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General Approaches

General Approaces

Why Do We Convince Ourselves That Students Are Misbehaving on Purpose?, Chalkbeat, March, 2022
Teacher Voice: Breaking the School-to-Prison-Pipeline with 'Windows and Mirrors' for Black Boys, The Hechinger Report, March, 2019
If School Rules Aren’t Building a Sense of Community, Let’s Be Brave Enough to Rewrite Them, Education Post, October, 2018
Detentions, Suspension and Expulsion do Not Curb Violent Behavior. The Positive Approaches, Support Systems that Work, The Hechinger Report, January, 2017
Teachers are Ready to End the School to Prison Pipeline, Education Post, December 2017
Chicago Schools' Big Experiment With a Different Disciplinary Tool: Empathy, Christian Science Monitor, April, 2017

Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2019
How Educators Can Eradicate Disparities in School Discipline: A Briefing Paper on School-Based Interventions, The Equity Project at Indiana University, March 2014
Eliminating Excessive and Unfair Exclusionary Discipline in Schools: Policy Recommendations for Reducing Disparities, Discipline Disparities Collaborative, March 2014
Disciplined and Disconnected: The Experience of Exclusionary Discipline in Minnesota and the Promise of Non-Exclusionary Alternatives, Center for Promise, June 2018
Instead of Suspension: Alternatives Strategies for Effective School Discipline, Duke Center for Child and Family Policy and Duke Law School, 2015.
Addressing the Out-of-School Suspension Crisis: A Policy Guide for School Board Members, National Opportunity to Learn Campaign, the National School Boards Association, et al., April 2013

Implicit Bias

Implicit Bias

State of the Science: Implicit Bias in Education 2018-2020, Kirwan Institute at Ohio State, 2024
Student Surveillance, Racial Inequalities, and Implicit Racial Bias, University of Florida College of Law, April 2017
Locked Out of the Classroom: How Implicit Bias Contributes to Disparities in School Discipline, NAACPLDF, November 2017
Do Early Educators’ Implicit Biases Regarding Sex and Race Relate to Behavior Expectations and Recommendations of Preschool Expulsions and Suspensions?, A Research Study Brief, Yale Child Study Center, September, 2016
Implicit Racial Bias and School Discipline Disparities: Exploring the Connection, Kirwan Institute at The Ohio State University, May 2014
Racial Disproportionality in School Discipline: Implicit Bias is Heavily Implicated, Kirwan Institute at The Ohio University, February 2014

Restorative Justice and Practices

Restorative Justice and Practices

Johns Hopkins Study Shows Potential for Restorative Practices to Reduce Suspensions, Improve Schools, Baltimore Sun,October, 2020
Kalamazoo Schools Report Zero Expulsions after 'Paradigm Shift’ to Restorative Discipline, MLive Media Group, February, 2019
Study Contradicts Betsy DeVos' Reason for Eliminating School Disciplining Guidance, U.S. News & World Report, January, 2019
Dear Restorative Justice: Our Student Isn’t Responding, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November, 2018
Does Restorative Justice Work Better Than Traditional School Discipline?, The74Million.org
Twice a Week, These Texas Students Circle Up and Talk About Their Feelings. It’s Lowering Suspensions and Preventing Violence, Texas Tribune, May, 2018
Restorative Justice Done Right is Good for Kids, New York Daily News, February, 2018
Why Restorative Justice?, ACLU of Pennsylvania, July, 2017
8 Tips for Schools Interested in Restorative Justice, Edutopia, September, 2014
Popularity of Restorative Justice Has Its Pitfalls, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, July, 2014

An Examination of Restorative Interventions and Racial Equity in Out-of-School Suspensions, School Psychology Review, 2018
Restorative Practices in Baltimore City Schools: Research Updates and Implementation Guide, Open Society Institute-Baltimore, September 2020;
The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here?, National Education Policy Center, January, 2020
Inspiring the Future: Case Study of Alternatives’ Restorative Justice Work at Paul Robeson High School 2014-2017, Alternatives
Taking Restorative Practices School Wide: Insights from Three Schools in Denver, Denver School-Based Restorative Practices Partnership, 2016
Why Restorative Justice?, Chicago Safe Schools Consortium, 2015
From Policy to Standard Practice: Restorative Justice in Chicago Public Schools, High Hopes Campaign, Chicago, Spring, 2012
School-based Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Zero-Tolerance Policies: Lessons from West Oakland, University of California at Berkeley, 2010

Implementing Restorative Justice, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, October, 2009
Restorative Practices: Fostering Healthy Relationships and Promoting Positive Discipline in Schools, An Educators Guide, March, 2014
Parent-to-Parent Guide on Restorative Justice, Community Organizing and Family Issues, Chicago, December, 2015
Advancing School Discipline Reform, Education Leaders Report, volume 1, no. 2, National Association of State Boards of Education, August, 2015

Social and Emotional Learning

Social and Emotional Learning

When SEL Is Used as Another Form of Policing, Communities for Just Schools Fund, May, 2020
Powerful SEL Is Happening After School, Too, Edutopia, February, 2020
Making SEL Culturally Competent, Edutopia, January, 2020
Many Teachers See Social-Emotional Learning As the ‘Missing Link’ in Student Success, Hechinger Report, August, 2019
Teachers Support Social-Emotional Learning, But Say Students in Distress Strain Their Skills, Education Week, July, 2019
Social and Emotional Learning Perspectives from America's Schools, Education Week, 2015
Social-Emotional Learning Has Long-Lasting Positive Effects on Students, Study Says, Education Week, July, 2017

Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools, Communities for Just Schools Fund, October, 2020
What Does Evidence-Based Instruction in Social and Emotional Learning Actually Look Like in Practice?, Casel, October, 2015
A National Teacher Survey on How Social and Emotional Learning Can Empower Children and Transform Schools, Casel, January, 2013
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
Academic Learning + Social-Emotional Learning = National Priority, Kappan, October, 2013

Trauma Informed Education

Trauma Informed Education

Practice to Policy: Educators Urge Students to Stay in Class, Not Cuffs, America Forward, February, 2018

Positive Behavior Intervention and Support

Positive Behavior Intervention and Support

A 5-Point Intervention Approach for Enhancing Equity in School Discipline, pbis.org, February, 2018
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
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

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