Moving Mountains: Changing the way we discipline in Washington StateJess Lewis, Behavior and Discipline Program Supervisor

101,364 total incidents reported in 2012-13

72,230 Suspen-sion or Expulsion

1,844 Suspen-sions or Expul-sions with In-tervention < 1

day

29,134 Other In-tervention

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Percent of students by number of discipline incidents

1 2 3 4 5 6+0%

1%

2%

3%

4%

5%

6%

FemaleMale

5.7% of All Students were reported in one or more incidents(8.2% of Males and 3% of Females)

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Percent of students in each grade level who were suspended or expelled

K1 K2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Overall

0%

1%

2%

3%

4%

5%

6%

7%

8%

9%

10%

1.54

%

0.63

%

1.30

%

1.55

%

1.81

%

2.24

% 3.18

%

5.67

%

7.76

% 9.25

%

8.38

%

7.33

%

5.66

%

4.08

%

4.52

%

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Percent of students in each race / ethnicity category who were reported in incidents

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te

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ore

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All

Stud

ents

0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%5.

60%

8.29

%

1.70

%

11.8

3%

6.99

%

3.71

% 5.17

%

4.52

%

6.8%

10.3

%

2.2%

13.3

%

8.4%

4.9%

6.6%

5.7%

% Suspended or Expelled

% in Any Incident

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Percent of students who were suspended or expelled

Bilingual Not Bilingual

Special Ed Not Special Ed

Low Income

Not Low Income

0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%4.

51%

4.52

%

9.67

%

3.78

%

7.26

%

2.18

%

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Behaviors associated with a suspension or expulsion

Alcohol Bullying Fighting w/out

Major In-jury

Illicit Drug

Other behavior

Weapon Tobacco Violence with Ma-

jor In-jury

Violence w/out

Major In-jury

-

5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

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Percent of Suspensions or Expulsions with “Other” Behavior

K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 120%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%