Restoring Safe School Communities

Author : Brenda Morrison
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1862874778

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Restoring Safe School Communities: a whole school response to bullying,violence and alienation introduces a whole school approach to addressing the problems of bullying and violence in schools. Author Brenda Morrison proposes a continuum of responsive and restorative practices for building safe school communities. The first, most proactive, level of practices aims to develop all students' social and emotional competencies, to enable students to resolve their differences in caring and respectful ways. The second level of practices widens the circle of care around the participants. Typically this level of response occurs when the problem has become more protracted or has involved (and affected) a larger number of people, and involves other members of the school community stepping in to assist in the resolution of the conflict or concern. The third and final level of practices involves the participation of an even wider cross-section of the school community, including parents, guardians, social workers, and others who have been affected. This tertiary level of intervention is normally only used for serious incidents within the school. Morrison explains the thinking behind the suggested responses and shows how they can be implemented by practices such as a responsible citizen program and restorative justice circles and conferences.

Author : Lori Lynass,Bridget Walker,Erika McDowell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475874372

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Building Thriving School Communities Focused on Wellness and Equity by Leveraging MTSS by Lori Lynass,Bridget Walker,Erika McDowell Pdf

Schools across the nation are moving towards implementation of Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), which can be complicated to implement well. This user-friendly handbook aims to provide school and district leaders the tools to effectively implement MTSS. Leaders will understand what their unique role is in leading MTSS implementation.

Author : Nancy Riestenberg
Publisher : Living Justice Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781937141080

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Circle in the Square: Building Community and Repairing Harm in School by Nancy Riestenberg Pdf

Author : Richard Hendry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136850844

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Building and Restoring Respectful Relationships in Schools by Richard Hendry Pdf

Implementing 'Restorative Practice' in schools can offer powerful and effective methods of promoting harmonious relationships and resolving conflict. Restorative Practice helps disruptive pupils to take responsibility for their actions, understand the consequences of their behaviour and apologise to others. Through a whole-school approach school teachers and managers can help all children build healthy and respectful relationships with peers and teachers. Building and Restoring Respectful Relationships in Schools is a practical resource to help relieve the pressure on schools and education services by leading them to plan and implement restorative approaches in their day-to-day work. This innovative and informative book provides a comprehensive overview of the current range of restorative approaches in schools offers a clear framework and theoretical perspective for understanding the range of approaches gives practical examples and case studies to illustrate practice contains practical exercises and other useful resource materials is relevant to individual staff as well as whole schools and education services. Richard Hendry offers a vision for how our schools could be, if we are willing to embrace a ‘way of being’ that nurtures personal responsibility in a climate of mutual respect. As well as showing teachers how to reduce disruption and develop good relationships, this book is also about improving learning in schools and building skills for life. Building and Restoring Respectful Relationships in Schools is essential reading for all teachers, especially department and year heads, as well as headteachers, policy makers and researchers.

Author : Hilary Cremin,Terence Bevington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315304212

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Positive Peace in Schools by Hilary Cremin,Terence Bevington Pdf

Positive Peace in Schools offers a fresh and challenging perspective on the question of conflict, violence and peace in schools. Drawing on the most up-to-date theory and research from the field of peace and conflict studies, this book provides readers with a strong understanding of the concept of positive peace, and how the dimensions of peace-keeping, peace-making and peace-building can be robustly applied in schools. This accessible book challenges educators everywhere to reconsider the nature of direct and indirect violence in schools, and the structural and cultural factors that sustain it. It engages with global traditions of harmony and balance that are often neglected in Western notions of liberal securitised peace, in order to suggest a model for schools that integrates inner and outer peace. The book also includes practical sections that outline restorative approaches to discipline, peer mediation, circle learning, and classroom activities to promote mindfulness, inclusion and wellbeing. Taken together, these provide a philosophy and a highly effective framework for building conflict literacy and a culture of peace in schools.

Author : Nancy E. Dowd
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479832958

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Justice for Kids by Nancy E. Dowd Pdf

"An important book at an important time." —Choice "Remarkable and sobering. . . . Educators, policymakers, and advocates all should find this book as motivating as it is disturbing: for every reason it gives to despair about the current system, it also reveals a pathway toward a far less populated system of juvenile justice, one that actually helps children rather than harms them." —Daniel Losen, co-author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform Children and youth become involved with the juvenile justice system at a significant rate. While some children move just as quickly out of the system and go on to live productive lives as adults, other children become enmeshed in the system, developing deeper problems and at times introduced into the adult criminal justice system. Justice for Kids is a volume edited by leading academics and activists that focuses on ways to intervene at the earliest possible point to rehabilitate and redirect—to keep kids out of the system—rather than to punish and drive kids deeper. In the Families, Law, and Society series Contributors: Shay Bilchik, Brian R. Barber, Benjamin Cairns, David Domenici, Nancy E. Dowd, Jeffrey Fagan, James Forman, Jr., Joseph C. Gagnon, Theresa Glennon, Thalia N.C. González, Leslie Joan Harris, David R. Katner, KharyLazarre-White, Thomas A. Loughran, Thomas P. Mulvey, Kenneth B. Nunn, Vanessa Patino, Alex R. Piquero, Lawanda Ravoira, Stephen M. Reba, Sarah Valentine, Randee J. Waldman, and Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Nancy Dowd is Director of the Center for Children and Families at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law and holds the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law. She is the author of several books, most recently The Man Question: Male Subordination and Privilege (NYU Press).

Author : David Osher Ph.D.,Matthew J. Mayer,Robert J. Jagers,Kimberly Kendziora,Lacy Wood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798216107828

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Keeping Students Safe and Helping Them Thrive by David Osher Ph.D.,Matthew J. Mayer,Robert J. Jagers,Kimberly Kendziora,Lacy Wood Pdf

Details the safety, mental health, and wellness issues in schools today and focuses on the interactions and collaborations needed among students, teachers, families, community members, and other professionals to foster the safety, learning, and well-being of all students. Safe schools and student well-being take a "village" of adults and students with varied interests, perspectives, and abilities collaborating to create caring, supportive, and academically productive schools. Schools are unofficial mental health care providers for children and youth who are placed at risk by social and economic circumstances and whose un- and under addressed needs can compromise teaching and learning. This handbook provides up-to-date information on how to promote safety, wellness, and mental health in a manner that can help draw the needed "village" together. It aligns research and practice to support effective collaboration—it provides information and tools for educators, administrators, policy makers, mental health and community organizations, families, parents, and students to join forces to promote and support school safety, student well-being, and student mental health. Chapters address school context, the dynamic nature of school communities and child development, and the importance of diversity and equity. Chapters provide in-depth understanding of why and how to improve safety, well-being, and mental health in a culturally responsive manner. They provide strategies and tools for planning, monitoring, and implementing change, methods for collaborating, and policy and practice guidance. They provide examples of successful and promising cross-system and cross-stakeholder collaborations. This handbook will interest students, scholars, faculty, and researchers in education, counseling, and psychology; administrators in human services and youth development; policy makers; and student, family, and community representatives.

Author : Daniel J. Losen
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807773499

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Closing the School Discipline Gap by Daniel J. Losen Pdf

Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes. Part I explores how suspensions flow along the lines of race, gender, and disability status. Part II examines potential remedies that show great promise, including a district-wide approach in Cleveland, Ohio, aimed at social and emotional learning strategies. Closing the School Discipline Gap is a call for action that focuses on an area in which public schools can and should make powerful improvements, in a relatively short period of time. Contributors include Robert Balfanz, Jamilia Blake, Dewey Cornell, Jeremy D. Finn, Thalia González, Anne Gregory, Daniel J. Losen, David M. Osher, Russell J. Skiba, Ivory A. Toldson “Closing the School Discipline Gap can make an enormous difference in reducing disciplinary exclusions across the country. This book not only exposes unsound practices and their disparate impact on the historically disadvantaged, but provides educators, policymakers, and community advocates with an array of remedies that are proven effective or hold great promise. Educators, communities, and students alike can benefit from the promising interventions and well-grounded recommendations.” —Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University “For over four decades school discipline policies and practices in too many places have pushed children out of school, especially children of color. Closing the School Discipline Gap shows that adults have the power—and responsibility—to change school climates to better meet the needs of children. This volume is a call to action for policymakers, educators, parents, and students.” —Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund

Author : Margaret Thorsborne,Dave Vinegrad
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839970429

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The Continuum of Restorative Practices in Schools by Margaret Thorsborne,Dave Vinegrad Pdf

An instructional manual on restorative justice in schools from world-leading experts; this 'how to' guide offers guidance on the issues of carrying out restorative practices, including coping with day-to-day problems, and offers worksheets for practical daily use. Beginning with challenges to orthodox thinking about behaviour change, it goes on to describe a multitude of approaches to respond to minor incidents in school settings, then takes a close look at using restorative approaches to bullying, before it finally focuses on the formal end of the continuum (including conference preparation and facilitation). This book is reflective of the evolution of processes and responses from the most serious of incidents through to minor everyday issues, making this an essential resource for all school staff.

Author : Margaret Thorsborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351704199

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Restorative Practices and Bullying by Margaret Thorsborne Pdf

This book focuses on the needs of the community affected by bullying behaviour, rather than simply apportioning blame and deciding on punishment. It covers topics including: restorative justice and bullying; restorative responses to bullying incidents; and managing reluctance to face up to bullying.

Author : Gerry Johnstone,Daniel Van Ness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134015191

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Handbook of Restorative Justice by Gerry Johnstone,Daniel Van Ness Pdf

Discusses the key concepts and principles of restorative justice; explains how the campaign for restorative justice arose and developed into an influential social movement; describes the variety of restorative justice practices; and identifies and examines key issues within the restorative justice movement.

Author : Margaret Thorsborne,Peta Blood
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857007377

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Implementing Restorative Practice in Schools by Margaret Thorsborne,Peta Blood Pdf

Restorative practice is a proven approach to discipline in schools that favours relationships over retribution, and has been shown to improve behaviour and enhance teaching and learning outcomes. However, in order for it to work, restorative practice needs a relational school culture. Implementing Restorative Practice in Schools explains what has to happen in a school in order for it to become truly restorative. Section 1 explains the potential of restorative practice in schools, describing the positive outcomes for students and teachers. It also outlines the measures that need to be in place in order to embed restorative practice. Section 2 examines the process of understanding and managing change, providing realistic and pragmatic guidance on the practical and emotional barriers that may be encountered. Finally, Section 3 provides in eight practical steps, strategic guidance for achieving a restorative culture that sticks. Featuring useful pro formas and templates, this book will be an indispensable guide for educators, administrators and school leaders in mainstream and specialist settings.

Author : Gabriel Velez,Theo Gavrielides
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031131011

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Restorative Justice: Promoting Peace and Wellbeing by Gabriel Velez,Theo Gavrielides Pdf

This timely collection of chapters written by international experts bridges the gap between peace psychology and restorative justice. The Editors combined their respective fields of expertise to start a much-needed debate on the potential but also risks that are associated when implementing restorative justice in the peace psychology field. The volume highlights how psychological theory and research can inform and evaluate the potential of restorative practices in formal and informal educational settings as well as the criminal justice space. The chapters cover both negative and positive peace across levels while introducing the reader to various case studies from across the world. All in all, the book explores how restorative justice can promote positive peace through its connection fostering dialogue, empathy, forgiveness, and other key psychological elements of peace.

Author : Bill Hansberry
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781784502324

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A Practical Introduction to Restorative Practice in Schools by Bill Hansberry Pdf

Proven to reduce bad behaviour and exclusions, and encourage happier, safer school environments, restorative justice is an effective approach to conflict resolution. Suitable for education settings from preschool to college, this guide explains what restorative justice is, how it can be used in schools, what it looks like in the classroom and how it can be implemented. Featuring case studies that illuminate the underlying restorative principles and practices, this book covers a wide range of topics from the basics of restorative justice, through to school-wide processes for embedding the approach in policy and practice. Drawing on the expertise of educators and consultants, this is a must-have resource for any school or centre that is serious about reducing bad behaviour and developing safer learning communities.

Author : Bareham, Steve,B.C. Principals' and Vice-principals' Association,British Columbia School Trustees Association,Clark, Judith A
Publisher : BC School Trustees Association
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : School violence
ISBN : 1551790025

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Safe School Communities by Bareham, Steve,B.C. Principals' and Vice-principals' Association,British Columbia School Trustees Association,Clark, Judith A Pdf