News: School Discipline
Beating Kids in Schools: How Corporal Punishment Reinforces Bias, Violence, Trauma, Poor Social Problem-Solving, and the Fallacy of Intervention
The Alternative? Eliminate Corporal Punishment by Preventing its Need, and Implementing Interventions that Actually Change Student BehaviorDear Colleagues,Early in my career—well over 30 years ago—I s...
Read Full ArticleNational Policies, State Procedures, and Local Practices: Avoiding Untested Traps and Unhelpful Trends
Links to My “Most-Liked” Blogs: Effective Practice, Questionable Policies, and Unproven BandwagonsDear Colleague,Since 2003, I have been writing this Blog. . . analyzing essential policies and critica...
Read Full ArticleEffective School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management: The Five Components that Every School Needs
Reflections on a National Survey of Administrators and TeachersDear Colleagues,I hope you had a great summer. . . but (believe it or not), for some of you the summer is already over- - and school has...
Read Full ArticleWhy Students Don't Behave? Because We are not Teaching Them the Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills They Need
The Unfulfilled Promise of Education: Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral SkillsWhy the “Soft Skills” are the Hard Skills, and Why they are Essential for Students’ Academic SuccessDear Colleag...
Read Full ArticleSchool Resource Officers: Helping or Hurting Students and School Discipline?
Integrating Hiring, Training, and Deployment Criteria for School Resource Officers, School-based Police, and Security Guards into States’ ESEA-Required Bullying, Restraint, and Suspension PlansDear Co...
Read Full ArticleStart the School Day Later? How Students Use their After-School Time, Media and Smartphones, and Opportunities to Sleep
Use Your Time to Read this Blog !!!Dear Colleagues,As we all take time this long holiday weekend to think about everything that we are thankful for, I’ve been thinking about the issue of time that kee...
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