What is Responsive Discipline?

Responsive Discipline is an integrated, restorative, and culturally responsive approach to discipline that aligns with initiatives, such as positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS), social-emotional learning (SEL), trauma-informed practices (TIP), and restorative practices (RP).  The goal is to sustainably improve learning outcomes while reducing repeat negative behaviors, as well as disproportionality in behavioral outcomes.

While every school district has student discipline guidelines outlined for their sites/schools, they vary in detail and effectiveness. Historically, discipline guidelines have erred on the side of being punitive in nature, with a quick path to an immediate loss of instruction time, suspension, and/or expulsion, negatively affecting learning outcomes for students.  This type of discipline can quickly lose the “effectiveness” and doesn't always manage students' long-term behaviors, inadvertently reinforcing beliefs and biases and therefore inequitable outcomes.  The alternative, and more productive options of focusing on changing student behavior by providing appropriate interventions and/or teaching skills the student is lagging.

At Collaborative Learning Solutions we use the phrase, "Get curious, not furious about the child's behavior” to better understand and reduce negative behaviors.

Key Benefits

Aligns and integrates current organization initiatives such as Positive Based Interventions and Supports, Social Emotional Learning, and Restorative Practices.
Teaches students how to translate rules and expectations into their own behavior, and to hold students to such behavior in a proactive, firm, fair, and consistent manner.
Provides action steps to address disproportionality in discipline by developing plans, tools, and resources to improve equity.
Allows for flexibility in providing students what they need for growth and learning.
Equips teachers with the right set of tools, resources, and response for various behavioral issues.
Increases student instructional time.
Creates and maintains a positive learning community and teaches students self-regulation.
Ensures access to appropriate supports across all sites.
Focuses on establishing structures of long term sustainability that is not reliant on one leader.

 

How We Can Help

Collaborative Learning Solutions is committed to challenging and helping schools recreate Responsive Discipline Guidelines to provide intervention for increased student success in inclusive environments.

Our Responsive Discipline approach helps school systems craft effective discipline guidelines in alignment with interventions or strategies such as positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS), social-emotional learning (SEL), Trauma-Informed Practices (TIP), and restorative practices (RP), just to name a few.

 

Auditing and Consultation

We partner with organizations to review and analyze the current discipline guidelines, including the current outcomes, values, and beliefs, to assess the current state and find opportunities for growth.

Our professional services include opportunities for district leadership teams to recreate a system and pathway to equip staff with consistent tools and strategies needed to respond to student behaviors and allow for increased effectiveness of learning.

Professional Learning

Our professional learning services include opportunities for district leadership teams to recreate a system and pathway to equip staff with consistent tools and strategies needed to respond to student behaviors and allow for increased effectiveness of learning.

*We customize all of our solutions for each district, school, etc. we work with. Please contact us for more information or assistance.

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