Comprehensive Student Discipline Guide and Behavioral Interventions

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Comprehensive Student Discipline Guide and
Behavioral Interventions

• Student Support

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• Murrieta Valley Unified School District
• Our Mission
• To inspire every student to think, to learn, to
  achieve, to care.

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Problem

• We remain extremely concerned about the
  substantial and persisting investment in reactive
  and punitive approachesas a primary strategy for
  addressing the challenges presented by
  behaviorally at-risk youthsuch approaches are
  ultimately doomed to failureunless they are
  counterbalanced with comprehensive prevention
  efforts
• Walker, H.M., Shinn, M.R. Structuring
  School-Based Interventions to Achieve Integrated
  Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Goals
  for Safe and Effective Schools. In M. Shinn,
  H.Walker, G. Stoner (Eds.), Interventions for
  Academic and Behavior Problems Preventive and
  Remedial Approaches. Bethesda, MD NASP.

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Expulsion Data
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Binge Drinking
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IOM and SAP ComponentsContinuum of Services
Comprehensive SAP

• Intensive
• Internal Referral Process and Services
• Individualized Family Conferences and Family
  Action Planning
• Suicide Prevention and Intervention
• Targeted
• Educational Student Support Groups
• Parenting Workshops
• Support Groups
• Universal
• School Board Policy
• Staff Development
• Prevention Lessons
• Integration with Other School-based Programs
• Cooperation and Collaboration Communitywide
• Classroom Curriculum and School-wide Events
• Crisis Team Response

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RTI Pyramid
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Who Do We Serve?
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Contributions by Gender
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Who Participated?
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Number Served
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Impact of Breakthrough Program by Participation
in Family Conference
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Impact of Breakthrough Program by Participation
in Family Conference
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40 Developmental Assets
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40 Developmental Assets
Empowerment
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40 Developmental Assets
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40 Developmental Assets
Commitment to Learning
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Referral Sources

• Self-referral
• Concerned school staff, parents, peers, coaches
• Suspended students
• Gifted and Talented Programs
• Student Study Team
• School Attendance Review Board and similar
  programs
• Parenting Programs
• Juvenile Probation
• Child Protective Services
• County programs including ATOD Tx. wanting
  support for children of clients in treatment
• YAT/YAB

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Carpe Diem
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Carpe Diem
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Carpe Diem Best Practices for Keeping Students
Engaged in School

• Individualized academic instruction
• Positive classroom management (level system)
• Informal interactions and low pupil-teacher ratio
• Instruction in interpersonal, self-control, and
  social skills
• Service learning
• Flexibility
• Parent involvement
• Tobin, T. Sprague, J. Alternative Educational
  Programs Accommodating Tertiary Level, At-Risk
  Students. In M. Shinn, H. Walker, G. Stoner
  (Eds.), Interventions for Academic and Behavior
  Problems Preventive and Remedial Approaches.
  Bethesda, MD NASP.

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Carpe Diem

• 52 students were eligible to return
• 42 did return (10 moved out of district)
• There has been an average GPA increase of one
  full point for returning students at end of 1st
  semester of return.
• Parents comment that students are more focused
  and eager to learn.
• Fewer discipline problems upon return.

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Need for Alternatives

• Financial cost of incarceration of juveniles and
  rehabilitation of adolescents and adults.
• If dropout prevention programs were widely used
  at all levels and cost comparisons were based on
  all programs that taxpayers support, The
  benefits of dropout prevention would exceed the
  costs by a ratio of 91 (Altenbaugh, Engel
  Martin, 1995, p.170)
• Even if students dont graduate, every year of
  schooling is valuable Each added year of
  secondary education reduces the probability of
  public welfare dependency in adulthood by 35
  (National Research Council, 1993).

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Murrieta Valley Unified School District

• Inspire every student to think, to learn,
• to achieve, to care.