Critical Points on Implementing Restorative Practices (or anything)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about Jamila Dugan's article Don’t Give Up On Restorative Practice from the November issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership. I have shared a few of the excerpts below that I have been dwelling on. In addition, Dugan discusses the “reformist lens” when it comes to solving problems in schools. As school leaders, we take on these huge reform initiatives like Restorative Practices and only make “surface-level changes” and then wonder why there is little to no change. This also leads to the “we tried that and it didn’t work” mentality when the fact is that the change was never implemented with the idea of making changes to the systemic issues impacting students, but instead, it was made with the idea that we need to fix the students.
Critical Points on Implementing Restorative Practices (or anything)
Critical Points on Implementing Restorative…
Critical Points on Implementing Restorative Practices (or anything)
I’ve been thinking a lot about Jamila Dugan's article Don’t Give Up On Restorative Practice from the November issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership. I have shared a few of the excerpts below that I have been dwelling on. In addition, Dugan discusses the “reformist lens” when it comes to solving problems in schools. As school leaders, we take on these huge reform initiatives like Restorative Practices and only make “surface-level changes” and then wonder why there is little to no change. This also leads to the “we tried that and it didn’t work” mentality when the fact is that the change was never implemented with the idea of making changes to the systemic issues impacting students, but instead, it was made with the idea that we need to fix the students.