Educators don’t always give students a voice when they make a mistake. Punitive systems require blaming one party and punishing them to address the behavior.
However, retaliatory consequences create a temporary bandage for an issue. They do very little to unveil the full story and bring all...
Suspensions, detentions, and referrals to the office all have one common flaw: they are exclusionary processes.
Asher threw pencil + Finlee threw pencil = two referrals to the office. They are both removed from the class and “taught” a lesson through the consequence. Throwing pencils...
According to the Civil Rights Data Collection, of the 49 million students enrolled in public schools in 2011–2012, 3.5 million were suspended in-school, 3.45 million were suspended out-of-school, and 130,000 were expelled.
Another concerning fact from this source is that black students are...
Traditional discipline calls for rules and consequences, detentions, suspensions, and other carrots and sticks. Most teachers and school leaders know this ancient system does not work. What’s the answer to poor student behavior and school and class disruption? It may be as simple as...
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