1. Tammy Harbor- Teacher
Pam Partker- School Psych
Robert Neil- Sped. Teacher
Giselle Alcantar- Soto- Teacher
Belinda Zintzun- Social Worker
Eric Jennings- Assistant Principal
2
Discipline Areas
| FRD ISS (IN School Suspension) and OSS (Out of School Suspension)
| Special Education (SWD)
| Males
|
3
Preliminary Finding and Disparity
|
·
FRD-
o
ISS
(26% overrepresented,
+14 students over)
o
OSS (36% overrepresented, +11 students)
| ·
SWD-
o
ISS (20% overrepresented, +3 students
o
OSS (17% overrepresented, + 4 students)
| Males
o
ISS (26% overrepresented 15 students)
o
OSS
(no actual disproportionality 1 student either way would
statistically create a disproportionality.
|
4
Additional Data
| Additional Data needed:
·
Violations type (weapon, drugs, etc) found on Insight.
| Additional Data Needed:
o
Special Education
Program breakdown
| Additional Data:
FRD breakdown
|
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Discuss Preliminary finding and review
| Non-duplicated frequency of
violation type (students can be duplicated in the multiple categories).
o
Drugs,
Alcohol, Tobacco (19 students)
o
Fight w/out Injury(18 students)
o
Non-Compliant Behavior (8 students)
o
Failure to Report (6 students)
o
Truant (6 students)
Discussion:
·
Substance abuse is molded and accessible
·
Fighting stems from:
o
defensiveness and
o
lack of security.
o
Social misunderstanding (example: Mean mugging)
·
Non-compliance stems from:
o
Passive aggression
o
Gain power by rejecting norms to watch other manifest the emotions they are feeling. (example: out of control, frustrated, threatened, etc.)
| Program Breakdown
o
3 students in Achieve
o
5 students in Resource Room
6
students
FRD
2 students are not on FRD
*This point to focusing on the Students of poverty.
| 62% of Male suspended students are
report the need to
receive FRD (Looking at the list there are more that could qualify but choose not too).
*This point to focusing on the Students of poverty.
|
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Issue, Cause, Root Cause
| Why are students overrepresented?
1.
Issue
:
Basic Needs-
Students
don’t eat breakfast
a.
Cause:
Students do not like
to get
breakfast
i.
Root Cause:
Non-
preferred
food
ii.
Root Cause:
Stigma for getting breakfast
b.
Cause:
Students
can’t get it after the
school
day start.
i.
Root Cause:
Access after 7:30
2.
Issue
:
Basic Need- students are tired
a.
Cause
: can’t sleep at home
b.
Cause
: No supervision on phone use.
3.
Issue
:
Prevented education on how to navigate conflict.
a.
Cause
:
No exposer to
alternative
examples that students can connect with.
i.
Root Cause:
Student’s bring the rules of their neighborhoods into school because they are not taught how to
communicate displeasure the way school
norms dictate (code switching)
b.
Cause:
The is not approach/consistent
process to proactively teach disagreement and advocacy.
i.
Root Cause:
Unclear
PBIS Process/Restorative Justice
| Why are students overrepresented in
Special Ed.?
1.
Issue:
They are on FRD
2.
Issue: We are dealing with a small number of students (30 and 24)
| |
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Root Cause
Corrective Action
| Root Cause:
Non-
Preferred food
Corrective Action:
Students seem to like
after school snack more than breakfast as far as choices.
Root Cause:
Stigma for getting breakfast
Corrective Action:
Offer breakfast to everyone
Root Cause:
Access to breakfast after class starts
Corrective Action:
Have a “pantry” in a couple of places throughout the high school where students can
pick up dry cereal and
breakfast easily.
Root Cause:
Students not getting enough sleep.
Corrective Action:
Instruction and promotion of healthy sleep hygiene outside of health. (example: Healthy Sleep
Month)
Root Cause:
Students
solving conflicts using neighborhood strategies.
Corrective Action:
Alternative
and accessible models for resolving conflict
how school resolves it.
Root Cause
:
Unclear PBIS Process/Restorative Justice structure.
Corrective Action:
Task a team create a clear restorative justice/ PBIS process for solving conflicts and implement it.
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