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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Is Your School Properly Equipped For Quality Discipline? One of the biggest challenges to running a successful discipline program is having "radar screens" that display information all professional personnel can access, share, and use in decision-making. Over the coming days I will review a number of these "radar screens" that are particularly essential to any quality discipline plan. One of them is Special Education. Consider: Does your campus do any of the following---- *assign students to discipline without determining if they have a Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP) in place and reviewing it to assess the appropriateness and compliance aspects of the disciplinary consequence? *assign special education students to disciplinary consequences without easily, systematically notifying special education personnel with a need to know. *assign students to In-School Suspension (ISS) without appropriate Special Education support of these students while they are in there. For instance, there is no ready access to the student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) ...or the student is not receiving services as required for any other reason. *rarely, or at best inconsistently, document academic and behavioral matters regarding the day-to-day progress of the more challenging students, whether they be Special Education or not. *not have a system in place for professionals with a need to know to readily study notes and histories of other professionals in an effort to make more informed, efficient, and holistic decisions regarding each individual student. *not easily print reports to assess patterns of disciplinary referrals and/or consequences. For instance, what percentage of days assigned to ISS are accounted for by Special Education students? The professional staff of any school could benefit from having more radar screens like those provided in Discipline Manager to address all of the Special Education challenges above...and more. The Special Education "radar screen" is but one of many Discipline Manager has in a web-based application that is easy to use and affordable...by any account. More "radar screens" to good discipline in upcoming posts!
 Posted at 11:08 AM Keywords: Discipline , School Climate , Accountability , Special Education , Compliance , Documentation , Teachers , BIP , IEP , ISS , Assistant Principals , Special Education Diagnosticians , Special Education Psychologists , School Counselors , ISS Monitors , EdClick 4 Comments |
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Maryland said... Real brain power on dipsaly. Thanks for that answer! Sunday, October 30, 2011 10:49 AM |