Administrative Detention- After-school
Administrative Detention- Night School
Administrative Detention- Saturday School
In previous years, students who had administrative detention were asked to complete a “detention worksheet” which only took them 10 minutes to complete and was repetitive. In order for the students to have a learning experience, I wanted to look at the administrative detention (Night school and Saturday school) procedures to improve the quality of learning and improve its effectiveness. My first step was to create various detention packets that would be self-reflective and require at least two hours of work. On the first page of each packet was a formal document to help administration track student records. Following the first page was a multi-step self-reflective assignment that explored not only the behavior itself, but the impact it may have.
I believe my new discipline practice will make a profound impact on how students and staff look at our detentions. Instead of it being seen as a punishment, students and staff will see this as an opportunity to offer guidance and motivate students to make the right choices.
When looking at my school’s documents, many of them are outdated and do not follow current practices. I believe this activity shows that school documents should be revisited often and updated to meet the needs of our current society.
The next steps in this process is it look into our discipline policy’s effectiveness. If this process continue to be ineffective, further changes will need to take place. Also, we will analyze our discipline data from this school year to see if certain student groups are being affected and if so, we need to revisit our discipline policies in regards to fairness and equity.
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