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District outlines grant-funded work to reduce student restraint and isolation
Summary
District staff described a grant-supported program that brought Continuum Consulting and LSCI training on campus, used rubric-based reviews of practices, and plans to use grant funds for leadership retreats and paraeducator training to reduce restraint and isolation.
District leaders described a grant-funded project to reduce student restraint and isolation and the training and supports now in place.
Presenters said the district worked with Continuum Consulting and incorporated Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) approaches and restorative practices. Staff described classroom observations, rubric-based self-scoring, on-campus trainings for administrators and paraeducators, and follow-up planning to integrate research-based practices into building-level leadership retreats.
Angie Hawkins (special education) and school leaders said the work focused on building staff capacity so that restraint or isolation would be a last resort. The district plans to use grant funds to support a leadership retreat and onboarding for two new leaders (a director of special education and a new elementary principal) to integrate RREI research findings into district systems.
A community member who had worked as a paraeducator urged the district to extend Right Response and de-escalation training to substitute paraeducators; staff responded that the district identifies frequent substitute paraeducators and offers initial and renewal Right Response training to that pool.
District staff said they will continue to scale training, track restraint/isolation incidents, and align leadership-team work with grant requirements. No policy changes or votes were taken at the workshop.
