Progressive Discipline

1. Progressive Discipline

2. Definition
According to Operational Procedure PR 702 written by the Toronto
District School Board, Progressive Discipline is a whole-school
approach that utilizes a continuum of interventions, supports, and
consequences to address inappropriate student behavior and to build
upon strategies that promotes positive behaviors.

3. Progressive discipline is part of a broader shift towards “progressive”
forms of schooling in general. To place progressive education within a
sociological context, Davies (2002) discussion of progressive ideology
within educational reform is helpful. Recognizing a lack of a precise
definition, Davies describes:

4. The core [of progressive education] consists of a belief in active, individualized,
child-centered education that is aimed at the whole child”…”most progressives
advocate a more differentiated and holistic curricula that moves beyond the basics
to meet children‘s social, emotional, psychological, and biological needs. (2002,
p.271)

5. Stages of Progressive Discipline
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1. Milne, Emily. Loosely cultivating discipline: From zero tolerance to progressive discipline in an Ontario School board. Diss. 2011.

7. References
Davies, S. (2002). The Paradox of Progressive Education: A Frame Analysis. Sociology of Education, 75(4),
269. doi:10.2307/3090279
Milne, E. (2011). Loosely cultivating discipline: From zero tolerance to progressive discipline in an Ontario
School board (Doctoral dissertation).