The district said in a statement that it made the decision to remove restorative practices from the handbook to "align the codes between the elementary and secondary levels as well as to ...

Restorative justice requires students and other participants to form a circle around the bully and victim when an incident occurs. The circle can be led by a teacher or peer student counselor.

What Are Restorative Practices?Restorative practices are practices learned from the larger Restorative Justice (RJ) movement with the intent of strengthening relationships, building community, and ...

The Unified School District Board of Education is expected to vote Tuesday on updates to its Restorative Discipline Policy, ...

What are restorative practices and what do they look like in schools? In Part One, Marie Moreno, Chandra Shaw, Angela M. Ward, and David Upegui shared their experiences.

But the “restorative practices” approach the school uses took educators in a different direction. They called the boy’s mother to work out a punishment that would be more fitting.

When restorative justice practice fails to restore justice, it cannot be called restorative, or justice. Another fallacy is that restorative justice is only used to “put out fires,” when students are ...

In Worcester, restorative practices appear to be working. Officials credit it with creating an atmosphere that led to a 28% ...