ISEA 2017: Day 4
What a great ISEA Class of 2017 – after happy hour and dinner, they were in class sessions and discussion late into the night. And yet, up bright and early Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Behavior / Discipline
Students with Disabilities Face Harsher Discipline
“Feds investigate claims that black and disabled students face harsher discipline in Richmond”
Keeping Students with Disabilities in School
Students with disabilities are presently suspended at much higher rates than other students in school districts across Texas and nationwide. In 2014, Jim Comstock-Galagan, Executive Director of the former Southern Continue Reading →
Struggling During Recess & School Activities? Address PBIS in the IEP
My daughter has autism. She has difficulty relating to other kids, she struggles at recess. She wants to participate in after school activities, but needs help. I was told that Continue Reading →
Feds Sue: Georgia’s Segregated Schools for Kids with Disabilities Are Illegal
On August 23, 2016, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against the State of Georgia for discriminating against thousands of public school students with behavior and emotional disabilities Continue Reading →
Play Deprivation and Behavior Problems
The research is clear. “Children need recess, the benefits of which range across developmental domains. Following are just seven reasons why, if we want children to achieve optimal intellectual, social/emotional, Continue Reading →
Taking Away Recess as Punishment – Does it Help?
“77 percent of school principals report that they withhold recess as punishment, even as they simultaneously sing the praises of recess as a factor in academic, cognitive, and social development. Continue Reading →
Sleep Disorders, Truancy and Student Needs: A Complicated Mix
I have a student with a sleep disorder and emotional issues. How do the compulsory attendance laws and a student with special education needs intertwine? Good question. All states have Continue Reading →
Are We Closing the Discipline Gap?
A new report published in February 2015 by the Civil Rights Project UCLA documents “gross disparities in the use of out-of-school suspension experienced by students with disabilities” and other subgroups. Continue Reading →
Shifting Away from Zero-Tolerance? Improving School Discipline Policies…
U.S. DOE and DOJ Release School Discipline Guidance Package Goal: Improve school discipline and school climate Reality: Kids with disabilities, especially minority kids, far more likely to be suspended, expelled, arrested, Continue Reading →