Sheffield Elementary, a grade 3-6 school in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, faced a challenge familiar to many educators: how to develop a more consistent approach to discipline from classroom to classroom and in common school areas, such as the playground, lunchroom, and hallways. In the fall of...
"Each month, a different grade level is in charge of putting up student work on the office and lobby windows, and another class is in charge of putting up student work in the lunchroom. We also have three display cases in our lobby. One of them is a Reading Showcase. Pictures of stud...
leave the lunchroom and enter a hallway before the end of the period. Sometime between then and 2 p.m. that day, two students led D.S. through a set of unsecured doors, where a male student raped her while another female student acted as a “look-out.” The para-professional ...