Hacking School Discipline

Course Description:

Eliminate old-school punishments and create a community of responsible, productive learners

Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension-antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.

Replace traditional school discipline with a proven system, founded on restorative justice.

“Maynard and Weinstein provide practical tips and strategies in the context of real-world examples, guided by the imperatives of changing the behavior and preserving the relationship. An important read for teachers and administrators.”
-Danny Steele, award-winning principal and co-author of Essential Truths for Principals and Essential Truths for Teachers

Before you suspend another student …

read Hacking School Discipline, and build a school environment that promotes responsible learners, who never need to be punished. Then watch learning soar, teachers smile, and your entire community rejoice.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe each of the ten dimensions of an inclusive learning environment
• Examine your strengths and needed areas for each of the ten dimensions of an inclusive learning environment
• Reflect on current school wide behavior system
• Analyze current school wide office referral data
• Facilitate a conversation between you and administration about current behavior data while setting a goal to change percentage of office referrals based on implementation of one or more of the ‘Hacks’
• Learn how to reduce repeated negative behaviors while building student self-regulation and empathy
• Enhance communication and collaboration while identifying the true cause of negative behaviors
• Use restorative justice techniques to reflect on behaviors and discuss impactful change

Course Details:

Date: Register anytime between August 21, 2025 – August 20, 2026
Course #:  LR 288:746
Instructor:  Stephanie Scott (stephanie@growprofessionally.com)
Number of License Renewal Credits:  2
Registration Deadline: Last day to register is Thursday, August 20, 2026, by 5:00 p.m.