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Can an overworked teacher possibly turn an unruly incident with students into an "opportunity for learning, growth, and community-building"? If restorative justice has been able to salvage lives within the world of criminal behavior, why shouldn't its principles be applied in school classrooms and cafeterias? And if our children learn restorative practices early and daily, won't we be building a healthier, more just society? Two educators answer yes, yes, and yes in this new addition to The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding series. They urge a focus on consequences rather than punishment. They insist that relationships-far more than rules-are central to building community, and that community fosters caring and belonging. They put up with no hypocrisy: teachers and administrators must live restorative practices, too. So how does it all work? Stutzman and Amstutz offer applications and models. Among them are class meetings for 5th graders; reintegration of 7th- and 8th- graders who were suspended; circle processes, which offer space for all voices to be heard, and also quiet tensions that are building; and community conferencing when trouble shapes up between students and neighbors. "Discipline that restores is a process to make things as right as possible." This Little Book shows how to get there..
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From Wagga Wagga, Australia, to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a revolution is taking place in how police, courts, schools and workplaces respond to wrongdoing Instead of just doling out punishment to offenders, we are changing our criminal justice and disciplinary systems to address the harm done to victims and the community. Based in ancient tribal practices, REAL JUSTICE involves victims, offenders and their families and friends in a face-to-face process called "restorative justice conferencing." In his book, REAL JUSTICE, Ted Wachtel offers a moving and powerful account of the growth and development of restorative justice conferencing in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States through true stories of victims and offenders in real life encounters. In vivid testimony, we see victims confront shoplifters and vandals, bullies and arsonists with their emotions. Offenders usually shed their "tough guy" images and come away with empathy and understanding for those they have harmed -- not only their victims, but their own families as well. Restorative justice conferencing holds offenders accountable and satisfies victims more effectively than our courts and school disciplinary processes. REAL JUSTICE brings us hope for a better future. "During Terry O'Connell's presentation I was seized by an epiphany, a sudden intuitive realization that I had just encountered an essential universal truth. Restorative justice conferencing was so simple that it was elegant, so basic that it was complete. Nothing in my experience with young offenders could match the positive outcomes being described by this Australian police officer. I wanted to bring restorative justice conferencing to North America, where we lead the world in escalating juvenile crime and school misconduct." -- Ted Wachtel, founder of Real Justice and president of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Graduate School.
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This comprehensive text provides the content necessary for training nursing assistants to provide restorative care in long-term care facilities, as required by OBRA law. The content includes measurable objectives and interventions to optimize resident care and to enable facilities to gain maximum reimbursement. This text provides all the information necessary to train nursing assistants in restorative care, as well as, the information required to implement a restorative care training program. It enables the necessary training to advance the certified nursing assistant to the restorative nursing assistant level. Thus, facilities to attain the goal of maintaining or improving residents' conditions. The text focuses on techniques to promote resident involvement, thereby improving resident independence and self-esteem. ALSO AVAILABLE - INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual ISBN: 0-8273-8142-5 Computerized Testbank ISBN: 0-7668-1433-5.
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"Conferencing Handbook: The New Real Justice Training Manual" by Terry O'Connell, Ben Wachtel and Ted Wachtel is a clearly conceived procedural guide to coordinating and facilitating conferences, covering the process of selecting cases, inviting participants, making preparations and running the conference itself. It is useful to anyone who wants to learn to facilitate conferences in school, criminal justice and other settings.

The handbook begins with a chapter called "The Script," which presents the conference script and discusses its origins, the psychological and sociological theory used to develop the script, and the reasons why one would use a script.

Chapter 2, "When to Run a Conference," discusses criteria for deciding whether to run a conference, who should facilitate conferences, needs of victims, and when a conference is not appropriate.

Chapter 3, "Conference Preparation," provides detailed instruction on choosing a time and place for a conference, selecting and inviting participants, developing a seating plan, and making preparations.

Chapter 4, "Running the Conference," takes the reader through the conference process, from setting up before the conference and seating participants to reaching an agreement and closing the conference. Each section of the script is explained with suggestions on how to handle various situations that arise.

Chapter 5, "Establishing a Conferencing Program," offers advice to program coordinators, complemented by a plethora of sample literature and forms from actual conferencing programs, including Central City Neighborhoods Partnership (Minnesota), Piedmont Dispute Resolution Center (Virginia), and Hawke's Bay Restorative Justice Te Puna Wai Ora (New Zealand).

The last chapter, "Restorative Practices -- Beyond the Formal Conference," provides a framework, examples and practical suggestions for incorporating the language and philosophy of the conference script in a range of less formal restorative interventions.

The 168-page Handbook includes several illustrative diagrams, a preparation checklist, a conference seating planner, and data forms for record-keeping and conference evaluation. Quotes in the side margins highlight key points from the text.

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