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Restorative justice in schools represents a transformative approach to discipline that focuses on repairing harm and rebuilding relationships rather than punishing students for misbehavior. This practice is based on principles of empathy, respect, and accountability, encouraging students to understand the impact of their actions, take ...
Restorative justice is a framework that educators can use to create safe, supportive spaces in our schools. All members of the school learn to bravely engage in that community, and learn from honest – and sometimes difficult – conversations.
Restorative practices, at their best, are part of a school culture that prioritizes culturally sustaining pedagogy and authentic relationship building—connections that allow for trust, openness and inclusive spaces. Without that foundation, it’s hard to move straight into restorative work.
This report presents information garnered from a comprehensive review of the literature on restorative justice1 in U.S. schools. The purpose of our review is to capture key issues, describe models of restorative justice, and summarize results from studies conducted in the field.
Despite its increasing recognition and use in U.S. schools, a limited amount of research has evaluated the effect of restorative justice (RJ) for school violence prevention and response. To date, there is no standardized method for RJ implementation. Therefore, this systematic literature review investigates peer-reviewed studies on the application of RJ practices in K-12 school settings.
How do you implement restorative justice as a framework for improving school culture and climate in New York’s most underserved schools? How can you reduce a school’s reliance on exclusionary discipline, especially in schools with some of the highest suspension rates in New York City? Where do you even start, and whom do you tap to do the work?
The report describes restorative justice as encompassing “a growing social movement to institutionalize non-punitive, relationship-centered approaches for avoiding and addressing harm, responding to violations of legal and human rights, and collaboratively solving problems.”
Restorative justice (RJ) is a broad term that encompasses an array of non-punitive, relationship-centered approaches for addressing and avoiding harm.
Momentum for comprehensive school discipline reform has grown with the increasing recognition of the long-term negative effects of school suspension (e.g., Bacher-Hicks et al., 2019) and the persistent racial disparities in exclusionary discipline (Gage et al., 2021).Both internationally and in the United States, schools have turned to restorative practices to reduce the use of exclusionary ...
Restorative justice outcomes can also be evidenced where it has been adopted into other contexts, often described as restorative practice in schools where it refers to a wide range of different activities such as restorative circles (Wang & Lee, Citation 2019), conferences (Payne & Welch, Citation 2015), pro social skills within the context of ...