THE “HEART” OF DISCIPLINE
Sharon Flynn- sflynn@sewanhaka.k12.ny.us
John Kenny- jkenny@sewanhaka.k12.ny.us
Assistant Principals
H. Frank Carey High School
Franklin Square, NY
“When you turn over rocks and look at all the
squiggly things underneath, you can either
put down the rock, or you can say, ‘My job is
to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly
things,’ even if what you see can scare the hell
out of you.”
- Fred Purdue, Pitney Bowes Executive
excerpt from Good to Great by Jim Collins
The “Clean-up” Stage
Year One
Year Two
Year Three
 42
Superintendent
Suspensions (38
drug/alcohol
related)
 37
Superintendent
Suspensions (30
drug/alcohol
related)
 26
Superintendent
Suspensions (22
drug/alcohol
related)
2012-2013 = 9 Superintendent Suspensions
(0 drug/alcohol related)
Juan Huertas,
11th grade student
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“Two roads diverged in a wood…” (and we
took both…)
Students
Staff
Change the mindset. Change the culture. Share a vision.
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Bag of Tricks
 Find ways to motivate, inspire,
“light a fire”
 Set the table for positivism
 Example: “What I Learned from
Ronald Reagan”
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“Whatever It Takes…”
Staff Development
“The X Files”
Would you (feel, treat, react,
think) differently if you
knew…?
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“Touch the Heart, Then Teach the Child.”
Whose children are these?
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Whose children are these, who daily walk through
the front doors of our school?
Ours, Mine, Theirs
Family Ties
Case Study
Peter Rapp
Meet Our New Transfer Student…
What if he was yours?…
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TEST GRADES: 92, 84, 0,
79
QUIZ GRADES: 0, 0, 90, 0,
86
Homework Missing: 9
Absent Excused: 3
Absent Unexcused: 14
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MP1 Report Card Grade:
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50
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Comments on Report Card:
- Well Mannered and
Respectful
- Frequently Absent from
Class
-Absences/Cuts Impacting
Grades
- Parent Conference
Requested
In case you were wondering…
- Psychology Award
- Chemistry Award
- PRIDE Award
So…
What have you
learned from
Peter?
 What message
was he trying to
convey to you (or
anyone who
would listen)?
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“There was no single defining action, no grand program, no one
killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle moment.
Rather, the process resembled relentlessly pushing a giant heavy
flywheel in one direction, turn by turn, building momentum until
a point of breakthrough, and beyond.”
- Jim Collins, Good to Great
Bibliography
Collins, James C. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap--and Others
Don't. New York, NY: Harper Business, 2001. Print.
Frost, Robert, and Louis Untermeyer. The Road Not Taken; an Introduction to
Robert Frost. New York: Holt, 1951. Print.
McCourt, Frank. Teacher Man: A Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2005. Print.
Robinson, Peter. How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life. New York: Regan, 2003.
Print.
Whitaker, Todd. What Great Teachers Do Differently: Fourteen Things That Matter
Most. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2004. Print.