A New Approach to Discipline Slashed Suspension Rates and Transformed This DC School
October 11, 2019
By: Emily Tate
Source: Ed Surge
WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. By that point, Gunter had been teaching in D.C. Public Schools for six years, and she felt she’d hit her stride in the classroom.
Then the new school year started.
From day one at Langley, a Title I school in northeast D.C., Gunter felt like she had no control over the students under her supervision. They were apathetic about their school work, disconnected from her and from one another and, not infrequently, combative.