A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill 274 expanding the prohibition of suspensions for low-level defiance behaviors ...

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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 ...

Maisha T. Winn is the daughter of African American studies scholar James Fisher, who taught at UC Davis from 1969 to 1974. With a father working at a university, she fondly remembers trips she and her ...

Last week at the Parent Coffee Hour at Beachmont School, caregivers participated in shaping school culture by experiencing and providing feedback on Restorative Practices, an approach that continues ...

Justice systems exist to respond to rule violations, yet violence does far more than break rules. It disrupts meaning, fractures identity, and weakens the sense of safety that allows individuals and ...

David Karp remembers a high school kid who walked into a martial arts studio, rifled through the jackets of the students, and stole someone’s wallet. He was arrested and put on probation, but there ...

Supporters are doubtful it'll pass this year, but they're hoping to generate more conversation about how the program could ...

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What is restorative justice?: How an inside-out class rewrote tragedy"Hamlet" has endured the ages, embodying timeless themes of the human condition. But what if its tragic ending — with every ...