Download or read book Improving School Discipline Data Collection and Reporting written by Andy Whisman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A statewide analysis was conducted on school disciplinary incidents reported during the 2012-2013 school year--the first full year under the revised Policy 4373. Findings from the analysis are provided to help inform districts and schools about what supports they may need to improve school climate, including more positive approaches to student discipline. Method of study: Using 2012-2013 data entered into the West Virginia Education Information System (WVEIS), we conducted two sets of analyses--one focused on discipline referrals (DRs) to examine the number, seriousness, and types of behaviors and interventions used by schools; and a second addressed questions about student subgroup representation in the discipline data. Findings: The analysis used 220,656 discipline referrals entered into WVEIS, which represents a rate of 786 discipline referrals per 1,000 students. Some schools submitted no DRs, suggesting underreporting. About 45% of DRs were made for students in high school, 39% for middle school, and 17% for elementary school. About two thirds of DRs were for Level 1 minimally disruptive behaviors, followed by 27% for Level 2 and 10% for Level 3 behaviors. Referrals for the most severe and illegal behaviors (Level 4) were rare and accounted for less than 1% of all DRs. In response to these DRs, about two thirds of interventions/consequences used by schools were detentions, in-school suspensions, or out-of-school suspensions (26%, 19%, and 17%, respectively). About a third of interventions/consequences for Level 1 minimally disruptive behaviors were some type of detention. However, nearly 27% were in-school suspensions or out-of-school suspensions. There also were 12 expulsions-related actions associated with Level 1 behaviors, which may be disproportionate to the behaviors involved. Nearly 80% of students were absent from the discipline data (no DRs were made for them), while many other students were referred for only a single offense. Students with multiple referrals, however, accounted for 88% of all DRs. Many students were reported for five or more offenses; the highest number for a single student was 71. Black students and students with disabilities were present in the discipline data at rates higher than their representation in the overall student population. Risk ratio calculations indicate Black students to be about two or more times more likely to experience suspensions--although this disparity is lower in West Virginia than for the majority of other states. Students with disabilities also are at higher risk. Limitations of study. 2012--2013 was a transition year as West Virginia deployed a new discipline management system. It is not clear what effect this transition had on the completeness or accuracy of data summarized in this report. Recommendations. Four recommendations are offered: (a) encourage diligence in accurately reporting discipline behaviors as required by Policy 4373; (b) provide training/technical assistance specific to positive discipline approaches and alternatives to suspension; (c) build district and school staff capacity to provide appropriate behavioral interventions in the context of the Support for Personalized Learning, three-tiered framework; and (d) further investigate subgroup disparities and deliver professional development and technical assistance specific to minimizing them. Appendices include: (1) Inappropriate Behaviors by Level of Severity; (2) Inappropriate Behaviors by Category of Behavior; (3) Interventions and Consequences; (4) Discipline Referrals by Level of Severity and Category of Intervention or Consequence; (5) Discipline Referrals by Type of Behavior and Category of Intervention or Consequence; (6) In-School and Out-of-School Suspensions by Behavior; (7) Discipline Referrals by Student Race/Ethnicity; and (8) Stakeholder Input.
Download or read book Improving School Discipline Data Collection and Reporting written by Andy Whisman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE), recognizing the need for safe and supportive schools, revised its policy regarding student conduct. The result, "Expected Behaviors in Safe and Supportive Schools" (WVBE Policy 4373, effective July 1, 2012), put forth the behaviors expected of West Virginia's students; the rights and responsibilities of students; a framework for policy implementation at the state, district, and school levels; and descriptions of and corresponding potential interventions and consequences for inappropriate behaviors. The policy additionally sought to bring consistency to the recording of discipline incidents around the state. To monitor statewide progress toward improving conditions for learning and the effectiveness of school climate improvement efforts, the WVDE was charged with drawing upon data collected through the "discipline management system" (DMS) to annually report the rates of occurrence of inappropriate behaviors defined in the revised policy. This report, which covers the 2013-2014 school year, represents the second of these annual reports. Appended are the following: (1) Inappropriate Behaviors by Level of Severity; (2) Inappropriate Behaviors by Category of Behavior; (3) Interventions and Consequences; (4) Discipline Referrals by Level of Severity and Category of Intervention or Consequence; (5) Discipline Referrals by Type of Behavior and Category of Intervention or Consequence; (6) In-School and Out-of-School Suspensions by Behavior; and (7) Discipline Referrals by Student Race/Ethnicity.
Download or read book Closing the School Discipline Gap written by Daniel J. Losen and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes. Part I explores how suspensions flow along the lines of race, gender, and disability status. Part II examines potential remedies that show great promise, including a district-wide approach in Cleveland, Ohio, aimed at social and emotional learning strategies. Closing the School Discipline Gap is a call for action that focuses on an area in which public schools can and should make powerful improvements, in a relatively short period of time. Contributors include Robert Balfanz, Jamilia Blake, Dewey Cornell, Jeremy D. Finn, Thalia González, Anne Gregory, Daniel J. Losen, David M. Osher, Russell J. Skiba, Ivory A. Toldson “Closing the School Discipline Gap can make an enormous difference in reducing disciplinary exclusions across the country. This book not only exposes unsound practices and their disparate impact on the historically disadvantaged, but provides educators, policymakers, and community advocates with an array of remedies that are proven effective or hold great promise. Educators, communities, and students alike can benefit from the promising interventions and well-grounded recommendations.” —Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University “For over four decades school discipline policies and practices in too many places have pushed children out of school, especially children of color. Closing the School Discipline Gap shows that adults have the power—and responsibility—to change school climates to better meet the needs of children. This volume is a call to action for policymakers, educators, parents, and students.” —Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund
Download or read book The School Discipline Consensus Report written by CSG Justice Center and published by CSG Justice Center. This book was released on with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The School Discipline Consensus Report presents a comprehensive set of consensus-based and field-driven recommendations to improve conditions for learning for all students and educators, better support students with behavioral needs, improve police-schools partnerships, and keep students out of the juvenile justice system for minor offenses. More than 100 advisors representing policymakers, school administrators, teachers, behavioral health professionals, police, court leaders, probation officials, juvenile correctional leaders, parents, and youth from across the country helped develop more than two dozen policies and 60 recommendations to keep more students in productive classrooms and out of court rooms.
Download or read book Using Data in Schools to Inform Leadership and Decision Making written by Alex J. Bowers and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our fifth book in the International Research on School Leadership series focuses on the use of data in schools and districts as useful information for leadership and decision making. Schools are awash in data and information, from test scores, to grades, to discipline reports, and attendance as just a short list of student information sources, while additional streams of data feed into schools and districts from teachers and parents as well as local, regional and national policy levels. To deal with the data, schools have implemented a variety of data practices, from data rooms, to data days, data walks, and data protocols. However, despite the flood of data, successful school leaders are leveraging an analysis of their school’s data as a means to bring about continuous improvement in an effort to improve instruction for all students. Nevertheless, some drown, some swim, while others find success. Our goal in this book volume is to bring together a set of chapters by authors who examine successful data use as it relates to leadership and school improvement. In particular, the chapters in this volume consider important issues in this domain, including: • How educational leaders use data to inform their practice. • What types of data and data analysis are most useful to successful school leaders. • To what extent are data driven and data informed practices helping school leaders positively change instructional practice? • In what ways does good data collection and analysis feed into successful continuous improvement and holistic systems thinking? • How have school leadership practices changed as more data and data analysis techniques have become available? • What are the major obstacles facing school leaders when using data for decision making and how do they overcome them?
Download or read book State Legislative Recommendations to Promote Fair and Effective School Discipline NEPC Discipline Resource Sheet written by Daniel J. Losen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents a summary of the larger report "Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice." State legislation is an important lever for improving the equity of student discipline policies. However, states vary tremendously, and only some provide accurate public reports on school discipline, support effective programs like Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), or ensure teachers are well trained in classroom and behavior management. This paper presents three recommendations for improving state legislation: (1) Strengthen support and training for teachers to improve classroom and behavior management; (2) Improve annual collection and reporting of discipline data; and (3) Align discipline policy with academic achievement goals by helping schools reduce high suspension rates. [For the main report, see "Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice" (ED524711).].
Download or read book Best Practices for Data Collectors and Data Providers written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ending the School to prison Pipeline written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety in Numbers written by National Forum on Education Statistics (U.S.). Crime, Violence, and Discipline Reporting Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Learning Environments written by Richard Arum and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Learning Environments provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates. In this volume, leading international social science researchers explore nine national case studies to identify the institutional determinants of variation in school discipline, the possible links between school environments and student achievement, as well as the implications of these findings for understanding social inequality. As the book demonstrates, a better understanding of school discipline is essential to the formation of effective educational policies. Ultimately, to improve a school's ability to contribute to youth socialization and student internalization of positive social norms and values, any changes in school discipline must not only be responsive to behavior problems but should also work to enhance the legitimacy and moral authority of school actors.
Download or read book The Data Guidebook for Teachers and Leaders written by Eileen Depka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for new ways to use data in the decision-making process? Are you seeking tools that provide better flow-through from data to improved student achievement? Have you ever considered including students in the data-to-improvement cycle? Schools recognize that data is an essential decision-making tool, but it requires teamwork and reflection to reap the maximum benefits. This guidebook offers practical collection and analysis methods and templates as well as tips for building trust and working together.
Download or read book Report written by Executive Office of the President and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools should be safe, nurturing, and welcoming environments for all students. Frequently, exclusionary school discipline practices, which remove students from the classroom--even for minor infractions of school rules--through suspension or expulsion, prevent students from participating fully in their education. Suspensions, expulsions, and other exclusionary discipline policies and practices can be detrimental to school climate, and can also negatively impact student learning and success as well as social and emotional development. Data from the Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) shows that there are disparities along racial, sex, disability, and other student characteristics in the administration of student discipline (suspension or expulsion). The Obama Administration has consistently focused on helping schools proactively redesign school discipline policies and practices to more effectively foster safe and supportive school climates and has marshalled the resources and expertise of several cabinet agencies to combat the inappropriate use of exclusionary school discipline practices from early childhood settings through high school. President Obama and his administration were committed to rethinking exclusionary discipline practices because schools that are safe, nurturing, and engaging environments are where students will succeed socio-emotionally and academically. Rethinking discipline has also been a cornerstone of the work of President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative, the White House Council on Women and Girls, as well as an Agency priority within the Departments of Education, Justice, and Health & Human Services. The work of the past several years highlighted in this report should serve to empower advocacy groups, communities, parents, and educators to shine a bright light on inequities and disparities with respect to school discipline and work within communities to address them. This information also highlights actionable steps states and districts can take to decrease use of exclusionary discipline practices in order to make schools better places to promote student learning and growth. This document celebrates the progress made thus far while recognizing that yet far more must be done to improve school discipline practices from preschool through high school. Doing so will require capable and insightful leadership from individuals at every level of school governance. The children deserve nothing less.
Download or read book A scholarly inquiry into disciplinary practices in educational institutions written by Connie B. Zulu and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of chapters based on original research dealing with issues of discipline and disciplinary practices in educational institutions. The aim of the book is to provide a scholarly and scientific perspective on the current state of discipline and disciplinary practices in schools and tertiary education settings. The issue of discipline is investigated from diverse paradigmatic and methodological perspectives, presenting empirical as well as also philosophical research. The empirical perspective includes quantitative (positivistic), qualitative (interpretive) and mixed methods (pragmatic), designs and worldviews. This book offers a ground-breaking contribution to the field of learner and student discipline, with insights into disciplinary practices and issues in educational institutions not hitherto researched, such as Technical Vocational Education and Training colleges and universities.
Download or read book The Educator s Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs written by Mark Boynton and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2007 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending research with teacher-developed strategies, this book helps teachers better understand students' cultural differences and turn educational challenges into educational opportunities.
Download or read book Good Discipline written by Daniel J. Losen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Educator s Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs written by Mark Boynton and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending research with teacher-developed strategies, this book helps teachers better understand students' cultural differences and turn educational challenges into educational opportunities.
Download or read book School Discipline Classroom Management and Student Self Management written by Howard M. Knoff and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated, comprehensive approach to positive behavioral supports and interventions How do you help students who "act out" or "shut down" due to academic frustration or whose social and emotional issues keep them from achieving success in school? Based on Project ACHIEVE, a nationally recognized model of school effectiveness and continuous improvement program, this book shows you how. Educators will find a pragmatic, easy-to-follow blueprint for Positive Behavior Support Systems (PBSS) implementation that integrates academics, instruction, and achievement with discipline, behavior management, and student self-management. Award-winning author Howard M. Knoff provides guidance on: Implementing a schoolwide discipline and safe schools program Teaching students interpersonal, social problem solving, conflict prevention and resolution, and emotional coping skills Guiding professional development, staff and student buy-in, and evaluation Strengthening parent and community outreach and involvement Included are classroom charts and posters, implementation steps and worksheets, and action plans and checklists. Case studies from more than 20 years of research and practice demonstrate how the book′s strategies create positive climates, pro-social interactions, and effective management approaches from classroom to common school areas. The results? The students involved are more cooperative and academically engaged; have fewer disciplinary problems; are more socially successful; and earn higher grades and test scores.
