Keywords
Restorative Practice, discipline, minoritized students, school-to-prison pipeline
Abstract
Restorative Practices is a behavior management system that focuses on root cause analysis and repairing harms caused by those infractions. This study focused on the correlation between the knowledge that stakeholders possessed regarding Restorative Practices and their perceived impact on the school disciplinary program. In addition, the study sought to determine which aspects of Restorative Practices were most effective as well as examine the viewpoints of disciplinary stakeholders regarding Restorative Practices as a large, urban school district in central Florida.
Recent literature shows that punitive and exclusionary discipline practices have an adverse impact on minoritized populations as the students are often penalized more harshly than their white peers for subjective infractions such as insubordination and disrespect. Zero-tolerance discipline policies came on the heels of the zero-tolerance gun laws from the 1990s, increasing the number of students suspended within schools and strengthening the school-to-prison pipeline for minoritized populations (Katic, Alba, & Johnson, 2020).
The study was conducted as a mixed-methods study using a Pearson correlation and a Casual- Comparative analysis. The study focused on school leaders and discipline stakeholders from a large, urban school district in central Florida and was conducted through an electronic survey with 23 Likert- scale type questions, and four open-ended responses. It is anticipated that the results will provide insight into the correlation between the knowledge possessed by the stakeholders and their perceived impact on Restorative Practices as well as the mor productive strategies and effects of implementation and insight into how schools can improve implementation at their schools.
Completion Date
2024
Semester
Summer
Committee Chair
Moore, Sheila
Degree
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
College
College of Community Innovation and Education
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
DP0028629
URL
https://purls.library.ucf.edu/go/DP0028629
Language
English
Rights
In copyright
Release Date
August 2024
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
Campus Location
Orlando (Main) Campus
STARS Citation
Tomasi, Courtney E., "The Perceived Impact of Restorative Practice Implementation on Exclusionary Discipline Practicce and the Role of School Administrators on the Effectiveness of Implementation" (2024). Graduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024. 426.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2023/426
Accessibility Status
Meets minimum standards for ETDs/HUTs