Describe one or two discipline policies in place in your classroom or at your school that adhere to the model discussed in this lesson. Have they been effective?

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One of my big discipline policies in my classroom is respect. I base that on the idea that we are all created in the image of God and have value and purpose. Everybody in the classroom needs to be treated with the dignity given to any human being. I model this by respecting students. No one has to earn respect. We respect each other because of our value in God’s eyes. Due to the fallen nature of man I try to show some grace. I have high expectations. I hold students to those expectations, but I also realize we are all human with a fallen nature, so we all make mistakes. My middle schoolers are in a very tough transition period of life. They are trying to figure some things out that need to be experienced and lived out for some reason. I try to get in the head of a middles schooler and treat them how I would want treated.
The relief of time will only tell on some things, but I think the students buy in to some extent, at least in my classroom. I think students need reminded a lot. We all forget. We all mess up. We all lose steam sometimes. I try to constantly be reading where my students are.

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I have discussed these policies at length in previous responses. Students are responsible for telling on themselves and accountable for their own actions, there are consequences for wrong choices and they have to physically give back tokens that were received as rewards.
Restorative discipline circle time is used to bring the child back into the group after an offence has been made involving the classroom or individual classmate.