Outline of the state of North Carolina
State
North Carolina
Encouraged

Category
Multi-tiered Positive Behavior Supports

Category
Multi-tiered Positive Behavior Supports

State law encourages districts to implement school-wide positive behavioral interventions or tiered frameworks.

Integrated Academic & Behavior Systems

Site addresses use of positive behavioral supports with tiered interventions to communicate and reinforce behavioral expectations and provide selective and intensive interventions.

Policy Type
Non-codified

North Carolina General Statutes 115C-390.2 Discipline policies.

(k) School officials are encouraged to use a full range of responses to violations of disciplinary rules, such as conferences, counseling, peer mediation, behavior contracts, instruction in conflict resolution and anger management, detention, academic interventions, community service, and other similar tools that do not remove a student from the classroom or school building.

Policy Type
Statute

North Carolina General Statutes 115C-81.15. Conflict resolution and mediation models

The State Board of Education shall develop a list of recommended conflict resolution and mediation materials, models, and curricula that address responsible decision making, the causes and effects of school violence and harassment, cultural diversity, and nonviolent methods for resolving conflict, including peer mediation, and shall make the list available to local school administrative units and school buildings. In developing this list, the Board shall emphasize materials, models, and curricula that currently are being used in North Carolina and that the Board determines to be effective. The Board shall include at least one model that includes instruction and guidance for the voluntary implementation of peer mediation programs and one model that provides instruction and guidance for teachers concerning the integration of conflict resolution and mediation lessons into the existing classroom curriculum.

Policy Type
Statute