“The Disciples of BETHLEHEM: Restorative Practice Is Transforming Durham Catholic District School Board” is an article by Mike O’Neill, vice principal, St. Catherine of Sienna Catholic School, Durham Catholic District School Board. See: http://www.cpco.on.ca/News/PrincipalConnections/PastIssues/Vol13/Issue1/Bethlehem.pdf

Restorative practices are credited for reducing suspensions in the Durham District School Board. Suspension rates for the first term of the 2009-2010 school year are lower in both secondary and elementary schools, as reported in the Durham News. See: http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/education/article/147268

The January 19, 2010 program, Metro Morning Parenting, hosted by Karen Horsman, broadcast part two of a piece about restorative practices in schools. This segment focused on an anti-bullying program at the Durham District School Board’s Sinclair High School, in Whitby, Ontario, which employs talking circles to impart empathy and respect. The program features an interview with Sinclair’s vice principal Susan Jones. IIRP Canada director Bruce Schenk is bringing restorative practices to the Durham District School Board. To listen to the piece, go to: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/2010/01/restorative_practices_2_runs_3.html

The January 12, 2010 program, Metro Morning Parenting, hosted by Karen Horsman, broadcast a piece about restorative practices in schools, featuring an interview with Kendra Godin Svoboda, a teacher with the Durham District School Board. The page links to the IIRP website. To listen to the piece, go to: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/2010/01/restorative_practices_1_runs_3.html.

The focus of PASAP is "assisting youth who are at-risk to find the strength in overcoming the barriers to success." The conference is March 7, 8, and 9, 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference Center, in State College, PA. 2010 marks the 25th year of the PASAP and the 20th conference.

Two Philadelphia schoolteachers, members of the Teacher Action Group, wrote an op-ed piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer saying that they would like to see restorative practices employed to handle the recent violent conflict between Asian- and African-American students at South Philadelphia High School, as well as district wide “to make meaningful change and prevent violence in every school in the city.”

The Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a publication that covers education in Philadelphia, has published an article by Ron Whitehorne about how restorative practices, as introduced by the IIRP, have helped build community and reduce discipline problems at West Philadelphia HIgh School.

2009-11-13

On October 21-23, 2009, nearly three hundred educators, social service, criminal justice and other professionals from 15 countries and 18 U.S. states gathered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, for the 12th IIRP World Conference, "Restoring Community in a Disconnected World, Part 2." Like all IIRP conferences, the event was acclaimed by attendees as a wonderful opportunity to support each other’s efforts and share success stories and questions around restorative practices. An in-depth report on the conference will be published soon in the Restorative Practices eForum. We will also be posting breakout session papers, as presenters continue to send them in. (All breakout session papers are welcome.)

Greetings, eForum members, from day three of "Restoring Community in a Disconnected World, Part 2" in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. Hundreds of restorative practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and advocates from around the world have come together for three days to share their knowledge and achievements and to find support and advice from others doing similar work.

Greetings, eForum members, from day two of "Restoring Community in a Disconnected World, Part 2" in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. Hundreds of restorative practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and advocates from around the world have come together for three days to share their knowledge and achievements and to find support and advice from others doing similar work.