This interactive webinar features two current IIRP graduate students:
St. Claire Adriaan, principal at Academia Avance in Los Angeles, aims to create an inclusive school where all students feel welcome no matter race, sexual orientation, immigrant status and cognitive ability.
Attorney Arti Mohan of New Delhi, India, has worked with youth and women victims of sexual violence and is developing trauma-informed restorative interventions for serious offenders.
In this interactive webinar, two IIRP graduate students discuss their work and the ways their courses support them to learn while doing.
Dawn L. Williams is an assistant principal at a pre-K-8th grade school in Yonkers, New York. She strives to meet the social and emotional needs of students and facilitate communication between personnel, students, parents and the community to solve problems and resolve conflicts. She is part of a team working to implement restorative practices throughout Yonkers Public Schools.
Leonard Flippen is a restorative practices coordinator at McKenzie Junior High School in Guadalupe, California, and a restorative conference facilitator for the Santa Barbara County juvenile justice system. As a formerly incarcerated person and someone who lost a son to heroin addiction in 2016, Leonard has dedicated his life to helping others make changes in their lives.
Jamie Kaintz, IIRP Director of Student Services, provides individualized support to IIRP graduate students on everything from financial aid to admission requirements. She is currently an IIRP graduate student herself.
In this webinar, current graduate student Liesbet Bickett shared how she is using restorative practices to supervise youth mentors in a rehabilitative outdoors program. Her Master of Science studies are helping her to build organizational systems and processes that empower her work team to foster authentic relationships with clients through connection to nature and service to others.
Liesbet Bickett is the Program Manager for Whole Hearts, Minds & Bodies, a therapeutic mentoring program serving high-needs youth through the Gateway Mountain Center in the Lake Tahoe region of California. She is also a professional coach and trainer who uses restorative practices to support community organizations, community leaders, businesses, families and individuals.
Craig Adamson, Ph.D., IIRP Provost and Associate Professor, is a veteran restorative practitioner with more than 20 years of experience delivering counseling and educational services to delinquent, dependent and at-risk youth.
Jamie Kaintz, IIRP Director of Student Services, provides individualized support to IIRP graduate students on everything from financial aid to admission requirements. She is currently an IIRP graduate student herself.
Scholar practitioners transforming their communities
In this interactive webinar, IIRP Graduate Student Keisha Allen of Detroit, Michigan, spoke with Provost Craig Adamson, Ph.D, about how she is using the knowledge gained in her courses to directly impact the children and families she works with in her city.
Fostering equity in schools through restorative leadership
Restorative practices makes the biggest impact on students when school leaders understand how to engage with teachers and staff to effect real and sustaining change. Join Dr. Joyce Mundy, Stetson University, along with IIRP Instructors Koury Cook and Elizabeth Smull, as they share their experiences transforming school culture in large, diverse school districts.
Joyce Mundy, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Education, Stetson University. Following a 25-year career as a teacher, middle school principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent of K-12 schools, Dr. Mundy joined the faculty at Stetson University in the department of education. In addition to educating future school leaders in the graduate program, she is currently working with two large Florida school districts to design and implement systemic frameworks for connected, responsive and inclusive school cultures. Dr. Mundy was named the 2010 Pennsylvania Middle School Principal of the Year for her administrative work in safe schools programming. In May 2015, The Peace Center awarded Dr. Mundy the Legends in Peace award for her work in cultural diversity, restorative justice and the elimination of bullying. She is a vocal advocate for safe schools legislation and a licensed trainer of the IIRP.
Discovering Your Next Step – Inspired Learning at the Graduate Level
Kevin Jones was ready to retire from a distinguished career working with youth when he discovered restorative practices and the IIRP. Re-energized to continue working, he dove into graduate education without knowing where it would take him. In this discussion with IIRP Provost Craig Adamson, Ph.D., Kevin will share his journey of how the graduate school helped him engage in a brand new facet of a long and varied career. Attendees will be invited to participate in a question and answer session following the discussion.
Kevin Jones, M.S. After 30 years working with at-risk youth in the fields of social service, mental health and education, Kevin Jones completed his Master of Science in Restorative Practices at the IIRP Graduate School in 2017. He currently works for the Regional Office of Education in Central Illinois and is a weekend respite camp supervisor at The Baby Fold, an adoptions agency and special education school that serves children with behavioral and mental health issues. He is also an IIRP Continuing Education Instructor.
Craig Adamson, Ph.D. Dr. Craig Adamson, IIRP Provost and Associate Professor, is a veteran restorative practitioner with more than 20 years of experience delivering counseling and educational services to delinquent, dependent and at-risk youth.
Jamie Kaintz As IIRP Director of Student Services, Jamie Kaintz provides individualized support on everything from financial aid to admission requirements. She is currently an IIRP Graduate Student herself.
St. Claire Adriaan, principal at Academia Avance in Los Angeles, aims to create an inclusive school where all students feel welcome no matter race, sexual orientation, immigrant status and cognitive ability.
Attorney Arti Mohan of New Delhi, India, has worked with youth and women victims of sexual violence and is developing trauma-informed restorative interventions for serious offenders.
Jamie Kaintz, IIRP Director of Student Services, provides individualized support to IIRP graduate students on everything from financial aid to admission requirements. She is currently an IIRP graduate student herself.
Liesbet Bickett is the Program Manager for Whole Hearts, Minds & Bodies, a therapeutic mentoring program serving high-needs youth through the Gateway Mountain Center in the Lake Tahoe region of California. She is also a professional coach and trainer who uses restorative practices to support community organizations, community leaders, businesses, families and individuals.
Craig Adamson, Ph.D., IIRP Provost and Associate Professor, is a veteran restorative practitioner with more than 20 years of experience delivering counseling and educational services to delinquent, dependent and at-risk youth.
Jamie Kaintz, IIRP Director of Student Services, provides individualized support to IIRP graduate students on everything from financial aid to admission requirements. She is currently an IIRP graduate student herself.
Joyce Mundy, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Education, Stetson University. Following a 25-year career as a teacher, middle school principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent of K-12 schools, Dr. Mundy joined the faculty at Stetson University in the department of education. In addition to educating future school leaders in the graduate program, she is currently working with two large Florida school districts to design and implement systemic frameworks for connected, responsive and inclusive school cultures. Dr. Mundy was named the 2010 Pennsylvania Middle School Principal of the Year for her administrative work in safe schools programming. In May 2015, The Peace Center awarded Dr. Mundy the Legends in Peace award for her work in cultural diversity, restorative justice and the elimination of bullying. She is a vocal advocate for safe schools legislation and a licensed trainer of the IIRP.
Kevin Jones, M.S.
Craig Adamson, Ph.D.
Jamie Kaintz