Press Contact: Laura Mirsky | phone 267-718-7374 | email: lauramirsky@iirp.edu

Coverage

• 10/13/11 - Allentown - Morning Call: Opinion piece on restorative practices in schools by IIRP president Ted Wachtel
• 10/3/11 - Issues Today Radio: IIRP president Ted Wachtel interview on restorative practices in schools runs on stations nationwide
• 8/30/11 - Henrietta (NY) Post: IIRP's Steve Korr to Keynote at Western New York Restorative Justice Conference, Regarding Restorative Practices in Schools
• 8/30/11 - Express Times: Bethlehem Area School District kicks off school with culture change
• 8/29/11 - Educational Leadership: Building Safer, Saner Schools
• 8/29/11 - Education Week: Study Finds Metal Detectors More Common in High-Minority Schools
• 7/3/11 - Harrisburg - Patriot News: It's possible to establish safe schools
• 6/20/11 - lehighvalleylive.com: Bethlehem Area School District finds in-kind donation, grant for school climate change
• 6/14/11 - Baltimore Sun.com: Reviving tough love in tough schools
• 6/6/11 - FoxNews.com: There Are Proven Tools to Make Schools Safer — We Just Have to Use Them
• 6/1/11 - Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly students: Fund programs that have helped
  
• 5/12/11 - Philadelphia Inquirer: Overbrook High School senior addresses school board meeting, calling for restorative practices
  
• 4/25/11 - KYW CBS Newsradio, Philadelphia: Dr. Marcienne Mattlemen's story of how IIRP’s restorative practices is allowing schools to find solutions to problems like bullying and violence
  
• 4/1/11 - Education Week: Column promotes IIRP and restorative practices
  
• 4/1/11 - Philadelphia Inquirer: Restorative practices in district schools, quotes IIRP director of continuing education John Bailie
  
• 3/15/11 - Express Times: Bethlehem, PA, Area School Board Approves Plan Based on Restorative Practices, IIRP to Provide Training
  
• 3/14/11 - WFMZ TV 69 News: Bethlehem, PA, School Board moving forward with restorative practices. Interviews IIRP director of continuing education John Bailie
  
• 3/6/11 - Express Times: Restorative practices gaining a foothold in the Bethlehem, PA, Area School District
  
• 2/14/11 - Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Restorative Practices a Success at West Philadelphia High School
  
• 1/31/11 - Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Teacher Action Group Calls for Restorative Practices
  
• 1/31/11 - Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Analysis of Report Calling for Restorative Practices
  
• 1/20/11 - San Francisco - Beyond Chron: Restorative Practices & IIRP Coming to San Francisco
  
• 1/13/11 - Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Report Calls for Restorative Practices as Effective Alternative to Zero Tolerance
  
• 11/7/10 - Wisconsin Daily Citizen: School Districts Learn Restorative Practices
  
• 10/31/10 - Pottstown Mercury: Restorative Practices Reduces Bullying in Pottstown Schools
  
• 10/29/10 - Wilkes Barre Times Leader: Pennsylvania Schools Have Success with Restorative Practices
  
• 10/10/10 - Providence Journal: Restorative Practices in CSF Schools for At-Risk Youth
  
• 10/9/10 - Hull (UK) Daily Mail: IIRP Holds International Conference in "World's First Restorative City"
  
• 10/10/10 - Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Restorative Practices Needed to Prevent School "Push-Out" for Minority Boys
  
• 10/5/10 - Hull (UK) Daily Mail: City in spotlight for tackling children's unruly behaviour
  
• 8/15/10 - Providence Journal: Restorative Practices and the IIRP
  
• 5/5/2010 - Windy Hill: Restorative Practices Prevents Violence at Methacton High School
  
• Winter 2009 - Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Restorative Practices Reduces Violence at West Philadelphia High School
  
• 11/11/09 - Pottstown Mercury: Pottstown High School Principal Speaks on Restorative Practices
  
• 11/11/09 - Pocono Record: IIRP Hosts International Conference
  
• 4/23/09 - Fox Philadelphia TV News: Stats Show Drop In City School Violence Due to Restorative Practices
  
• 11/18/08 - WBAL TV Baltimore, MD: Reporter Tim Tooten reports on IIRP One-Day Conference for educators
  
• 11/12/08 - Scholastic Administrator Magazine: Restorative Practices in use in Schools
  
• 10/17/07 - Pocono Record: Ted Wachtel Installed as President of IIRP Graduate School
  
• 5/1/07 - Jamaica Gleaner: Restorative justice for local schools