A core principle of restorative practices is that they are most effective when used before any conflict has occurred.

Kevin Jones and Suzanne Montoya wrote about a collaboration with Rev. Brigitte Black and the Bloomington chapter of Not in Our Town implementing listening circles in 2020. Their chapter is part of an ...

Restorative justice is rooted in an empathetic, comprehensive and more solution-based approach to addressing criminal behavior.

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Renee Thomas is a 25-year middle school U.S. history teacher, restorative community lead and ...

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 ...

There’s a familiar, frustrating tension between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, there are yawning gaps between the views from ...

Restorative justice (RJ) is an alternative to the isolating, stigmatizing, and traumatizing nature of our punitive criminal justice system. Indigenous and Native nations have practiced restorative ...

Howard Zehr on his role in restorative justice movements and the philosophies’ indigenous roots. Howard Zehr, often called the “grandfather” of restorative justice, speaks about his role in the ...

I read that statement, took a deep breath, and read the names of the five men. My heart sank. I know all five of them. I regularly talk with three of the men. One of the men is a dear friend. Our ...

At the end of 2023, the San Francisco district attorney’s office lost out on $3 million in potential restorative justice funds from the philanthropic foundation Crankstart, according to documents ...

Following the Clio Hall sit-in that ended in 13 student arrests, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 sent a campus-wide email stating that the University was “exploring offering students ...