Restorative Discipline Should Be Common Practice to Lower Student and Teacher Dropout Rate
Restorative Discipline Should Be Common Practice to Lower Student and Teacher Dropout Rate
Restorative Discipline Should Be Common Practice to Lower Student and Teacher Dropout Rate
Circles are an important part of restorative practices. They are used in prosocial ways to build a learning community. They can be used as an academic tool to help deliver and process curriculum and content. They are also used in… Read More »Beyond Circles: Five Other Restorative Practices For Schools
Check out the newest Trauma Matters Newsletter which has an article I co-authored with my good friend, Aili Arisco on Exposure to Violence in the Media and how it affects our ability to empathize.
If you are working to implement restorative practices in your school or youth focused organization, one of the many informal practices you may have learned is using “affective statements.” I agree that affective statements can be a powerful way of… Read More »Making “Affective Statements” More Effective in Restorative Practices
When Traditional Discipline in School Doesn’t Work, Restorative Justice Can
Love this video. Please watch.
On August 27th of 2014, I was invited by the software giant, IdeaScale to present a webinar on Empathy and Innovation. How do companies, businesses, nonprofits, even clinical staff create work environments that bring out the best in people? This… Read More »Creating a Culture of Innovation: Communication Strategies for Innovation
Contains an interview with Joe Brummer as well as other peacemakers working with youth in the New Haven, CT area.
Contains an interview with Joe Brummer as well as other peacemakers working with youth in the New Haven, CT area.
Check out this great article on Restorative Practices: All across the country, schools that institute restorative justice?—?including the Boston Public Schools?—?are seeing massive reductions in suspension and dropout rates; in some cases, they’re even seeing improved test scores. Although our school… Read More »Another Great article on RJ from the Boston Globe