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Alternative Approaches
Information about alternative approaches to discipline, such as restorative justice, social and emotional learning, and positive behavioral support
General Approaches
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Why Do We Convince Ourselves That Students Are Misbehaving on Purpose?, Chalkbeat, March 16, 2022
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Teacher Voice: Breaking the School-to-Prison-Pipeline with 'Windows and Mirrors' for Black Boys, The Hechinger Report, March 26, 2019
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Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2019
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If School Rules Aren’t Building a Sense of Community, Let’s Be Brave Enough to Rewrite Them, Education Post, October 24, 2018
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Online Implicit Bias Module for K-12 Educators, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, Ohio State University, August 29, 2018
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Research on Disproportionality in Discipline, National Association of School Psychologists [Podcast], September 8, 2018
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Disciplined and Disconnected: The Experience of Exclusionary Discipline in Minnesota and the Promise of Non-Exclusionary Alternatives, America's Promise Alliance, June 2018
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Instead of Suspension and Expulsion: Alternatives Strategies for Effective School Discipline, Duke Center for Child and Family Policy and Duke Law School, 2015.
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Detentions, Suspension and Expulsion do Not Curb Violent Behavior. The Positive Approaches, Support Systems that Work, The Hechinger Report, January 3, 2017
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Teachers are Ready to End the School to Prison Pipeline, Education Post, December 2017
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Chicago Schools' Big Experiment With a Different Disciplinary Tool: Empathy, Christian Science Monitor, April 12, 2017
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Fix School Discipline: How We Can Fix School Discipline, Educator Toolkit, Public Counsel.
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How Do We Fix the School-to-Prison Pipeline?, American Bar Association Journal Podcast, August 4, 2014, provides an overview of the school-to-prison pipeline and discusses what legal advocates and others can do to improve school practices, [Podcast]
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How Educators Can Eradicate Disparities in School Discipline: A Briefing Paper on School-Based Interventions, The Equity Project at Indiana University, March 2014
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Eliminating Excessive and Unfair Exclusionary Discipline in Schools: Policy Recommendations for Reducing Disparities, Discipline Disparities Collaborative, March 2014
Restorative Justice and Practices
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Restorative Practices in Baltimore City Schools: Research Updates and Implementation Guide, Open Society Institute-Baltimore, September 2020; Baltimore Sun news article, Johns Hopkins Study Shows Potential for Restorative Practices to Reduce Suspensions, Improve Schools, October 1, 2020
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The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here?, National Education Policy Center, January 14, 2020
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Kalamazoo Schools Report Zero Expulsions after 'Paradigm Shift’ to Restorative Discipline, MLive Media Group, February 5, 2019
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Study Contradicts Betsy DeVos' Reason for Eliminating School Disciplining Guidance, U.S. News & World Report, January 4, 2019
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Dear Restorative Justice: Our Student Isn’t Responding, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 2, 2018
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Does Restorative Justice Work Better Than Traditional School Discipline?, The74Million.org
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An Examination of Restorative Interventions and Racial Equity in Out-of-School Suspensions, School Psychology Review, 2018
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Twice a Week, These Texas Students Circle Up and Talk About Their Feelings. It’s Lowering Suspensions and Preventing Violence, Texas Tribune, May 29, 2018
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Inspiring the Future: Case Study of Alternatives’ Restorative Justice Work at Paul Robeson High School 2014-2017, Alternatives
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Restorative Justice Done Right is Good for Kids, New York Daily News, February 2018
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Why Restorative Justice?, ACLU of Pennsylvania, July, 2017
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Taking Restorative Practices School Wide: Insights from Three Schools in Denver, Denver School-Based Restorative Practices Partnership, 2016
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Parent-to-Parent Guide on Restorative Justice, Community Organizing and Family Issues, Chicago, December 2015
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Why Restorative Justice, Chicago Safe Schools Consortium, 2015
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8 Tips for Schools Interested in Restorative Justice, Edutopia, September 2014
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Popularity of Restorative Justice Has Its Pitfalls, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, July 18, 2014
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From Policy to Standard Practice: Restorative Justice in Chicago Public Schools, High Hopes Campaign, Chicago, Spring 2012
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School-based Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Zero-Tolerance Policies: Lessons from West Oakland, University of California at Berkeley, 2010
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Implementing Restorative Justice, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, October 2009
Social and Emotional Learning
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Supporting and Responding to Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs: Evidence-Based Practices for Educators, pbis.org, January 2022
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Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools, Communities for Just Schools Fund, October 2020
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When SEL Is Used as Another Form of Policing, Communities for Just Schools Fund, May 7, 2020
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Powerful SEL Is Happening After School, Too, Edutopia, February 12, 2020
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Making SEL Culturally Competent, Edutopia, January 9, 2020
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Many Teachers See Social-Emotional Learning As the ‘Missing Link’ in Student Success, Hechinger Report, August 15, 2019
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Teachers Support Social-Emotional Learning, But Say Students in Distress Strain Their Skills, Education Week, July 2019
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Supporting Social and Emotional Development to Boost Academic Success, EdNext Podcast, April 10, 2019
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Social-Emotional Learning Has Long-Lasting Positive Effects on Students, Study Says, Education Week, July 2017
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Social and Emotional Learning Perspectives from America's Schools, Education Week, 2015
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What Does Evidence-Based Instruction in Social and Emotional Learning Actually Look Like in Practice?, Casel, October 2015
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Measuring Elementary School Students’ Social and Emotional Skills: Providing Educators with Tools to Measure and Monitor Social and Emotional Skills that Lead to Academic Success, Child Trends, August 2015
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Academic Learning + Social-Emotional Learning = National Priority, Kappan, October 2013
Trauma Informed Education
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Practice to Policy: Educators Urge Students to Stay in Class, Not Cuffs, America Forward, February 13, 2018
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Trauma-Informed Classrooms, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 2017
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Schools that Heal: Creating Trauma-informed School Communities, Educators for Excellence, May 2017
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Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education, Child Trends, April 2017
Positive Behavior Intervention and Support
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A 5-Point Intervention Approach for Enhancing Equity in School Discipline, pbis.org, February 2018
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How Can You Love the Kids but Hate the Parents? A Shadow Report on the Unfulfilled Promises at LAUSD School Discipline Reform in South LA, Dignity in Schools, October 2017
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Redefining Dignity in Our Schools: A Shadow Report on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support Implementation in South Los Angeles 2007-2010, Dignity in Schools, June 2010