Rebuilding Broken Trust in a C...
Julia Steiny – Professor David Karp runs a Restorative Justice initiative at Skidmore College and researches college-student...
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Leeds — 4. Child-Friendl...
Julia Steiny – This is Part 4 of 5 on Leeds’ efforts to become a Child-Friendly City. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) In 2010,...
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Julia Steiny – This is Part 2 of 5 on Leeds’ efforts to become a Child-friendly city. In 1989 the United Nations...
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Julia Steiny – This is Part 1 of 4 on Leeds’ efforts to become a Child-friendly city. If a municipality or state got...
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In 2003 Louisiana’s state department of education created the Recovery School District (RSD). New Orleans’s schools were...
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Julia Steiny – Kaitlyn finds herself in a weird fight with her dad — her beloved dad, I might add. “I respect him...
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Julia Steiny – Currently, Rhode Island has the highest unemployment in the nation. As unemployment was falling...
read moreChanging Rotten Behavior
Julia Steiny: Restorative Conferencing Changes Rotten Behavior The mom and her 15-year-old son are so palpably nervous you can almost...
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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” — Dorothy Parker A 2013 review of the literature...
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Julia Steiny – There is no alternative universe where bad kids go and get better. Period. Such a place does not exist. Mind...
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Julia Steiny – Recently I was at a luncheon where a Mom and Grandma minded their two-year-old by plugging him into a propped-up...
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Shame. A feeling we all hate. A subject we avoid. Our faces flush when we can suddenly see ourselves being the sort of person even we...
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Julia Steiny – Open since 2010, Greene Charter School in West Greenwich, RI, is one of a network of a large and growing network...
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Julia Steiny – Dr. Amy Pratt looks me dead in the eye when she says, “The Greene Charter School would not exist if it...
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Julia Steiny – In January 2002, the worker bees were settling into their jobs at the Rhode Island Department of Education after...
read moreIf the CCSS Are Not Our Common...
Julia Steiny – To my chagrin, people whom I respect took my column of last week out to the woodshed for a thrashing. I’d...
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Julia Steiny – It’s true: if allowed to survive, the Common Core State Standards would be a massive, necessary, though...
read moreDigital Badges Bust Out of Sch...
Julia Steiny – Damian Ewens sits in his snazzy office at BetaSpring, a Providence business incubator. He’s mother hen to...
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Julia Steiny – Completely by accident, on a get-away to Maine, my husband and I ran across a fairy village created by children....
read moreWhat Is International Restorat...
…the justice system we’ve got — the one that now has about 2.2 million Americans behind bars at about $30,000 per...
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