Jeffrey Benson, "Hacking School Discipline Together" (Times Ten Publications, 2024)

Mar 22, 2024

Hacking School Discipline Together

10 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Schoolwide Restorative Justice

Jeffrey Benson

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec

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Summary

Jeffrey Benson’s Hacking School Discipline Together (Times Ten Publications, 2024) follows in footsteps first hacked out by Weinstein and Maynard in their 2019 bestselling Hacking School Discipline. Benson, informed by his 40 years of teaching, directing, mentoring, and consulting, takes the discussion to the broader school community. This book offers an effective elixir, distilled from experiences and best practices of Benson’s career. The formula is ten hacks in the form ten very readable chapters and that every teacher and administrator can start using tomorrow. Benson knows how to build community, establish systems, and create the environment where teachers teach and students study, and no time (or minimal time) is lost to the distractions of discipline problems.

This is Jeffrey Benson’s fifth book and follows his recent Improve Every Lesson Plan with SEL which focused on classroom practices (and was also an NBN discussion on the New Books in Education). This time, Benson thinks about these questions from the perspective of the administrator and teacher-leader, asking (and answering) how the whole school can affect the whole student.

Jeffrey Benson’s website
Jeffrey Benson’s Hacking School Discipline from Times Ten Publications, available on Amazon.com
All of Jeffery Benson’s books on Amazon.com
Jeffrey Benson’s previous NBE interview

Krzysztof (Chris) Odyniec is a teacher and historian who has worked in secondary and post-secondary education for fifteen years. He currently teaches social studies at John Swett High School in Crockett, California.