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Preventing School Violence

The Use of Office Discipline Referrals to Assess and Monitor School-Wide Discipline Interventions

College of Education at the University of Oregon

Jeffrey R. Sprague

University of Oregon Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior

Robert H. Horner

University of Oregon

Hill M. Walker

Center on Human Development, Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior in the College of Education at the University of Oregon

Confronted by increasing incidents of violent behavior in schools, educators are being asked to make schools safer. Schools, however, receive little guidance or assistance in their attempts to establish and sustain proactive discipline systems. One area of need lies in directions for use of existing discipline information to improve school-wide behavior support. In this article, we describe how office discipline referrals might be used as an information source to provide an indicator of the status of school-wide discipline and to improve the precision with which schools manage, monitor, and modify their universal interventions for all students and their targeted interventions for students who exhibit the most severe problem behaviors.

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