Dignity in Schools Campaign Pushout Assessment Checklist & Campaign Development Guide

This school pushout assessment and campaign development guide is a companion tool to Dignity in Schools Campaign’s Model Code on Education and Dignity and Youth Participatory Action Research Project. This checklist tool provides a framework for individuals and groups working in schools to assess school policies and practices around discipline, safety, curriculum, logistics, staffing, and other processes to prevent young people from being pushed out of schools and into the juvenile legal system. 

From the resource:  

“This checklist tool is based on those interviews and recommendations of the students. You can use it to assess your school (or school district) on whether or not it has each of the risk factors for school pushout and determine what if any positive infrastructure and practices exist that can be built upon. Once you know exactly what needs to change, the tool will show you how to use the Dignity in Schools Campaign Model Code on Education and Dignity to select model policies that will help address the issues you are facing. You can then use the facilitation and campaign tools to go from what may be a long list of things you want to change, to a focused list of  

demands with the specific policies you want to see in place. This tool is also meant to be adaptable to where you are in your campaign or advocacy work, so if you already have a good sense of what the problems are, you can go directly to step two or three to move into the solutions and campaign planning phase. The timeline is adaptable as well, so an individual could go through the whole process relatively quickly, or a group could move through the steps in-depth over several months.”