The Discipline of Discipline: Becoming Trauma Responsive
Jim Sporleder
"Outliers in Education" is a project of CEE, The Center for Educational Effectiveness. Find out more at effectiveness.org.
Produced by Howell at the Moon Productions.
The pioneering work of former principal Jim Sporleder was featured in the award-winning documentary "Paper Tigers" as he rolled out a different approach to discipline at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, Washington. The discoveries he made and the changes he witnessed became the foundations of his book, The Trauma-Informed School, and today he devotes all his energies to helping schools around the country become Trauma Responsive - places not only of learning, but of healing. In this episode, Sporleder explains why and how disciplinary policies and approaches across the nation must be changed.