What changes can we make to our discipline procedures to make them effective in discourage students from repeating offenses?

In our school there is a group of students that are repeat discipline problems.  These students are constantly in the office or ISS for the same or similar issues. This creates problems beyond just the discipline issue, lost instructional time, class room disruptions, time consuming for teachers and principals to deal with to name a few.

Discipline should not be just a punishment for undesirable actions, but also a motivator to keep students from repeating the same or similar actions.  By evaluating and improving our school’s discipline procedures, we can decrease the number of discipline problems and the other problems that are associated with them.  This action research will benefit the student, teachers, principals and parents.  

Action Planning Template
Goal: Decrease the number of repeat disciple problem, decrease the amount of time teachers and administrators spend on dealing with disciple problems
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Identify students who have 5 or more discipline referrals	David Brown	May/June	Principal/ Student discipline folders	Personal notes
Identify types of discipline problems of students with 5 or more discipline referrals	David Brown	May/June	Principal/ Student discipline folders	Spread sheet showing types and frequency of discipline problems
Identify what is the current discipline procedures of the most frequent discipline issues	David Brown	May/June	Principal/ Student discipline folder	Personal notes
Research discipline methods that have be proven to be effective in decreasing discipline problems	David Brown	June/ July	Internet, articles, books, talk with other principals about there discipline procedures	Take note on ideals that might be successful in my school
Develop new discipline procedures	David Brown/ Principal	July/August	Notes from research of discipline methods, copy of existing discipline procedures	New discipline Plan
Implement new discipline procedures	Principal	August /Dec	New discipline plan	Number of discipline referrals for identified students
Evaluate new  discipline procedures	David Brown	January	Principal/ student discipline records/ teacher survey	Compare the number of discipline referrals under new discipline plan to the number  of referrals of the previous plan