This week’s question is: What is restorative justice (also known as restorative practices) and what does it look like in schools? Recently, there has been the beginning of a push towards restorative ...

Restorative justice (RJ) is an alternative to the isolating, stigmatizing, and traumatizing nature of our punitive criminal justice system. Indigenous and Native nations have practiced restorative ...

My daughter got into a fight with some girls at school. We thought she’d be suspended, but the principal asked the girls involved to “make things right with those wronged.” I wanted to ground her, but ...

I was at work when I received the call from a school administrator that my daughter had bitten a boy on the playground. My kid bit someone!? I rocketed down the rabbit hole in my mind: Who was this ...

Sixth grade teacher Vicki Rotker leads a “community circle” at Kingsview Middle School in Germantown, Maryland. The school is part of the Montgomery County district, which is introducing restorative ...

Bruce Schenk is a Lutheran pastor and the director of Canada's International Institute for Restorative Practices. The IIRP is an internationally affiliated organization dedicated to education and ...