Sentences with phrase «reducing school discipline»

Mission Elementary School in Antioch adopted PBIS, or Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, to reduce school discipline and improve school climate for all students.

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On our web site you will see the story of the Whitefish Montana schools that reduced discipline problems by 75 % by making some small changes, most notably by improving the food.

While the program continues to generate a lot controversy in more affluent schools (lost class time, sanitation issues and concerns about the nutritional quality of the food), our Food Services department has said that in poorer schools the program has been enthusiastically welcomed by principals who are seeing increased attendance, reduced tardiness and fewer discipline problems.

This interactive workshop is designed for teachers, counselors, school staff and administrators who want an effective discipline approach that integrates social and emotional learning while reducing challenging student behaviors.

«Changes made are minor and won't provide systemic change,» said Sarah Landes, a member of the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a collection of teachers, students and youth organizations working to reduce suspension and mandate alternative discipline methods.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

Schools The school - based anti-bullying programs that have been most successful at reducing bullying and victimization are those that last longer, have more intensive interventions and many components, such as school rules, discipline, playground supervision and parent informational and training meetings.

By relying on concise rules and frequent rewards, principals say the PBIS approach to school - wide behavior management drastically reduces discipline problems and improves academic performance among all students.

That efforts to «reform» school discipline by reducing punishment can make schools less safe.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

In particular, schools will need to adopt alternative practices, rather than eliminating or dramatically reducing the use of exclusionary discipline in a policy void.

Finally, the letter contains a significant appendix of «illustrative» specific suggestions for policy and practice that could serve to help states and districts avoid violations, urging schools to reduce the use of suspension and other forms of exclusionary discipline, focusing instead on positive approaches.

«Schools have told me consistently that they see a dramatic decrease in peer - to - peer aggressive behavior within three to five weeks of implementing a school - wide behavior rubric, as young people get the message that discipline interventions for aggression will be inevitable, fair, and escalating for all students and in all areas of the school,» says Stan Davis, author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying.

It means those of us (myself included) who want to reduce discipline disparities should be focusing more of our efforts on addressing student misbehavior, via better teaching, better counseling, stronger attention to character, more engaging environments, and stronger relationships among kids and between kids and adults in a school.

Changes to district policies guiding school discipline and student conduct constitute a direct approach to reducing exclusionary discipline.

Those sentiments are echoed by leaders in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), who've spent the past six years rolling out an SEL initiative in an effort to reshape school discipline, reduce student stress, and take a more holistic approach to academics.

Fourth, even as our quality improves, our schools have made remarkable progress reducing exclusionary discipline.

A majority of educators responding to an Education Week Research Center poll said social - emotional learning is an effective way to improve student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and improve school climate.

After only 10 months with Kickboard, Billingsville Elementary reduced the number of discipline referrals, improved teacher collaboration, increased parent involvement, and improved the school culture.

The PBIS programs have reduced rates of bullying, improved discipline and academic performance and created a better and healthier climate in the schools utilizing them, Bradshaw said.

Some cities are addressing inequity, by finding ways to give more students access to challenging curriculum, reducing the use of disproportionate exclusionary discipline, and improving access to the best schools.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

The AFT letter concludes: «To reduce racial disparities in the application of school discipline, educators must receive the appropriate training and supports, including professional development and a school climate that is safe and welcoming for all.

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...

Topics include the new discipline guidelines for public districts approved by the Maryland State Board of Education to reduce school suspensions and end discrimination, and piloting of restorative justice by Grand Rapids Public Schools in Michigan.

that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

Councilmember Grosso encouraged the audience to attend an upcoming roundtable on February 2nd to review the findings of this report and provide recommendations on how DCPS and public charter schools can continue to reduce instances of school discipline in both sectors.

The op - ed decried what it called «relaxed» discipline that has resulted from the federal guidance and claimed that schools are causing harm to «good» kids when suspensions and expulsions are reduced.

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.

The innovation charter schools allow in curriculum, structure, discipline, instruction, and operation could well help to reduce the frightful 30 percent average dropout rate in our public high schools, which is more than 50 percent for African - American, Latino and Native American children.

... We see that in two years of this work, our math team led the highest gains in the city, teacher absenteeism dramatically reduced... student discipline fell in an astronomical change, because the culture of the school became one of aspiration.»

This guidance helps teachers and schools reduce exclusionary discipline like suspensions.

The 7 Habits for Teens training is a means for educators and parents to build teenagers self - confidence and interpersonal skills, improve student's emotional wellbeing, boost achievement as well as raise life aspirations, and reduce school - wide discipline problems.

Reform of school discipline to reduce exclusionary practices and foster positive social, behavioral, emotional, and academic success for students;

It is increasingly being implemented in California schools as the state has passed laws and school districts have adopted policies aimed at reducing suspensions and other forms of punitive discipline.

If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education's guidance on reducing the overuse of harsh school discipline, simply look at the traditional districts represented in Congress by Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who this morning, complained that the four - year - old Dear Colleague letter made school leaders «afraid» to discipline children in their care.

It calls for reducing the rate kids are disciplined, removed from school, incarcerated, and entered into the criminal justice cycle.

Location: Middle Tennessee / Nashville Priority: Appropriate and Equitable Resources and Supports Topic: Teacher and student voice on reducing discipline disparities Summary: The funding for the Oasis Center, MNPS, and PASSAGE builds on the previous grant cycle of work that focused on educating current MNPS teachers on cultural competency, and implicit bias in order to promote the equitable treatment of students in MNPS schools.

«Pivot» has become an overused word but there is no better verb to describe what schools must do to reduce racial disparities in school discipline.

San Diego Unified School District's superintendent presented increased and expanded efforts to reduce the achievement gap by focusing on early childhood education, English learners, and school disciSchool District's superintendent presented increased and expanded efforts to reduce the achievement gap by focusing on early childhood education, English learners, and school discischool discipline.

In Los Angeles, educators advocated for ways to implement the 2013 School Climate Bill of Rights, with the goal of reducing racial discipline disparities across LAUSD in The Equity Movement.

The principals and educators of these schools have been intentional in adopting discipline practices that reduce the loss of instructional time due to disciplinary reasons and reducing disparities based on race, sex, and other demographic characteristics.

To create What We Know about Reducing Disproportionate Suspension Rates for Students of Color, a literature summary for the Oregon Leadership Network Research Alliance, we examined over 8,900 articles in search of evidence of school and classroom practices that can help reduce disproportionality in discipline referrals and suspensions for middle and high school students.

E4E teachers came to D.C. on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to share with Secretary DeVos that the Federal Department of Education has a critical role to play in protecting the civil rights of all students and as a result must continue to highlight the disparities that exist in school discipline, investigate districts where those disparities may be caused by bias, and support the implementation of strategies to reduce punitive discipline.

The program puts an emphasis on reducing significant disproportionality, meaning that schools do not discipline students of a particular race or ethnicity at a higher rate than other students.

The Topic: We are over half way through the school year and many schools began the year with new discipline policies aimed at reducing suspension and expulsion rates.

Whereas, the Hawkins / Jones platform of a Green New Deal calls for equitable funding for all of our schools, reduced class sizes across the state, support for programs that promote desegregation in our schools, an end to zero - tolerance discipline policies driving the school - to - prison pipeline, and allowing schools to develop methods of assessment organic to the learning process, and

There is a clear recognition in finding after finding in the report that more attention and resources are needed to help schools reduce disparities in discipline, not less.

PBIS is the most widely used positive school discipline approach in California and has been shown to reduce suspensions and expulsions and help create more engaging learning environments.

Petrilli argued that it required schools to reduce suspensions without providing any supports, but Jimenez and Kristen Harper of Child Trends argued that it did not require any changes without supports, but instead called attention to a discipline crisis where students of color were punished more regularly and harshly than their white peers.