The education newsletter Chalkbeat has been taking a look at
the ways school discipline policies play out in classrooms, and spent time asking students and teachers about moments that changed them — times they just lost their cool, or saw others lose theirs.
Not exact matches
She / he carries the initiative to ensure that decisions and
policies of the Conference are developed and executed in a timely
way in personnel matters, pedagogical matters including program development, student well - being and
discipline, and family relations with the
school.
In his campaign literature, Lasher says, «We have seen a disturbing rise in
school discipline policies that rely on fear and shame; are used to push students out of
schools, either directly or indirectly; are too often implemented in racially disparate
ways; and which can be the starting point for the
school - to - prison pipeline that has contributed to the mass incarceration of young men of color.»
We add to this discussion our findings that the legal understandings underlying
school discipline policies depart in significant
ways from the case law on which they are assumed to be based, according expansive rights and protections to students, even as the courts have tended to side with
school authorities.
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.
Cami Anderson, former superintendent of Newark public
schools, talked about the
way that current
discipline policies negatively impact students of color, referencing research that shows that adults view black girls as less innocent than their white counterparts as early as kindergarten.
Zimmer credits Deasy with leading the
way on restructuring
school discipline policies.
It's not always easy to tell whether the new approaches help overall student performance, because
schools interested in this type of experimentation are often innovating in other
ways as well: changing grading
policies, moving to more project - based learning models and rethinking
discipline strategies.
As such, all the elementary
schools in his district have the same curriculum driven by the same comprehensive
school reform model; the same
school environment and
discipline policy; and the same
way of using Title I and other federal budget dollars.
Like most large
school districts in the United States,
discipline policies in Broward reflected the idea that the best
way to maintain an orderly classroom is to get rid of disruptive students, an approach known as zero tolerance.
He also touched on the
ways that the
policies that have been informing
school discipline, such as suspending children for truancy, are nonsensical, and that the
policies are often more about slogans that poll well (such as zero tolerance) than what makes the most sense for our
schools.