Mary Hrabak and Doris Settles in Effective In-School Suspension Programs argue that successful ISS programs reduce rule infractions, encourage poor students to work harder, and help ISS students learn problem solving and conflict resolution skills. Keep the student-teacher ratio low, employ tutors, require teachers to send current assignments each day, provide counseling on behavior identification and replacement, and keep files to track student behavior and follow up with teachers. Be constructive not punitive. The first step is to help the student to understand why s/he is suspended. Worksheets are provided at the end of the this article to help with this task. A workshop/portfolio approach (teacher and student write together) using prompts and a checklist of writing strategies to create an essay about the suspension event is suggested to help the student reflect on choices and behaviors.
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