In the face of conflict and harm, schools have traditionally punished students. But there might be a better way.

Read more about local philanthropic efforts in the Year End Giving Guide. Isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic produced many challenges for children, their parents, and their teachers. Academically, ...

Our diversifying high school in northern Colorado is navigating community fractures through the implementation of restorative practices, approaches aimed at building relationships and responding to ...

Restorative practices promote the creation of spaces of trust and respect, with members of the campus community coming together for difficult conversations, deep listening, and restorative dialogue ...

Educators are faced with situations requiring disciplinary measures daily. No one method of discipline can serve as a blanket cure for all scenarios. In balance with modern discipline practices, ...

Practitioners on school and college-based Behavioral Intervention Teams (BITs) sit at the nexus of care, conduct, safety, and support. These teams are tasked with preventing harm, responding to ...

Restorative justice conferencing is a process to identify, address, and to the extent possible offer repair and transformation harm that has occurred to the impacted party, the community in which the ...

When Zackary Moffitt arrived at the hospital on July 6, 2013, he had a potentially fatal level of alcohol in his system. The 33-year-old was four years sober when he met his wife, Cassandra Higgins, ...