News: School Discipline

Students’ Mental Health Challenges: What They Say, What Schools and Adults Miss, and Why AI Isn’t the Answer

This Blog highlights the pervasive mental health crisis among K-12 students, arguing that schools miss early intervention opportunities due to inadequate mental health screenings and threat assessment...

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Improving School Climate and Student Engagement: The Final Piece of (and Assembling) the School Success Puzzle (Part V)

This final Blog in a five-part “school success” series focuses on School Climate and Student Engagement as both the foundation and culmination of the other four areas: Quality Instruction, Discipline...

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School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management: The Summer Preparations Needed for Excellence This Fall (Part II)

The Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to improve school discipline, classroom management, and student self-management during the coming new school year. It first describes th...

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Students’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss

This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...

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Research Teases Out the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences... But Many Educators Still Don’t Understand Social-Emotional Screeners, and the Limitations of ACEs-Only Assessments

Given the school-related challenges since students returned from the pandemic, this Blog discusses (a) the characteristics and concerns with social-emotional screening, and with only using an ACEs too...

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How Fad or Flawed School Programs Increase Poor Teacher Morale and Resistance to Change: When Education Keeps Adopting the Same Shaky Stuff, It Will Keep Getting Repeated Rocky Results (Part V)

Blog reviewed and integrated recent articles reporting that (a) teachers’ job satisfaction and mental health worsened last year, as did the need for student supports and interventions; and (b) distric...

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