Restorative Justice in our Schools - Getting Kids Out of the School-to-Prison Pipeline - Tulsa Peace Fellowship2024-03-28T20:53:22Zhttp://tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com/forum/topics/restorative-justice-in-our-schools?feed=yes&xn_auth=noRestorative Justice Turns Vio…tag:tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com,2014-10-05:2567841:Comment:326442014-10-05T18:34:05.771ZTony Nusplhttp://tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com/profile/TonyNuspl
<p><strong>Restorative Justice Turns Violent Schools Around - examples from Philadelphia</strong></p>
<p><span class="post_date" title="2014-10-01">October 1, 2014<br></br><em>Project Censored: The News that Didn't Make the News</em></span></p>
<p><span class="post_date" title="2014-10-01">This story coming in @ #24 for 2013-2014<br></br></span></p>
<p>Last year when American Paradigm Schools took over Philadelphia’s infamous, failing John Paul Jones Middle School, they did something a lot of people…</p>
<p><strong>Restorative Justice Turns Violent Schools Around - examples from Philadelphia</strong></p>
<p><span class="post_date" title="2014-10-01">October 1, 2014<br/><em>Project Censored: The News that Didn't Make the News</em></span></p>
<p><span class="post_date" title="2014-10-01">This story coming in @ #24 for 2013-2014<br/></span></p>
<p>Last year when American Paradigm Schools took over Philadelphia’s infamous, failing John Paul Jones Middle School, they did something a lot of people would find inconceivable. Rather than beef up the already heavy security to ensure safety and restore order, American Paradigm stripped it away. During renovations, they removed both metal detectors and barred windows. The police predicted chaos. But, instead, new numbers seem to show that in a single year the number of serious incidents fell by 90 percent.<br/><br/>School officials stated it wasn’t just the humanizing physical makeover of the facility that helped. They also credit the <strong>Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), a noncoercive, nonviolent conflict resolution regimen</strong></p>
<p>AVP, when tailored to school settings, emphasizes student empowerment, relationship building, and anger management over institutional control and surveillance. There are no aggressive security guards in schools using the AVP model; instead they have engagement coaches, who provide support, encouragement, and a sense of safety...Trained in nonviolent conflict resolution, the engagement coaches “help mediate disputes rather than dole out punishment,” Jeff Deeney reported in the <i>Atlantic</i>. Because students come to trust their engagement coaches, the school has been able to forestall potential conflicts: For example, “Coaches often get advance word,” Deeney wrote, “when something’s about to go down in the hallways.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/24-restorative-justice-turns-violent-schools-around/" target="_blank">http://www.projectcensored.org/24-restorative-justice-turns-violent-schools-around/</a></p>