{"id":15,"date":"2020-02-27T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2020-05-08T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:12:08","slug":"synthesis-of-professional-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/syntheses\/synthesis-of-professional-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthesis of Professional Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>How Teachers View Restorative Justice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The WeAreTeachers staff\u2019s article, \u201cWhat Teachers Need to Know About Restorative Justice\u201d and Melanie Asmar\u2019s article, \u201cInside one of three Denver schools serving as a national model for how to do discipline differently\u201d discuss the effects that teachers and other school staff members have observed of restorative justice implementation in their schools. According to Asmar, restorative justice \u201cis an approach to school discipline that focuses on repairing harm rather than doling out punishment,\u201d (Asmar, 2018). Both articles focus on the impacts that the techniques have had on the students and what approaches different schools have taken in terms of integrating restorative justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the biggest observed impacts of restorative justice in schools is the changes in culture, specifically the relationships between the teachers and students. Restorative justice implemented the right way in the eyes of teachers, is not just about the process but rather about an entire transformation in the atmosphere of the school. Roxanne Claason describes the attitude she takes towards implementing restorative justice in the classroom. She states when finding a solution she says, \u201c\u2018Here\u2019s the problem. What can we do to fix it?\u2019 The message you\u2019re sending the child is, \u2018I\u2019m not against you; I\u2019m for you. I want you to succeed,\u2019\u201d (Claason, quoted by WeAreTeachers staff, 2019). The importance of building trust in student-to-teacher relationships is recognized by most teachers building a restorative justice school. One student from North High School in Denver, Colorado, one of the first schools in the nation to try restorative justice, reflects, \u201cThe adults in this building care about me,\u201d (Kevin Gilbert, quoted by Asmar, 2018) a significant change from his previous school in Baltimore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers who implement these restorative justice methods see the difference in the climate of their schools versus other schools. They observe the close relationships that teachers have with students, and they notice the conversations that occur after minor offenses, such as arriving late to class. Of course, teachers recognize the need to address these offenses, but they also recognize that the solution to preventing students from misbehaving is to search for the root of the problem, rather than simply cutting off the branches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Teachers View Restorative Justice The WeAreTeachers staff\u2019s article, \u201cWhat Teachers Need to Know About Restorative Justice\u201d and Melanie Asmar\u2019s article, \u201cInside one of three Denver schools serving as a national model for how to do discipline differently\u201d discuss the effects that teachers and other school staff members have observed of restorative justice implementation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-1015-spring-2020-mhall3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}