Restorative Practices in Schools Have Power to Transform Communities | Liz Knapp | TEDxMcMinnville

[@sharidraayer5252]

My dear teacher - you are awesome!! I wish all my children could have had a year in your classroom! Thank you for facing your terror and being on that stage!!

[@ralphylad]

That first activity with the rocks in bag was very very powerful!!!

[@katethibault9083]

Amazing! Thank you for inspiring us as school leaders with your story and vision!

[@KJT1567]

Thank you for sharing this. I’m an educator and my personal life applies to all 3 categories; Abuse, Neglect, and Dysfunction on the home. I didn’t think I’d graduate from HS, let alone get my Masters Degree in Education if it weren’t for my Power Person who saved me. It started all with her in the 9th grade.

[@mitramalekzadeh9988]

I think this model can work in any neighborhood, Community and so on. If we could ripple greatness 🙌 and resilience and kindness... we can shift the whole entire system, one person, one day at a time

[@margaretthorsborne8478]

I like the link to Ross Greene's work. Thanks for making that. You can't punish the acquisition of skills that are missing.

[@dominiqueraccug]

Love this! Such a necessary conversation. Thank you for sharing your experiences...

[@beverlynovak2538]

I understand all of this and agree...but we need concrete ways on HOW to do this, not just talking about it. YES it needs to be done, restorative approach is better, but HOW do we do it?

[@Averageplayer187]

It's starts with proactive implementation. Consistency while staying flexible.

[@stefanieanduri623]

Beautiful. Thank you!

[@amychamberlain5893]

Excellent information here.

[@abiodunadebowale9741]

Raw passion!

[@ophiecat]

It is too bad statistics for Canada were not shown. Would be interesting to see the difference between two very similar countries.

[@streulik]

Thank you Liz this is important work!!!

[@dblev2019]

This video is the perfect example of what is wrong with our education system. The teachers job is to teach, they are NOT trained psychiatrists nor are they counselors! The only thing teachers should be teaching our kids are the subjects they are trained to teach. I live in a state that’s been using this approach going on 9 years, but nearly every teacher I know is on the verge of quitting due to disciplinary issues. Those teachers who want to teach are not supported by the district. Instead they are prohibited from handling a disciplinary incident in a manner which would allow them to resume teaching those kids who want to learn. The teachers job is to teach, not to be little Johnny’s third parent! If there are kids in the classroom who do not want to learn, then remove them until they are ready to learn. Otherwise all you’re doing is holding the whole class back to the level of those who are creating the havoc! Watch Thomas Sowells interview with Diane Rehm and return to common sense!

[@MariiChi]

Look up and read about Youth Courts in the Netherlands on Restorative Justice approach. It's amazing. Basically if anything serious happens it will be sent in the youth court and the students will solve the problems themselves using RJ leaving teachers out of it. Maybe it is time to start using the youth court model?

[@dblev2019]

With all due respect that doesn’t sound like a good idea at all. These kids are in school for a reason. Their 8 or 9 years of life experience, during the most susceptible years of their lives is likely to lead to horrific outcome! Look back at the red guards during Mao’s cultural revolution and you will see a potential end result. These kids are still developing and are highly impressionable. This leads to many questions like: Who’s guiding these Children? What are the boundaries? What will be the values set which they are permitted to rule? It’s ripe for manipulation, and false empowerment. That being said I will look into the Netherlands youth courts, but at the end of the day adults need to act like adults and children need to be children.

[@MariiChi]

@@dblev2019 Restorative justice never disobeys teaching responsibility. On the contrary, high control of children also needs high support and teaches boundaries. Every practice if done incorrect will fail miserably. If we are sent to a doctot who prescribes us medicine without properly diagnosing us, the outcome will be horrible. It's the same with restorative justice. Every practice that tries to restore something is not automatically restorative justice.

[@honestinspiration]

@dblev2019 I am a teacher and respectfully disagree. Education is not just about teaching your subject, it is about forming positive relationships with students, learning about who they are, and offering a space where they know you care, listen and see them. So many life lessons are taught outside of your subject area and that's not to say you're not a good teacher, it means you have a balance of academics with social emotional learning. This creates that successful student who will appreciate you on the human level.

[@dblev2019]

@@honestinspiration that’s wonderful to hear, but once you depart from the subject field you’ve been trained to teach in, you begin encroaching into areas which are the parents responsibility. You’re imposing your own system of morality onto others. Thomas Sowell went to school in New York City during the 1940’s, a time when the education system was far superior to what it is today. This is how he described his experience, “When I think of the teachers I had they could not have cared less whether I felt good about myself. They didn't ask me how did you get to school, did you walk these 15 blocks from home, or did you have money for the trolley. They couldn't have cared less. They wanted to make sure I had better have my homework when I got there, and it better be right.” Those are the teachers Dr. Sowell remembers fondly, those are the teachers he credits for laying the foundation for his academic success.

[@julieturner3996]

Very well done. I’m with you all the way 👏🏾👏🏾

[@sarahwilson4334]

Very powerful video

[@moideenmoidunny173]

This is one of the most amazing talks I've ever seen.

[@tiffanyripley5428]

MY TEEAACCHHHEEERR

[@amandairvine3658]

You are so beautiful tha k you for this talk!

[@CoachFig4]

Restorative practices is highly flawed. There are six different stakeholders that have to 'buy-in'. And another influencer that has to mirror what schools are doing. One of the stakeholders is parents and they can be hit or miss with support-- usually big misses when their kid is one of the victims. It works much better at the MS level than HS. If you think that this is practical to the HS level you would be wrong. But social-emotional learning is arguably paramount in schools and anything that attempts to meet that end is important. Gimme some elements of these practices but not all.

[@snfjrejsr]

Where is the responsibility of the parents? Show me the data of the “School to prison pipeline” If parents don’t parent, are we now their parents? How dare you inflict that responsibility upon people who are not the relatives of these kids. What if the parents are not onboard with this teaching approach and undo everything you try to teach? This is a horrible presentation.

[@MariiChi]

Wow. "how dare you". Such a triggered response. The society as a whole teaches kids through various interactions with the world and the people around children. Have you heard of a saying it takes a village to grow healthy children? Children are not isolated in the world with only their parents. They learn alot by interacting with the world and seeing how the world reacts to their actions. All in all, shaming people into change doesn't work which is why punishment and reincarnation among youngsters does not work as well. There are a lot of evidence and science behind it and the restorative approach, I invite you to read more about it.

[@asianhippy]

How are your stones the cause of all these illnesses? And if they are the cause , what do you propose as the cure? Why do you not have any mention of parents as problems or solutions to some, if not most of what is going wrong? With your anecdotal story about the boys damaging school property, are you saying you didn't punish them? You had them in detention, you had them face up to what they had done and then they had to clean up the mess they had made and you say they didn't suffer any form of punishment? You talk about the school to prison pipeline. Are you saying this is due solely to the education system? Do the parents have no involvement? Do the children have no responsibility for their actions? You raise a lot of questions but fail to give any solutions.

[@cmeredith520]

As teachers we can only focus on what we can control. We cannot control who the children's parents are, but we can control how we treat the students at school. We are modeling empathy and compassion, things they might not get at home. She was saying that the solution is implementing restorative practices. Of course the education system is not the only possible reason for school to prison pipeline, she was explaining that we cannot control the stones the students have, but we can control how the school handles these students' behaviors. Why would we punish the students before attempting to understand them and knowing both sides of the story?

[@heightsofsagarmatha]

​@cmeredith520 not punishment but discipline. Restorative Justice is a bad leftist idea, it's mentally ill liberal women forcing their unwellness onto other people

[@heightsofsagarmatha]

​@@cmeredith520 RJ schools have bad discipline, bad scores, crime at school, etc. Another bad liberal idea