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Before the words “namby-pamby”, “weenie”, or “not the way they did things in my day” start flowing across your lips, take a look at these numbers:

2009-2010 (Before new approach)

798 suspensions (days students were out of school)
50 expulsions
600 written referrals
2010-2011 (After new approach)

135 suspensions (days students were out of school)
30 expulsions
320 written referrals
“It sounds simple,” says Sporleder about the new approach. “Just by asking kids what’s going on with them, they just started talking. It made a believer out of me right away

http://acestoohigh.com/2012/04/23/lincoln-high-school-in-walla-walla-wa-tries-new-approach-to-school-discipline-expulsions-drop-85/

I WISH EVERY TEACHER IN THE WORLD WOULD READ THIS ARTICLE. AND PARENTS, TOO. AND YOU.

(via neil-gaiman)

The way a school looks sends a powerful message to students. When it’s clean, and beautiful, and there’s no graffiti, well, then, students know something important is happening inside.

Former Assembly Member Coto at the opening of San Antonio’s new $18 million campus

If this is true, what is the message to kids when their school is falling apart?

(via ljuve)