As School Head and academic leader, consider taking a more systematic approach to your student discipline records. When a child misbehaves, school administrators tend to attribute his or her behavior to situational factors at home or within their peer relationships. Repeated misbehavior points to a dispositional issue. Data, however, can show patterns in students’ behavior that reveal that the school environment has a tremendous influence on student behavior. It is clear from ISM visits to hundreds of schools that both Division Heads and their faculty are not mining their discipline records for information to determine policy, process, and direction. Often, it is hard for schools to even locate discipline records that are stored in any methodical and intentional way. Yet discipline (both academic and behavioral) can be telling indicators in your divisions.