Closing the Discipline Gap at Leasure Elementary School
- ISBN-10
- 1369351518
- ISBN-13
- 9781369351514
- Pages
- 279
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Author
- Kimberly Marie Molitor
Description
This Education Leadership Portfolio (ELP) documents my efforts to create and recommend interventions that best serve Leasure Elementary School students. The need for interventions emerged from a compliance agreement between the Office of Civil Rights and all schools in the Christina School District to address racially disproportionate discipline problems and disciplinary actions. This ELP comprises a study of the problem, a presentation of resources, and an account of initiatives to help address the challenges of high discipline referrals and racial "disproportionality" in the school. I analyzed student data to learn about the discipline problem and about relationships among demographic, discipline, parental involvement, achievement, and attendance variables. From this work and from interviews and literature reviews, I present several promising practices and recommendations including a school-based mentoring program, mentoring resources for stakeholders, a "Student-Led Conferences" model, parent involvement activities, character education activities, and discipline data teams. In addition to describing each recommendation, this ELP reflects on this project's accomplishments as well as continuing needs for improvements. It concludes with recommendations for future actions and a reflection on my leadership role.
