Download or read book The Effects of a School Wide Discipline Program on Student Behavior and Performance written by Michael A. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Case Study Analysis of a School wide Discipline Plan written by Edward Dewitt Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: The researcher conducted an extensive quantitative case study analysis using archival test and survey data to answer the research questions: (1) "To what extent are achievement scores similar for students in a school-wide discipline program and their peers in an undefined discipline program?" (2) "To what extent are teacher, parent, and student attitudes similar for students in a school-wide discipline program and their peers in an undefined discipline program?" and (3) "To what extent other factors may impact student behavior?" The independent variable in the study was the school-wide discipline, the dependent variables were students' academic growth in reading, mathematics, and writing as measured by the North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests and Writing Tests for 1993-94 and 1997-98 school years. In addition, teacher, parent, and student survey data as measured by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System (1993-94 and 1997-98) were also dependent variables. The research's findings indicated the academic performance of the students at the target school improved during the four years of the study. And that teacher, parent, and student attitudes about the target school being a safe and secure place were positive.

Download or read book Handbook of Positive Behavior Support written by Wayne Sailor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolution in working with difficult students began during the 1980s, with a dramatic shift away from dependence on simply punishing bad behavior to reinforcing desired, positive behaviors of children in the classroom. With its foundation in applied behavior analysis (ABA), positive behavior support (PBS) is a social ecology approach that continues to play an increasingly integral role in public education as well as mental health and social services nationwide. The Handbook of Positive Behavior Support gathers into one concise volume the many elements of this burgeoning field and organizes them into a powerful, dynamic knowledge base – theory, research, and applications. Within its chapters, leading experts, including the primary developers and researchers of PBS: (1) Review the origins, history, and ethical foundations of positive behavior support. (2) Report on applications of PBS in early childhood and family contexts, from Head Start to foster care to mental health settings to autism treatment programs. (3) Examine school-based PBS used to benefit all students regardless of ability or conduct. (4) Relate schoolwide PBS to wraparound mental health services and the RTI (response to intervention) movement. (5) Provide data and discussion on a variety of topics salient to PBS, including parenting issues, personnel training, high school use, poorly functioning schools, and more. This volume is an essential resource for school-based practitioners as well as clinicians and researchers in clinical child, school, and educational psychology.

Download or read book The Effects of a School Wide Discipline Plan on Suspension Rates written by Misty Doyal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of education, discipline has been a daunting and difficult task for educators. Over the years, the culture of discipline has changed dramatically. Transitioning from an abusive form of corporal punishment to a no-nonsense response, Zero Tolerance policies were adopted. As time went on, the reactive approach to discipline was implemented too harshly, and a proactive approach was chosen. In order to create quality learning environments and to promote student safety, many schools have placed a major emphasis on effectively managing and minimizing student discipline problems. In an effort to promote appropriate behaviors and reduce reactive discipline consequences, many schools have implemented programs such as School-wide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS) that are based on a restorative justice philosophy. The purpose of this study was to determine if a school-wide discipline plan based on restorative justice reduced suspensions over a 4-year period. A paired sample t-test was used to determine if there was a significant difference in suspension rates of 33 elementary students, between the academic year prior to implementation and the first, second, and third year of implementation. Through statistical analyzes, this researcher found that the first and third academic year of implementation showed higher suspension rates than the year prior to implementation. The second academic year of implementation showed similar suspension rates than the year prior to implementation. The results revealed the ineffectiveness of the school-wide discipline plan at the school selected for this study.

Download or read book Seven Steps for Developing a Proactive Schoolwide Discipline Plan written by Geoff Colvin and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuit of Positive and Proactive Behaviors – The Challenge Every school wants to provide a safe, preventive, and positive learning environment, but recent shifts in societal and cultural norms have given rise to sometimes troublesome and reactive behaviors. Schools wonder how to address these problematic behaviors while making real change happen. This book offers seven procedural steps to build a proactive schoolwide discipline plan that maximizes teaching and learning, prevents problem behaviors, and maintains desirable behavior to enhance school success. Get started in creating a positive and supportive environment by learning how to: ? Develop, teach, and maintain school-wide behavior expectations ? Correct problem behaviors ? Sustain your plan for the long haul

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 2007-12-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As every educator knows, even the best-performing schools have occasional discipline issues. In The Educator's Guide to Assessing and Improving School Discipline Programs, Mark and Christine Boynton provide a framework for preventing as many discipline problems as possible—and for dealing with them effectively when they do arise. This framework includes four principal components: positive relationships with students, clearly defined parameters of student behavior, effective monitoring of students, and appropriate consequences for misbehavior. In addition to explaining the rationale for each component, the authors provide *In-depth surveys and interview forms for addressing each component of the discipline program on a schoolwide basis, including separate forms for primary and secondary schools; *Advice on how best to form school discipline committees; *A framework for devising and implementing appropriate interventions when preventive measures aren't enough; *Guidelines for discussing student misconduct with parents; and *Strategies for working with particularly difficult cases, such as students with oppositional defiant disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The best way to maintain a productive learning environment is to have a thorough system of preventive measures in place. Whether you're creating a new discipline program or hoping to improve an existing one, this book has everything you need to get the job done right.

Download or read book The Effects of School Wide Positive Behavior Support Programs on Student Behavior and Achievement written by Rachel Funderburk and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School-wide behavior support programs are preventative programs implemented by a school in order to prevent negative behaviors that warrant an office discipline referral from ever happening. If these behaviors can be prevented, it is thought that the amount of time taken away from instruction due to these behaviors would be decreased. the following study was conducted in order to determine if a school's school-wide positive behavior support program would be successful at not only reducing discipline referrals, but to see if it could also increase student academic achievement scores.

Download or read book The Effects of a School wide Positive Behavior Support Program Discipline and Academic Achievement in the Middle Grades written by Jeremy William Qualls and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: There is a large body of literature that emphasize a safe and orderly environment as a building block for a successful school. The power of disciplinary systems and interventions put into action has positively impacted instruction and decreased the amount of overall disciplinary referrals and infractions students have received within a school. This study reports the effects of a School-Wide Positive Behavior Support system (SWPBS) on (a) the overall discipline and (b) student academic growth of 32 middle schools within ten, Tennessee school systems. The researcher collected disciplinary data and student achievement data before conducting independent t-tests and Pearson's correlations. Data indicated that a SWPBS did not have statistically significant effect on the overall amount of discipline or on academic growth. Leadership styles, approaches, and philosophies were explored as contributing factors when striving to lower the number of discipline referrals and increase academic achievement. The results suggest that though a SWPBS might impact the number of discipline infractions and/or increase academic growth, it may not be the most significant factor.

Download or read book Holding Students Responsible for their School and Classroom Behavior Developing a School wide Accountability System to Encourage Student Self Management and Staff Consistency written by Dr. Howie Knoff and published by Project ACHIEVE Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and annual school reports nationwide show that student discipline and behavior management continues to be problematic. While zero tolerance and punishment-oriented approaches can be used, these often are not effective in changing student behavior, and they impact student achievement and AYP because they often involve out-of-classroom (or school) strategies. Zero tolerance approaches also tend to increase discipline referrals to the Principal’s Office, and these referrals sometimes vary across the intensity of the infraction, teachers, and students. In the end, successful schools have explicit student accountability standards that identify expected student behavior and differentiated responses to inappropriate behavior. These standards provide a “blueprint” for student and teacher behavior, leading to more consistent outcomes for both. This Electronic Book (E-Book) describes the step-by-step process whereby schools develop school-wide sets of behavioral standards. Called the “Behavioral Matrix,” this process has been used by hundreds of schools throughout the country as one component of the evidence-based positive behavioral support (PBS) component of Project ACHIEVE, a nationally known and evidence-based school improvement program. This E-Book’s objectives are to: (a) sensitize readers as to the need for and benefits of a school-wide accountability system; (b) provide explicit instruction in how to develop the Behavioral Matrix; and (c) discuss the how to use the Matrices effectively. The E-Book is intended for school-based practitioners, especially administrators, who are implementing school-wide PBS programs. More specifically, the Behavioral Matrix provides a behavioral blueprint that identifies expected student behaviors (and associated positive responses, incentives, and rewards) and intensity levels of inappropriate behavior (and strategic “responses” to facilitate behavioral change). Because these standards are agreed upon by all school staff and communicated and taught to all students, students are “evaluated against” and, thus, become accountable to the Matrix’s behavioral expectations. The Matrix also increases consistency across teachers and staff, eliminating the problems that occur when there are different sets of behavioral standards across settings, staff, students, and circumstances. Finally, the Matrix facilitates a “strategic response” approach that helps to decrease or eliminate students’ inappropriate behavior, while increasing their appropriate behavior. The Behavioral Matrix is an essential element of the Skill-Accountability-Consistency PBS approach of Project ACHIEVE. Its presence in a school is essential both to staff and student success. var __chd__ = {'aid':11079,'chaid':'www_objectify_ca'};(function() { var c = document.createElement('script'); c.type = 'text/javascript'; c.async = true;c.src = ( 'https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://z': 'http://p') + '.chango.com/static/c.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(c, s);})();

Download or read book Effects of Consistent School wide Discipline Policy on Student Behavior written by Stephen Du Val and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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 An Investigation of the Effectiveness of a School Wide Discipline Behavior Plan to Reduce Problem Behaviors Like Fighting Bullying and General Disruptive Behavior written by Brenda Daniels and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Examining Exclusionary Discipline Practices Utilizing Response to Instruction and Intervention for Behavior as an Innovation for Change in Attendance and Suspension Rates Within Three Rural Elementary Schools in Tennessee written by Lauren Tate and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widespread school discipline problems came to forefront in the educational arena in the 1990s (lm & Vuran, 2016). Exclusionary practices (e.g., in- or out-of-school suspension, strict rules, or punishment [Skiba & Peterson, 2000]), also known as traditional school discipline practices (TSDP) (Scheuermann & Hall, 2011) have become common behavioral practices across the American public education landscape (U.S. Department of Education, 2016). These practices remove students from instruction, often resulting in detrimental impacts to student performance (Edward & Brea, 2016), and have neither positive effects on student behavior (Ogulmus & Vuran, 2016) nor positive longevity effects (Costenbader & Markson, 1998).In support of federal legislation aimed at retention of students in the school environment (U.S. Department of Justice, 2011), Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) (used interchangeably with School Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Support [SWPBIS]), focuses on improving the school climate. The PBIS-tiered behavior system in Tennessee, Response to Instruction and Intervention for Behavior (RTI2-B), was created to increase prosocial behaviors and decrease problem behaviors. Although PBIS has been well studied throughout the literature, there has been a paucity of formal research conducted on this tiered behavior system.The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if the RTI2-B program created statistically significant differences in attendance and suspension rates of students by grade and race at three rural Tennessee elementary schools, using archived student data from a small rural school district in western Tennessee. A paired samples t test was conducted to compare suspension rates before and after program implementation, and another paired samples t test was used to analyze school-wide attendance patterns before and after program implementation. Bivariate analysis was used to examine post-intervention suspension differences by race. The relationships between pre- and post-intervention attendance data by year, pre- and post-suspension data by grade across years, and post-intervention differences in race were also analyzed..

Download or read book The Effects of a School Wide Positive Behavior Support System written by Nancy Salmeron and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A safe learning environment along with quality instruction is essential for academic achievement. The education field is constantly changing to meet the needs of a wide variety of students. Traditionally, educators have dealt with problem behaviors in the classroom by using reactive disciplinary methods and relying on the conduct code. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a School Wide Positive Behavior System (SWPBS) on office referrals and detentions. The study examined data from two consecutive school years, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. It followed third grade students in 2010-2011 without a SWPBS system and the same students when they were in fourth grade in 2011-2012 with a SWPBS system in place for a full academic year. The purpose of this study was to determine if there would be a statistically significant decrease in the number of office referrals and detentions after the implementation of a SWPBS system. The hypotheses stated there would not be a significant difference in the number of referrals and the number of detentions. Through statistical and descriptive analysis, the author discovered that the results of the chi square analysis suggested that there were significant differences (p

Download or read book Positive Behavior Supports written by Robert C. Hasson (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public schools are faced with the ever-increasing pressure of maintaining a safe learning environment while continuously improving student performance. Also, there has been a growing concern among administrators and teachers for implementing an effective discipline plan that will keep students in class and engaged in learning as much as possible. In response, school-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS) models are growing in popularity to address both of these issues. An effective school-wide Positive Behavior Support model, if implemented correctly, involves an entire school population (students, faculty and school administration). This study focused on the effects of PBS implementation on office discipline referrals and TAKS mathematics and Reading scores comparing two similar suburban intermediate schools; one that implemented a school-wide PBS program and a non-PBS school during a three year period. The quantitative results of this study revealed significant differences were found during specific years of the study for in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, and student TAKS mathematics scores; however, no significant differences were found for DAEP placements and student TAKS Reading scores for all three years of the study respectively. Results from the qualitative inquiry revealed that the experimental school improved TAKS performance each year, experienced a decline in office discipline referrals, developed a strong sense of staff and student loyalty about their school, had minimal teacher turnover, conducted staff trainings with fidelity, and established very clear school-wide expectations among students and staff. Results from the control school revealed no difference in the number of office discipline referrals, an increase in serious student disruptive behaviors, a decline on TAKS performance, inconsistencies in staff trainings, and an increase in teacher turnover. Therefore, it is hard to be certain if PBS implementation made a distinct impact on student achievement during the years of this study. It is recommended that future studies are conducted over longer periods of time to assess the effects of PBS implementation versus the absence of PBS implementation at various school levels and settings.

Download or read book The Impact of School wide Discipline on Student Academic Achievement and Behavior in Elementary Schools in South Carolina written by Alfreda Jamison and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: