Un recurso para empoderar a las familias para que ayuden a sus hijos, y a todos los niños en sus escuelas, a prosperar. Este playbook para familias cubre investigaciones y datos clave sobre disciplina, suspensiones y justicia restaurativa.
Understanding student discipline and suspensions data and research can empower parents to help their children and school communities flourish.
This playbook summarizes research and data that shows suspensions negatively affect all students; some students are suspended more than others; the positive effects of restorative justice; and more. It also includes actions parents can take to learn more about their child’s school’s approach to school discipline and school climate.
Carefully designed accountability systems can spur schools to improve; others can undermine improvement and equity.
This post features excerpts from an article by Elaine M. Allensworth, research professor at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and author of Using Data to Improve Schools.
Sabina Shaikh is a Senior Instructional Professor and Director of Academic Programs in the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU), and affiliated faculty member of the Committee on Southern Asia Studies at the University of Chicago. Her research examines on human interactions with the environment, focusing on the societal aspects of environmental transformations and sustainable urban development. She currently has funded research projects on green schoolyards as climate resilience in Chicago and Paris, and the study of global urban rivers and sustainability planning.
Maisie is a former high school mathematics teacher and prior to that a patent writer in her hometown of Houston, Texas. She is a UM NCID member, STaR Fellow, and a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in STEM Education, and UIC Graduate College Abraham Lincoln Fellowship. She received her PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and her BS in electrical engineering from Duke University.
Handbook of Race, Equity, and Asset-Based Research in Educational Psychology offers a profound vision of contemporary educational psychology scholarship, practice, policy, teaching, and research design that is both informed by and empowering of social justice.
This research-practice study examines how to develop adult capacity to strengthen school connectedness, improve attendance, and support learning. It tests a professional learning model that helps school teams use and apply data, build lasting improvement routines, and work with their school communities to improve outcomes.
Wenyan Xu is a postdoctoral scholar in the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the impacts of environmental exposures on human health, with a strong interest in interdisciplinary research methods. With a background in landscape architecture and training in environmental design, she has expanded her research into environmental epidemiology.