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It’s not like, Okay, we’ve started this process, and everything’s gonna go great, and we won’t change anything. Restorative justice, and the practices respond to the national and global landscape and the local landscape. And so we need to be adaptive as we develop our restorative practices on our campus to respond to the things that our students or in our community members are interacting with, right, whether that’s right here in our hometown, or across the globe, right? I mean, I think there’s lots of opportunity for healing thinking about the impacts of the pandemic, right, you’re just as a place to start, right?
- In the boarding house, all conflicts are dealt with restoratively – by focusing on the harm caused and by recognising the girls need to learn ways to live well with one another.
- ELL educator Christine Rowland notes, “Many students find involvement in school clubs and teams to be extremely helpful, as they are often experts in these areas, and they can provide a space where they more easily feel they belong.”
- And so I think that also kind of echoes what Jessi was just saying no to around, like, you know, so a lot of practitioners, and I’m sort of in that camp of like, if you’re not really doing the proactive work, then doing it responsive work is not going to be as effective.
- And I think, you know, Valerie was kind of alluding to in that in that in that conversation, or that part earlier was really that right?
- Or we have to separate you from housing, if you can still remain a student, let’s look at what does that look like?
Implicitly model a problem-solving stance in classroom interactions and in the way you teach. Fairholme College in Toowoomba has been using restorative justice proactively for more than 15 years. Can I jump in for Welcoming Accountable Voices In Education a second and just echo that Desirée? I think that’s so beautiful, because when we said with a student who’s reentering the community in a circle, it’s a visual representation of their circle network, right.
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And so I think that also kind of echoes what Jessi was just saying no to around, like, you know, so a lot of practitioners, and I’m sort of in that camp of like, if you’re not really doing the proactive work, then doing it responsive work is not going to be as effective. For me when I really think about the complexities of restorative justice, when I’m really thinking about is how holistically Are we really thinking about how we’re integrating this stuff? Because when we talk about the Justice aspect of it, right, there’s all of these things that have to be happening kind of simultaneously, justice to to be taking place. And I think beyond that, sometimes what happens is people see like, oh, restorative justice, that’s this is fun, right?
- It was interesting to hear just how small things can make such a huge difference in making new ELL students feel more comfortable.
- Proactive approaches to restorative justice look different from school to school, it is not a cookie cutter technique.
- Learn about these important first steps from teacher Amber Jimenez that will help ELLs feel welcome and get them on the path to academic success.
- I can’t image what these kids must feel and be going through.
- That is something we could do easily to take a load of stress off the student.
- I agree that creating a welcoming classroom by the school and the homeroom teacher is extremely important.
Students and their parents participate in setting learning goals and take part in decisions that affect them. And school staff have the training, support, flexibility, and resources to nurture, encourage, and respond to the needs of all students. Keith (he/him/his) helps individuals, organizations, and communities https://www.wave-accounting.net/ to realize their fullest potential. His research, writing, and speaking have received national awards and recognition. His TEDx Talk on Ending Rape has been viewed around the world. He is co-editor ofAddressing Sexual Violence in Higher Educationand co-author of The Curricular Approach to Student Affairs.
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Yes, Valerie kind of opened the door, kind of what I want to touch on was the academic side. And so my previous role as a Director of Student Conduct at Long Beach State, and a lot of our work was on classroom management with faculty who are just like this helped me manage his classroom. And so I started working with them on basically creating community standards, which is part of restorative practice. And they said, well, rules, is it No, these are not rules. This is community agreements that the entire class is going to agree to do for the entire for the entire semester.