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Restorative Practices, Exhausting Teachers

Restorative Practices (RP) is the new darling of education circles.  As its goal, RP seeks to interrupt and halt the school-to-prison pipeline while helping students overcome and cope with trauma.  To do this, RP relies on developing relationships with students which enables them to reflect on and repair the harm they have caused.  RP’s goals […]

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Maybe It's The Time Of Year: Taking Another Look At Confrontation In The Classroom

It was just a lesson on folktales, really. We’ve been reading a variety of stories from around the world in my 8th grade English classroom – sometimes with partners or small groups, but yesterday I asked my students to tackle reading “Davy Crockett” alone. Their essential question was familiar at this point: “What do folktales […]