Case Studies
Maple Run Unified School District, comprised of five schools and approximately 2,646 students, has successfully integrated restorative practices into its culture and policies because its leadership values a community where everyone feels heard, safe, supported, and accountable.
City Day Community School in Dayton, Ohio, is one of the first and longest-running community schools in Dayton. Integrating restorative practices with fidelity has contributed to significant decreases in the need for traditional punitive discipline measures, leading to zero expulsions in the 2022–23 academic year and zero in-school suspensions in 2023–24.
In 2020 the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in the PACES Residential Treatment Program in Connecticut began to implement restorative practices alongside their already long-established Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program.
The New York City Department of Education is actively implementing restorative practices across 180 middle and high schools in the city’s Bronx borough.