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Building Restorative Justice Practitioner Consensus for Better Student Health

10/18/2018
Building Restorative Justice Practitioner Consensus for Better Student Health

This report from the Restorative Schools Vision Project collects research and experiences from nearly 200 Restorative Justice practitioners across California to identify core concepts and supportive practices for the school environment. The report addresses implementation strategies along with enabling factors… More

Demanding Dignity in Our Schools: Calling for Full Implementation of SWPBIS in LAUSD South LA Schools

7/30/2018
Demanding Dignity in Our Schools: Calling for Full Implementation of SWPBIS in LAUSD South LA Schools

This report from Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE), Public Counsel Law Center and Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. reviews Los Angelse Unified School District (LAUSD) discipline data for the 2009-2010 through 2011-2012 school years, along with implementation of School-Wide Positive… More

TX School Safety Center – Thinking About the School to Prison Pipeline

7/16/2018
TX School Safety Center – Thinking About the School to Prison Pipeline

This Texas school Safety Center resource argues for use of current knowledge as a guide toward optimum outcomes for all evidence -based decision making to determine a course of action to battle the STPP trajectory. More

Victor Rios TED Talk: Help for Kids the System Ignores

7/16/2018
Victor Rios TED Talk: Help for Kids the System Ignores

What if one were born without straps on one’s boots---how can one pull oneself up by the bootstraps? As a child VR experienced and overcame pushout and university probation. The talk focuses defining students by what they contribute, not what… More

EdJustice: Freeing Schools from the School to Prison Pipeline

6/13/2018
EdJustice: Freeing Schools from the School to Prison Pipeline

In this 2015 strategy report, educators share strategies for keeping kids in the classroom and out of the courtroom. It includes accounts from impacted students, parents and school staff who've utilized creative methods to forge sustainable change in dismantling the… More

Teachers Unite: Validus Preparatory Academy

6/13/2018
Teachers Unite: Validus Preparatory Academy

This Teachers United toolkit offers many resources for Fairness Committee/ Academic Intervention Circle (for students at risk of not graduating)—from the big picture thinking about school policy and philosophy around use of Restorative Justice to practical resources like Fairness Protocol… More

Teachers Unite: Flushing International High School

6/13/2018
Teachers Unite: Flushing International High School

This toolkit includes an introduction to Restorative Practices, sample Community Principles, a menu of Restorative Justice options, varieties of community circles, useful documents to record Circles and Fairness Committees, a reflection sheet for students to fill out, and a Mediation… More

Teachers Unite: Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders

6/13/2018
Teachers Unite: Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders

This newly updated toolkit includes information about the peer mediation and the restorative justice circle process at the school, including scripts for preparing with participants before a circle. More

Teachers Unite: James Baldwin School Toolkit

6/13/2018
Teachers Unite: James Baldwin School Toolkit

This updated toolkit includes protocols, tools, and classroom materials for several kinds of restorative practices used at Baldwin, including circles, core values, fairness committees, and classroom re-entry circles. There's also a tool for planning for growing restorative justice practices in… More

Center for Restorative Practices – Teaching Restorative Practices with Classroom Circles

6/13/2018
Center for Restorative Practices – Teaching Restorative Practices with Classroom Circles

This manual supports the teaching of restorative practices and skills in the classroom setting. It substantiates that restorative practices are a framework for building community and responding to challenging behavior through authentic dialogue, coming to understanding and making things right. More

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