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Allday, R. Allan; Burt, Jonathan L.; Haggard, Kaitlin N. – Preventing School Failure, 2021
Research has suggested that students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds (e.g., students of color and those with disabilities) have received higher rates of exclusionary discipline (e.g., suspensions and expulsions) than their peers who are White and without disability. Various interventions have been implemented to address this…
Descriptors: Discipline, Disproportionate Representation, Student Behavior, Educational Change
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Moreno, Gerardo – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2021
Over the past several decades, public schools across the United States have experienced an increasingly visible diversity rift between student enrollment and teaching faculty. The number of students from diverse backgrounds continues to grow while educator ranks continue to become more homogeneous. This diversity rift presents several challenges…
Descriptors: Discipline, Cultural Relevance, Suspension, Student Diversity
Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, 2022
The only consistency with children, with and without disabilities, is that they are inconsistent. Much of a child's behavior is adult controlled by their reaction, methods used, and consistency in support and discipline. When adults change the way they respond to the child's behaviors, the child gradually will learn to modify their behavior.…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Disabilities
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Beaudoin, Wilfred; Moore, Adam – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
In the past several years, there has been an important movement to reduce the utilization of restraint for individuals with developmental disabilities. Legislatures, local and national, are taking on the task of shaping the way that our culture supports people who, up until now, have been often treated in a punitive manner rather than truly…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, At Risk Persons, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Change Strategies
Skiba, Russell J.; Losen, Daniel J. – American Educator, 2016
In this article, the authors trace the course of school discipline over the past 20 years and examine the status of school discipline reform today. They begin with an examination of zero-tolerance, suspension, and expulsion policies, as well as their assumptions and effects. They discuss alternatives that have been proposed and the guidance that…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Educational History
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Northington Purdie, Cynthia – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
The practice of paddling students for misbehavior remains legal in 19 states. The practice was quite prevalent in the mid-to late-20th century and was implemented in order to instill fear in students, so that they would behave properly. To public school students, this was as normal as recess. To an observer with no former frame of reference,…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Discipline, Educational Practices, Classroom Techniques
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Ugwuegbulam, Charles N.; Ibrahim, Haj. Naheed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Primary and secondary school in Nigeria encourage punctuality to school yet a good number of the learners came late to school. This is especially true in the case of day students. Learners who come late to school are usually punished in one way or the other yet the lateness to school phenomenon still persist. Lateness to school behaviour affects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Discipline, Discipline Problems
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Bradley, Maceo – Teachers College Record, 2015
This chapter tells the story of how and why one student who received a ticket for being late to school joined the fight against policies that criminalize students in Los Angeles Unified School District.
Descriptors: Advocacy, Activism, Discipline Policy, Discipline
Anderson-Loy, Lynne – American Educator, 2016
Lynne Anderson-Loy teaches science to sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders in the Contemporary School and the Regional Safe School at Woodruff Career and Technical Center in the Peoria (Illinois) Public Schools District. In this article, she describes her experience of learning how to manage student behavior in various schools throughout her…
Descriptors: Instruction, Student Behavior, Teaching Experience, Secondary School Teachers
Chin, Maisie – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
CADRE, an organization led by Maisie Chin, is a Human Right to Education Campaign. Between 2005 and 2013, CADRE played a lead role in using grassroots organizing and leadership development to create a seismic shift in public policy, debate, and narrative around school discipline, racial disparities, parents' roles, school climate, and closing the…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Organizations, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
Martin, Christopher – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
This article discusses how Christopher Martin, a middle school science teacher in Denver, Colorado, finds success using restorative approaches that focus on empathy rather than punitive zero-tolerance school discipline policies. Upon reflection of his first school's discipline policy, he realized that the school operated out of fear and compliance…
Descriptors: Empathy, Suspension, Discipline, Discipline Policy
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Mullet, Judy Hostetler – Children & Schools, 2014
As commonly understood, school discipline seeks to stop misbehavior, teach prosocial behavior, and motivate healthier decision making in the misbehaving student. In practice, the means to these ends often take a punitive path that fosters a self-protective posture, a sense of powerlessness, and a negative attitude that can contribute to an ongoing…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Juvenile Justice
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Ryan, Thomas G.; Ruddy, Sean – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
Our purpose herein is to demonstrate how restorative justice continues to unfold globally and we explain how the use of a restorative justice ideology and intervention leads to a common alternative, not only in criminal justice institutions, but also within social agencies, such as elementary schools, and the related social support systems. We…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Discipline Policy, Discipline, Student Behavior
Gardner, Trevor – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
A California high school develops a Student Justice Panel to hear student concerns about violations of the student code, providing students with a way to not just have a voice but to effect change in how students are disciplined. Restorative justice gives students a feeling of fairness and responsibility for appropriate behavior. Restorative…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Discipline, Student Empowerment, High School Students
Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, 2015
Positive or negative behaviors a child displays while exploring, learning, and communicating express how they are adapting to their environment. There are as many reasons for a behavior as there are children. Some children react inappropriately because they have never been given direction or taught how to handle various situations. It is important…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Disabilities
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