Restorative Justice is an alternative to Zero tolerance

Here’s a brief video from a conference in Florida. I’m hearing the same things from educators here in California: Zero Tolerance policies create as many or more problems than they solve. We have to find a better way. Restorative Practices are perhaps the most promising alternative we have.

Learning Objectives for the Big Lessons, Part 1

If moments of conflict are teachable moments;If times of trouble are we learn the big lessons; Then it stands to reason that we should be very clear about our teaching and learning goals for these moments. What exactly is it that we want students to know and be able to do when faced with a [...]

Continuum of Restorative Practices

My first nine months here have been an intensive study of the forms of restorative practice. I’ve been asking a lot of questions. Three that were particular important in the first months I was here were: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? How’s it going? I think of the practice of asking [...]