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The Discipline Game Plan: How Admin Teams Reduce Referrals and Raise Results

The key systems, frameworks, and tools from today's session — in one downloadable reference your entire team can implement this week.

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Presented by Dr. Thomas W. Glanton, Jr., Ed.D. · 30+ Years in K–12 Education · Former Area Superintendent · Georgia PTA Most Outstanding Principal

The core problem

Most admin teams are working hard.
They are not working from the same plan.

Referral rates don't spike because of bad students. They spike because the administrative team has no shared system — no common language, no aligned response, and no structure that holds when the pressure builds.

Today's session gave your team a game plan. These slides are the playbook to bring back to your building.

System Gap 01

No shared administrative response

Two administrators handling the same offense differently on the same day is not a coincidence — it is a systems failure that students exploit daily.

System Gap 02

Discipline is reactive, not proactive

Admin teams that spend their days absorbing referrals instead of preventing them are running a system that guarantees exhaustion and zero progress.

System Gap 03

No monitoring or accountability loop

Without a weekly data review and a formal check-in structure, drift is invisible until it becomes a crisis no one saw coming.

System Gap 04

Staff manages around leadership

When teachers stop writing referrals because they expect no follow-through, the system has already failed — and the data is lying to you.

Discipline doesn't fail because of bad students. It fails because the adults in the building are not playing from the same playbook.

— Dr. Thomas W. Glanton, Jr., Ed.D. · The Education Company

What's in the slides

Eight frameworks. All immediately actionable.

These are the key slides from today's session — the ones worth sharing with your entire admin team.

The 3-System Breakdown™

The three structural failure points that silently collapse discipline in schools — and how to identify which one you have.

The Administrative Support System

How the admin team functions as a unified unit — same language, same response, same result every time.

The 12 Howitzers™

Twelve administrative intervention tools matched to specific behavior patterns — from mild to severe.

The Accountability Loop™

A weekly monitoring structure that makes drift visible before it becomes a crisis.

Principal Probation

A structured consequence sequence for repeat offenders that produces results without suspension as the only tool.

Referral Data Analysis

How to read your own referral data to find the system failure — not blame the student or the teacher.

Staff Alignment Protocol

How to get every adult in your building responding consistently — without a full PD day or another mandatory meeting.

30-Day Launch Checklist

What to do the week you get back. Sequenced, specific, and actionable from day one.

Proven
Results

East Central HS

604 → 84

Suspensions — one year.
Graduation: 52% → 77%.

Rio Hondo ISD — Texas

494 → 5

District-wide referrals.
Near-complete elimination.

Jackson Elementary

98%

Suspension reduction.
Same staff. Different system.

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Thomas Glanton, Ed.D. | President, The Education Company

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Most admin teams are working hard.They are not working from the same plan.