Educators Rethink Discipline, Learn New Moves to Dismantle School-to-Prison Pipeline [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/22/1612:00 PM

When communities want to snip the school-to-prison pipeline, how do they do it?

They revise their code of conduct, redefine the role of school police, address bias, build a positive school climate and address problematic behavior in a positive way, among other things.

School officials in the Southeast learned some of these new strategies at the Rethink Discipline Regional Convening in Atlanta last week.

The conference was sponsored by the Safe and Supportive Schools Initiative of the U.S. departments of Education and Justice.

[For more of this story, written by Stell Simonton, go to http://jjie.org/educators-reth...son-pipeline/194762/]

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