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!!

Beautiful. Thank you!

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

Thank you Liz this is important work!!!

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

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

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

Excellent information here.

Raw passion!

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.

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

3 ай бұрын

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

Very powerful video

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

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

MY TEEAACCHHHEEERR

You are so beautiful tha k you for this talk!

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

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

2 ай бұрын

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

​@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

2 ай бұрын

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