Research indicates that Response to Intervention (RTI) increases student achievement and significantly improves student academic and behavioral outcomes. RTI has demonstrated significant student gains in the elementary setting and research tends to be more heavily centered at the elementary level; however, RTI is expanding to being applied in the…

While restorative practices (RP) is hailed as one of the oldest criminal justice models in the world, the official advent of RP in education did not occur until the 1990s. Mirroring the reemergence of RP into legal systems, educators began experimenting with the application of RP in the educational setting. Today, restorative work in schools has…

Aim: This systematic literature review aims to explore the effectiveness of school-wide interventions in reducing disciplinary exclusion from mainstream secondary schools. Rationale: In England, head teachers have government support to use exclusion as a disciplinary sanction if deemed necessary (Department for Education, 2017a). Research has…

Background/Context: In thousands of classrooms throughout the United States and internationally, behavior management apps have become an integral part of schools' discipline machineries. Such apps are designed to help teachers enforce rules, especially when it comes to rewards and punishments within school token economies. To understand how these…

Response to Intervention and Instruction (RTI) is now the process for providing and monitoring reading interventions for students. In Tennessee, RTI is also used to identify students who may have a learning disability in the area of reading. For this reason, school districts are continuously evaluating the success of their RTI efforts in order to…

Response to Intervention and Instruction (RTI) is now the process for providing and monitoring reading interventions for students. In Tennessee, RTI is also used to identify students who may have a learning disability in the area of reading. For this reason, school districts are continuously evaluating the success of their RTI efforts in order to…

Response to Intervention and Instruction (RTI) is now the process for providing and monitoring reading interventions for students. In Tennessee, RTI is also used to identify students who may have a learning disability in the area of reading. For this reason, school districts are continuously evaluating the success of their RTI efforts in order to…

This article presents guiding principles governing the design, implementation, and management of a point system to promote discipline and academic rigor in a secondary classroom. Four considerations are discussed: (1) assigning appropriate point values to integral classroom behaviors and tasks; (2) determining the relationship among consequences,…

The document describes the In-School Suspension Project (ISSP), a program of the Northeast High School Complex in Macon, Georgia, which assigns students to in-school or in-house suspension rooms as an alternative to suspending juvenile delinquents/offenders out of school. The remedial strategy is reported to call for the cooperation of the county…

Describes the history, philosophy, organization, referral process, and evaluation of ten secondary school programs that offered inschool alternatives to suspension. Suggests that program effectiveness was partly determined by: (1) administrators' acceptance of the program; (2) efficiency of the referral process; (3) program linkages with other…

The final report describes the evolution and accomplishments of a project designed to identify factors associated with successful completion of education/training programs for mainstreamed mildly handicapped secondary students. Program outcomes were measured via examination of the student records, interviews, and recollections of special education…

A combined discipline counseling approach treats both symptoms and causes of discipline problems, while also providing accountability for behavior. Over the five-year period that this approach has been in operation at the Bridge Street Junior High in Wheeling (West Virginia), the number of repeat offenders has declined. (WD)

Although financially overburdened, North Brunswick Township School District in Central New Jersey has committed to an ongoing inschool suspension plan aimed at reducing the numbers of at-risk students and providing some badly needed services. The district's high school eventually adopted the successful middle school model to reduce worsening…

Functions of guidance groups, the guidance counselor, the Advocacy Program, and the Guidance Committee of the High School in the Community (HSC), New Haven, Connecticut, are described. HSC, designed to provide a choice of learning environments within the public school system, serves students dissatisfied with their previous school experience.…

Describes an experiment designed to measure the effectiveness of a schoolwide intervention strategy for changing the attitudes of classroom inhibitors--students who disrupt instruction. Concludes that schools can deal with such students without having to hire special staff. Finds also that inhibitors do not have classroom anxiety. (FL)