2025 Tennessee Educator Survey Snapshot: Student Discipline

The 2025 Tennessee Educator Survey Snapshots offer quick, accessible insights from educators on some of the most important issues in our schools—including artificial intelligence, cell phone policies, student discipline, match curriculum and supports, career and technical education, early career teachers, and teacher evaluation and retention. These one-pagers highlight what teachers are seeing and experiencing right now, providing valuable perspective to inform conversations about policy and practice across the state.

• Key Insight #1: Most teachers agree that student discipline is handled effectively in their schools.
• Key Insight #2: Early-career (teachers in their first three years) and elementary school teachers spend more time than non early-career and middle/high school teachers handling student behavioral and disciplinary issues.
• Key Insight #3: On average, administrators report spending the largest percentage of their time on activities related to student discipline.