http://www.restorativejustice.org Articles discussing the use of restorative practices in individual cases. daily 1 2009-02-23T23:01:44Z http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/Streethouse%20atricle.pdf Streethouse Junior and Infants is a small community school situated within an exmining, rural village in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The children who attend are from the surrounding area that is believed to have a high depravation level and a history of deep rooted problems with drug and alcohol abuse. The school caters for children from 3 years old up to 11 years old when they transfer to either of two local high schools. After practicing SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) for six years the staff and governors decided to adopt a whole school approach to restorative practice to enhance their existing school practices for behaviour management. [from the article] No publisher dvanness School Country:England&Wales Story Region: Europe 2011-11-21T00:48:48Z File http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/restorative-practice-how-young-can-we-go from the article by Charlotte Clerehugh: ...Three boys (aged 5 and 6) admitted collecting rocks from the perimeter of the school field and throwing them through the fence at staff cars. The two members of staff, whose cars were damaged, were very angry. Initial discussions took place with them and myself, (as Head Teacher) as to how to deal with the problem. It was apparent that the feeling was that the boys needed to be made aware that their behaviour had consequences, and exclusion was mentioned several times. However, as a school that had been implementing restorative practices over the last 18 months, staff soon realised that to simply exclude, in this situation, would go against everything we believed in. No publisher dvanness School Country:England&Wales Story 2011-11-21T00:51:46Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/givin-them-kids-all-the-power.-whats-next-no-discipline-no-obedience-no...fist-fights from the blog entry by Savannah Iverson on Restorative Justice Colorado: What you're about to read in this blog article, is a little about how I have changed over the past year, after joining the Restorative Justice (RJ) student team. I joined the team the summer before freshman year.First though, let me give a brief description of the Longmont High School RJ Team. We are a team of roughly 20 student facilitators that practice Restorative Justice in 3 schools in the SVVSD. It’s a program run by student facilitators for students in conflict. No publisher dvanness Story School Region: North America and Caribbean Country:USA 2011-11-09T00:02:11Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/letter-restorative-justice-program-a-valuable-resource from the letter by Conor B. Stott in Oregon Daily Emerald: Every day at this University I am constantly discovering new opportunities and programs available to us students. Last spring, after an unfortunate incident on campus caused by my friend and me, we had the opportunity to redeem our actions through the Restorative Justice Program at the University. At the time, I knew absolutely nothing about this program, and I am sure most students are currently unaware of what restorative justice is and how it works. The Restorative Justice Program is a group effort between Conflict Resolution Services and the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards to resolve students’ infractions against the University in a manner that caters to the needs and wishes of both parties involved. No publisher dvanness Policy School Story 2011-05-10T13:26:10Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/the-salvation-army-and-restorative-justice from the article in The Dignity Project: “I will never forget my first brush with injustice” says Matt Delaney. “I was so hurt. I wanted pay back. I wanted to retaliate, to return the favour that I didn’t ask for. I did fight back. Strange though, after I unleashed my vengeance, all I felt was empty and alone. What was wrong with me? Where was the justice I was looking for? Why didn’t I feel justified? No publisher dvanness Conference School Practice Story Case:Violence Region: North America and Caribbean Country:Canada 2011-03-31T22:14:13Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/restorative-justice-and-cheating-in-class from Ben Chun's blog And Yet It Moves: Adventures in Teaching and Technology: I busted two kids for cheating in my AP Computer Science class today. What I didn’t know last night, while researching and documenting the way they cheated, is how much I would learn from that experience. ....I think in some circles Restorative Justice (RJ) has been presented as or labeled a “soft” solution that avoids actual punishment. But what I saw today was a much more satisfying solution to a the problem than an arbitrary and possibly ineffective punishment. As the dean and I stepped the two students (individually) through the process of answering the set of questions, I decided to throw in my own: “Are there any other cases, in this or any other class, where you crossed the line from research into academic dishonesty or plagiarism?” Now I’m not sure if the answer would have come out via another process, but I want to give some credit to RJ for helping one student admit that, yes, there were other classes in which this happened. No publisher dvanness School Story 2011-02-21T20:16:41Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/the-promise-of-restorative-justice-new-approaches-for-criminal-justice-and-beyond reviewed by Martin Wright It is becoming increasingly clear that the principles of restorative justice can be used, as the editors say, outside the formal criminal justice system, and this book bears witness to that. Half is about criminal justice, and half about other applications in schools and elsewhere. The contributors reflect the book’s origins among a group at Fresno Pacific University in California, but other chapters come from Bulgaria, Canada, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. No publisher dvanness School Victim Book Review Reform Practice Story System Correspondent:Martin Wright National Reconciliation Prison Policy Workplaces Other 2011-01-27T22:13:12Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/restorative-justice-school-program-reduces-student-delinquency from the press release announcing the study: A pilot program to change how teachers and administrators respond to student misbehavior at an Oakland middle school led to a dramatic drop in suspensions and expulsions, according to a new study released today. During a one-year implementation of the alternative “restorative justice” program, suspensions dropped by 87 percent and expulsions dropped to zero. No publisher dvanness Report School Evaluation Story 2010-12-16T17:40:38Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/press-room/04av/rjschoolsmapleton A high school student describes how participating in restorative justice changed her attitude and approach to school. Her principal describes the positive impacts of restorative justice on the school environment. No publisher lparker School Video Story 2010-10-26T18:27:44Z Google Video http://www.restorativejustice.org/press-room/04av/rjschoolsmontebello In this video, practitioners and a student explain the impact restorative practices had on the culture of Montbello High School in Longmont, CO. The suspensions and expulsions fell by 30%. No publisher lparker School Video Story 2010-10-26T17:40:44Z Google Video http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/201cbeyond-all-belief201d-2014-restorative-practices-at-st-edmund2019s-primary-school-norfolk-uk from the article by Lisa Cook posted on iirp.com: This is what restorative practices looks like at St Edmund’s [for children 3 to 11 years old]: When the children come in each morning they are quick to sort themselves into a circle. They are keen to get started. The class teacher starts off with a greeting. This is passed around the circle and varies depending on the age of the children. No publisher dvanness School Country:England&Wales Story Region: Europe 2010-09-06T17:07:45Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/rphungary From the Restorative E-Forum article by Laura Mirsky: In April 2010 Vidia Negrea, director of Community Service Foundation (CSF) Hungary, provided an introductory training in facilitating restorative conferences for four different youth group homes in Budapest. This is just the latest development in her work spreading restorative practices in Hungary, which also includes major efforts in schools and prisons. Psychologist Negrea came to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, in 2000 to learn about restorative practices and has never looked back. Her recent work has been supported by the Ministry of Justice Hungary and the city of Budapest, including a project to reduce aggressive behavior in children and youth, which is bringing restorative practices to six big-city high schools. At first some of the leaders in these high schools weren’t open to the idea of restorative practices. The success of the practices in the wake of one particular incident changed their minds. No publisher lparker Country:Hungary School Story Region: Europe Teacher 2010-05-17T01:09:44Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/rjandcollegeconductprocesses In March, Eastern Mennonite University hosted a symposium exploring the use of restorative practices in college campus conduct administration. These short YouTube videos feature two of the participants describing their experiences with using restorative practices to respond to student misconduct. Josh Bacon, the director of Judicial Affairs at James Madison University in Virginia, describes how implementing restorative practices rejuvenated his career.It gives him the opportunity to interact with students and community members. No publisher lparker Story School Video Region: North America and Caribbean Policy Country:USA 2010-05-10T23:03:27Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/restorative-justice-stops-fights-keeps-kids-in-schools from Nelson Garcia's article on 9News.com: Juan Salazar used to be one of those students who got into trouble for fighting at North High School. Now he uses words instead of fists. "If someone bumped into me, I started saying something," Salazar, a senior, said. "It always led to a fight." It also always led to a suspension. No publisher dvanness Story School Region: North America and Caribbean Country:USA 2010-03-08T03:50:11Z News Item http://www.restorativejustice.org/RJOB/st-ritas-college-clayfield-rocked-by-cheating-scandal From Tanya Chilcott's article in Courier-Mail: A leading Brisbane private girls' school has been rocked by a cheating scandal after a group of students was caught just weeks before graduation. St Rita's College principal Dale Morrow said the incident, the first of its kind in her eight years at the Clayfield school, had been "a very difficult" time for all involved..... ....It is understood one girl attained the answers from a teacher's computer and passed them on. No publisher dvanness School Story 2009-10-19T15:36:34Z News Item