A core principle of restorative practices is that they are most effective when used before any conflict has occurred.

The vast majority of the behavior issues at Lawrence middle and high schools are now dealt with using restorative justice practices, and the school district is planning to expand the discipline ...

In the 2021 school year, nearly half of the state’s public and charter school districts over-suspended at least one demographic of students. Black students were disproportionately suspended in most of ...

The result may be an increase in the use of what the researchers at Stanford call “informal exclusionary discipline practices.” The qualitative study found that early childhood settings in the San ...

After input on school disciplinary practices, the Carson City School Board has adopted its restorative discipline plan for the 2023-24 school year. Tasha Fuson, associate superintendent of educational ...

Talking back to the teacher in class? Detention. Arriving late to class every day? Suspension. Discipline in schools has followed that pattern for generations, but a new philosophy of restorative ...

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

Teachers say focusing on students’ social and emotional wellbeing to address discipline has left classrooms harder to manage than ever ...

Seven years after outcry over disparities in punishment of disabled and minority students, Spokane Public Schools has, along with many school districts in Washington, worked to change its approach to ...

The issue of racial disparities in discipline has long plagued schools across the country, including in Iowa City. Students of color, especially those who are Black, along with students who have ...

A debate over aspects of Worcester Public School’s (WPS) discipline policy broke out at Thursday’s school committee meeting between Worcester Superintendent of Schools Rachel H. Monárrez and school ...