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A Balanced Approach: Advocating For Middle School Improvement That Levels The Playing Field, Derrik Craun
A Balanced Approach: Advocating For Middle School Improvement That Levels The Playing Field, Derrik Craun
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With a large disparity in the rate of suspension incidents received between African American and White students, it is evident why there still exists a gap in academic achievement. Too often we rely heavily on out of school suspensions as a consequence for student misbehavior. This approach leads to students falling behind academically and feeling less connected to their learning environment. My study takes a close look into establishing district policy to help each middle school offer a balanced approach to addressing student discipline in order to improve behavior and increase the amount of instructional time that African American middle …
The Relationship Between School-Wide Positive Behavior Support Implementation And Office Discipline Referrals At The Secondary Level, Isaac William Sooter
The Relationship Between School-Wide Positive Behavior Support Implementation And Office Discipline Referrals At The Secondary Level, Isaac William Sooter
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School Wide Positive Behavior Support (SW-PBS) is a current framework for schools to model their discipline strategies. SW-PBS has a framework built on identifying behaviors and predictors of their occurrence, routines to correct and prevent these problems, and implementation of these routines school wide to collect information to evaluate these strategies. Office discipline referrals were reviewed in the secondary school of Rural District 10 in Missouri from 2004-2013 to determine the significance between implementation of SW-PBS and the number of office discipline referrals. School climate was also studied in Rural District 10 as well as other secondary schools around the …