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Online resource offers help with discipline [EdSource.org]

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Educators who want to implement more positive disciplinary practices can now access an online national repository of research-based alternatives to suspension and expulsion.

The National Clearinghouse on Supportive School Discipline (NCSSD) site is divided into four topic areas that provide strategies and tools:

 

  • Conditions for Learning
  • The Pipeline to Prison
  • Positive Approaches to School Discipline
  • Discipline Disparities


California has been in the forefront in the move toward more positive disciplinary approaches. Both Los Angeles Unified and San Francisco Unified, for example, have eliminated “willful defiance” as a reason to suspend or expel students. A new law, authored by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, makes it illegal for school districts to expel any student or suspend any K-3 student for willful defiance. However, teachers can still send a student to the principal’s office for defiance.

 

[For more of this story, written by Susan Fey, go to http://edsource.org/2014/onlin...e/68181#.VDR3LvldW5V]

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This is a positive policy step in the right direction. What educators (teachers, admins, support staff, et al) will need are ways of understanding how they (as adults) actually contribute to the manufacturing of what has so conveniently been labeled as "misbehavior." When students can't read, we teach reading. When students struggle at math, we teach math. When students struggle with attention/behavior/self-regulation -we __________fill in the blank_______ .  This is THE pedagogical elephant in the schoolhouse. I am a "hope monger" and optimist that as the research-base continues to be more valued across education, and both pre- and in-service teachers receive sufficient supports to make these shifts - that such policy steps will be parallel to pedagogical steps taken in the schoolhouse. This is where a number of efforts (both private and public) are focusing their energies/resources because it is not an EITHER policy OR pedagogical effort, but a BOTH/AND scenario.

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