Restorative Practice Resources Tagged With: racial

'We are in the midst of a pandemic and global awakening around systemic racial injustice. When school resumes, educators will need the space to be able to process what has transpired and hold similar space for their students. The goal of this webinar is to provide primary and secondary educators with tips for implementing trauma-sensitive SEL (Social Emotional Learning) curriculum for students immediately upon their return. We will model the use of online restorative circles from our Reentry through Resilience curriculum as a way to provide space virtually for educators and students. Sat, July 25, 2020'

'In The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice, Davis highlights real restorative justice initiatives that function from a racial justice perspective; these programs are utilized in schools, justice systems, and communities, intentionally seeking to ameliorate racial disparities and systemic inequities. Furthermore, she looks at initiatives that strive to address the historical harms against African Americans throughout the nation. '

'Phillips helped pave the way for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, which aimed to bring restorative justice to victims and perpetrators of human rights abuses under Apartheid, the nation's strict system of racial segregation that came to an end in the early 1990s.'

CIRCLES is the first feature film to explore the phenomenon of #restorativejustice in schools. Eric Butler, a Hurricane Katrina survivor and pioneer of the restorative justice movement, relocates and finds work at an Oakland, California, high school enforcing his no-nonsense approach to counseling vulnerable Black and Latino teenagers. Shot over two years, the film follows Butler's impassioned efforts to nurture troubled youth and keep them in school, fighting racial discrimination by replacing snap suspensions and expulsions with gritty, intimate and honest mentoring.

Too many schools today are pushing children into pipelines of incarceration and violence instead of liberation