental impacts, and they discuss the use of restorative justice to address bullying Other topics include Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supporters (PBIS) and social and emotional learning.
He added he wants to continue «making sure that we have ways of establishing restorative practices and end
negative discipline practices at all schools» and welcomes «an honest and open conversation» about the charter school issues.
And while must begin by standing up to the multibillion dollar testing industry by opting out, we must also create a vision for an uprising that opts in to antiracist curriculum, ethnic studies programs, wrap around services to support the academic and social and emotional development of students, programs to recruit teachers of color, restorative justice programs that eliminate zero
tolerance discipline practices, and beyond.
Washington Post, 7/24/12 — The Maryland Board of Education gives unanimous preliminary approval to a statewide «common - sense change» to teach students positive behavior, keep them in school and eliminate
extreme discipline practices.
Trombonist Alan Ferber reached for a deeper link: «Baseball players and jazz musicians both strive for a perfect balance
between disciplined practice and spontaneity.»
Offered in English and Spanish, classes focus on play and positive involvement with children, praise and rewards, effective limit setting and
non-violent discipline practices.
Once again, I thoroughly enjoyed talking with Larry Jacobs on Education Talk Radio, this time about effective and
respectful discipline practices in schools.
Youth and community organizing efforts have been winning changes to harsh and discriminatory school
discipline practices across the country.
The author points out that disproportionate suspension and expulsion rates are more often the result of
inequitable discipline practices than differences in behavior between students of color and their white peers.
NEW YORK CITY The fall issue of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Voices in Urban Education is chock - full of powerful essays reflecting on disparities in school discipline and highlighting efforts to
reform discipline practices in cities like Denver, Nashville, Oakland and Chicago.
In this dissertation, I
examine discipline practices during the transitional years of pre-K and Kindergarten, when children's school experiences are known to have lasting impacts on later achievement, development, and school success.
Mothers completed semi-structured interviews about families» everyday routines and general beliefs on childrearing including
current discipline practices, interpretations of children's behaviors, and goals for infants» futures.
Specifically, a lack of a warm positive relationship with parents; insecure attachment; harsh, inflexible or
inconsistent discipline practices; inadequate supervision of and involvement with children; marital conflict and breakdown; and parental psychopathology (particularly maternal depression) increase the risk that children will develop major behavioural and emotional problems, including depression and conduct problems.