Notes and Quotes

"Restorative practices are processes that proactively build healthy relationships and a sense of community to prevent and address conflict and wrongdoing."

http://www.iirp.edu/what-is-restorative-practices.php

"With restorative practices, students are drawn into building a sense of community within their class and their school, and they begin to behave appropriately because of the relationships they have with each other and with teachers, not because of some severe consequence that is dangled over their heads."

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/01/14/school-to-prison-pipeline-federal-guidelines

"What we have found from our research is that kids who felt connected to school . . . smoked less, drank alcohol less, had a later age of sexual debut and attempted suicide less. On top of this, from the educational literature, they do better across every academic measure we have. As our research expanded, [we learned that] this is not just an association kids who smoke less also felt more connected to school. It is a causal relationship. There is something in that bond, in that connection to school that changes the life trajectory, at least the health and academic behavior. It is very powerful, second only to parents in power. In some contexts it's more powerful than parents."

~Robert Blum, professor and chair, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences,Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health