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How’s Discipline at Your School? Don’t Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

April 5, 2019Jay KustkaNo Commentsdiscipline, Education Week, edweek, Learning from Student Voice, school discipline, Sonya Heisters, staff voice, teacher turnover

By Sonya Heisters, the director of partnerships for YouthTruth As a student-teacher, and like most early-career educators, I struggled with classroom management and discipline. The beautifully articulated theories of positive behavior intervention and support that I was learning through my credentialing program seemed at odds with the realities of time and resource constraints in the…

New Report Compares Student, Family, and Staff Experiences with Discipline Finds Student Perception Matters

April 2, 2019Jay KustkaNo Commentsdiscipline, Learning from Student Voice, school discipline

When designed and implemented well, discipline policies and practices can help a school run smoothly, support teachers, and set up equitable conditions of learning. When managed poorly, however, school discipline policies and practices can have serious long and short term effects on students’ lives both inside and outside the classroom, including contributing to the school…

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How’s Discipline at Your School? Don’t Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

New Report Compares Student, Family, and Staff Experiences with Discipline Finds Student Perception Matters