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The Teacher Regulation Branch is the provincial body responsible for regulating teachers in British Columbia. The branch establishes professional standards for educators, issues teaching certificates, and investigates complaints about teacher conduct. Its role is to ensure that teachers meet professional and ethical expectations within the education system. When concerns are raised about a teacher’s behaviour or professional practice, the branch may review the complaint and determine whether further investigation or disciplinary action is appropriate.

This page addresses punitive discipline and behaviour management practices in BC schools, and specifically their impact on disabled and neurodivergent children, who bear a disproportionate share of their harm. When a school applies a behaviour system to a disabled child without…

Exclusion takes many forms in BC schools, and most of them have been given names designed to obscure what they are. A “gradual entry plan” is a partial schedule. A “room clear” is the isolation of a disabled child in an…