Bernews

Youth Leaders Learn Restorative Practices

Mirrors Bermuda, in collaboration with the Youth Mental Health Advisory Board and CURB, hosted Bermuda’s first youth-focused ...
Brattleboro Reformer

New training curriculum in Restorative Justice

Restorative Community Justices of Southern Vermont is hosting weekly trainings via Zoom. Topics range from introductory Restorative Justice concepts, non-violent communication, equity and antiracism ...
EdSource

Let’s fully fund restorative justice — because it works

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room 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 ...
The Hechinger Report

Restorative circles, online wellness rooms and grief training: How schools are preparing for the Covid mental health crisis

A Dallas student reads from a book designed to provide social-emotional skills. The Dallas Independent School District invests in social-emotional learning and is hiring more than 50 clinicians to ...
Boston College

Restorative Practices

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 ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Restorative practices uphold school community at Bellows Falls Middle School

BELLOWS FALLS — With the world buzzing outside their meeting room window, a group of Bellows Falls Middle School students were laser-focused on the adults in the room. Staff Keri Newton, the ...
AOL

How restorative justice works at a MPS school, a decade in

On a winter Monday morning at Audubon High School in Milwaukee, three ninth-graders huddled and fussed over an egg named Billy Bob. Amber Sengsourisack used a marker to draw the egg’s anxious facial ...
Lawrence Journal-World

After rollout of restorative justice in middle and high schools, school district to expand method to elementary schools

The vast majority of the behavior issues at Lawrence middle and high schools are now dealt with using restorative justice practices, and the school district is planning to expand the discipline ...
EdSource

LAUSD celebrates 10 years of restorative justice, but progress remains uneven

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room This May, the Los Angeles Unified School District celebrated the 10th anniversary of the School Climate Bill of Rights — a resolution that ...
Marin Independent Journal

Marin schools lean on ‘restorative justice’ in difficult era

Don Carney knew when he got the word from Marin County Superior Court Judge Beverly Wood that a big test was on the horizon. “Everyone would like to give restorative justice a chance here,” Wood wrote ...
The Washington Post

Restorative circles, online wellness rooms and grief training: How schools are preparing for the coronavirus mental health crisis

The calls started at 6 a.m., and Patrick McCauley was ready, having retreated to the privacy of his garage, where he sat waiting for Angelenos to share how they are coping with the stresses of the ...