RTP Brief: Positive Behavior Discipline Codes

School disciplinary procedures are typically articulated in written codes of conduct by which students abide, teachers enforce, and families accept. Discipline codes tend to focus on negative sanctions that are reactionary, such as sending students out of the classroom, detentions, in-school and out of school suspensions, and expulsions. Most often, these exclusionary approaches focus on delivering a punitive consequence without instruction about desired behaviors... Read the FULL BRIEF HERE and comment below.