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3. 30 SECONDS • Take a look at me. Size me up, judge me, make some assumptions about who you think I am based on your very limited exposure to me.

4. DISCUSSION • In your school team, discuss what is problematic about the student discipline anecdote that I shared with you from my high school experience.

5. DIAGNOSING THE PROBLEM • Cut school- consequence was not being allowed to come to school • We don’t know why he cut school- might be a deeper cause • Outcome of discipline policy = loss of learning • What does Jim learn from the consequence?

6. Principles, not Practices

7. Learning and growth is the point of student discipline – not justice

8. Student discipline has to be directly tied to a positive vision of student behavior and school culture

9. The consequences assigned to a student should be logically connected to the student’s behavior

10. Shift the responsibility for solving the problem from the adult to the student

11. Alternative discipline begins with investing in your relationships with students

12. Principles, not Practices • Focused on learning • Linked to a positive vision of school culture • Invests in and builds relationships • Consequences are logically connected to behaviors • Students take responsibility for solving the problem

13. DISCUSSION • Examine your school’s discipline policy in the context of these principles. • In what ways do your policies, practices, and structures reflect those principles? • In what ways do they undermine those principles?

14. Next Step • Take one policy, practice, or structure in your school that does not reflect those principles and re-fashion it so that it does honor them.

15. A Couple of Resources • SaferSanerSchools: Transforming School Culture with Restorative Practices • The Power of Our WordsbyPaula Denton

16. Resources • NTN Quick Guide – Building Positive School Culture • SaferSanerSchools: Transforming School Culture with Restorative Practices • The Power of Our WordsbyPaula Denton