Session 20. Difficult Conversations: Using Referral Data to Begin the Journey…

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This presentation will explore data on inequities in discipline referral rates for minority high school students. The data reflect a much higher referral rate for African-Americans as compared with other minority groups. This session will explore the reasons why this discrepancy occurs, specifically at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Oregon. We also will formulate a series of provocative questions that will stimulate discussion centered on all-staff professional development needs as a system-wide commitment to affecting a change for students at Benson. The goal of this session is to consider ways to make discipline referral rates better match ethnic student population.

Presenters:
Jolynn Horn, OK State Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma City, OK

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