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Our diversifying high school in northern Colorado is navigating community fractures through the implementation of restorative practices, approaches aimed at building relationships and responding to ...

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Restorative practices promote the creation of spaces of trust and respect, with members of the campus community coming together for difficult conversations, deep listening, and restorative dialogue ...

This article has been adapted from the book Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar. As a rising call to close prisons and reduce prison population takes hold, skeptics continually ask what will ...

When it was time to return to school in person for her junior year, Kimberly Higareda was resistant. She had gotten used to being at home, multitasking while attending her Zoom classes and having time ...

It’s hard to overstate the influence of school on a student’s social-emotional development. Outside of their immediate family, a student will spend most of their life among a teacher and classmates.

Sixth grade teacher Vicki Rotker leads a “community circle” at Kingsview Middle School in Germantown, Maryland. The school is part of the Montgomery County district, which is introducing restorative ...

Restorative Justice and Lived Religion is the fruit of an activist-­scholar’s immersive tutoring by restorative justice organizations in Chicago. Jason Springs, who teaches religion, ethics, and peace ...

As schools face rising behavioral challenges, debates rage on about restorative justice, which rejects traditional, punitive discipline in favor of relationship-based work to address underlying causes ...

With just two words, a classroom can be thrown into chaos. Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student ...