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  1. San Francisco Examiner Mentions Restorative Practices to Stop Bullying

    posted this piece "There’s more than one way to stop bullying in school" by Carlos A. Garcia, superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. Some excerpts of the short piece include: When students feel connected and safe at school, they...

  2. Restorative Practices in San Francisco Public Schools Credited in Drop in Minority Suspensions

    August 29, 2011 post. Restorative practices are being used to help reverse these trends. Amy Crawford reports in the San Francisco Examiner: Black and Latino students are disciplined more often than white and Asian students, according to national data...

  3. Building strong school communities with restorative practices in San Francisco

    Photo by Jen ChienJan Chien, of San Francisco local public radio KALW, reports on restorative practices at Harvey Milk Elementary School: In addition to the whole-school circle in the morning, each class has its own daily community circle. Every...

  4. Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Restorative Prison Program for Violent Offenders

    2009, p. 127). So writes Sunny Schwartz in her book, Dreams from the Monster Factory. An administrator with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, Schwartz is director of the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP), at County Jail #7, in San Bruno,...

  5. San Francisco Schools Reflect on the Year with Restorative Practices

    The San Francisco Unified School District Restorative Practices Team recently issued a newsletter looking at their experience changing school climate with restorative practices. Included are some statistics of the number of people they've trained along...

  6. Faculty & Staff Publications & Presentations

    for health promotion in higher education. Paper presented at the American College Health Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abrams, G. B. (2008, December). Health educators back in college. Teleconference series, New Jersey Society for...

  7. IIRP Summer Training Institute Spreads Restorative Practices Worldwide

    social worker researching restorative practices as a way to build school community and improve student behavior From San Francisco, California, USA, the director of a new prison dorm for war veterans hoping to learn restorative solutions for inmates...

  8. SF schools try to mend problems without suspension

    Here's a lovely article by Jill Tucker at SFGate.com (home of the San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco seems to be having a serious discussion in the print media about alternative discipline approaches in schools, in particular restorative...

  9. Making Misbehavior a Teachable Moment

    Here are some selections from an op-ed piece that ran in the San Francisco Examiner yesterday, written by Carlos Garcia, superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). It is our responsibility to provide a safe place for learning. One...

  10. Homicide victims’ families find strength to go on

    Participants in the San Francisco Archdiocese Restorative Justice Ministry's homicide survivors assistance and support retreat (Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco) The Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Restorative Justice Ministry...

  11. Video of the Day: In Their Own Voices

    Here's a great little video just put out by San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) letting children and teens talk for themselves about their feelings and reactions to the implementation of restorative circles and restorative practices in their...

  12. On Cotton Candy and Restorative Parenting

    San Carlos Patch. Strain began wondering about restorative practices when she read an article about its application in San Francisco schools. Here, in this creative column, she talks about how she attempted to resolve a conflict with her 7-year-old son...

  13. Restorative Justice Practice: The State of the Field 1999

    an extended family matter." Community Alternatives. 8(2):33-55. Bush, R. and J. Folger. 1994. The Promise of Mediation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Bushie, J. 1997. "CHCH Reflections." In Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada. The Four Circles of...

  14. Ivan Madriz

    Madriz has been involved in restorative efforts for 10 years. He is currently the Social Services Coordinator for the San Francisco field office of KIND (Kids in Need of Defense), the leading national organization advocating for the rights of...

  15. Mother of young school child says restorative practices "puts the kibosh on bullying"

    Amy Merickel, a mother of a San Francisco school child, discovers the power of restorative practices when she volunteers as a recess monitor. She describes her experience in this podcast from KQED radio. I like where she says: "It's [restorative...

  16. Bullying prevention and restorative practices can work together

    exclaims. For example, according to Smull, Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queens and Wannabes, and Jeff Duncan-Andrade, a San Francisco State University professor who also works with challenging inner-city high school students in Oakland, California, both...

  17. What's a Failing School?

    relies upon the results of standardized testing alone. Here's a lengthy piece from Mother Jones about one school in San Francisco that seems to fit into this category. It has a high population of Latino students, who don't necessarily fare well on...

  18. Should we forgive Lance Armstrong?

    to repeatedly win the Tour de France. Knowing that restorative practices are used in her children's schools in San Francisco, Amy Graff floated the idea of using restorative practices with Lance and her kids took the bait. She writes: At the dinner...

  19. "Fix School Discipline Toolkit" issued by Public Counsel Law Center

    another 40% by the end of the first semester in 2008." Several interviews and information about restorative practices in San Francisco Unified School District, including IIRP's involvement, can be found on this page. The toolkit can be downloaded as a...

  20. Lorenn Walker adds to the discussion of the Grosmaire murder restorative justice conference

    in the process” as pointed out by Hadar Aviram, law professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Restorative justice is used for serious crimes including murder (it is especially effective for this level of serious...

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