The IIRP’s two-year Whole-School Change Program is being implemented in 22 schools across the US. In this article by Laura Mirsky, teachers, administrators and other school staff talk about their experiences with the Whole-School Change implementation process and share stories about how restorative practices is affecting their school communities and themselves. Some preliminary data is included, as well.

Through a combination of grassroots efforts and government support, Nova Scotia, Canada, has the potential to become "a restorative province." This article by Mary Shafer and Laura Mirsky tells how the restorative approach is being implemented in schools and communities and includes interviews with education and agency professionals.

IIRP  | 2010-10-29 |

View the conference schedule and presentation materials (where provided).

Deanna Webb | 2010-01-07 |

This article by Deanna L. Webb, an eighth-grade special education teacher at a middle school in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA, and a June 2009 IIRP Master of Restorative Practices and Education recipient, talks about how her creative, day-to-day implementation of restorative practices have helped make her classroom a thriving community where staff and students help each other to learn and grow.

Laura Mirsky | 2009-06-22 |

The climate of this urban high school, which was on Pennsylvania's "Persistently Dangerous Schools" list, has undergone enormous changes, due to strong leadership and restorative practices, as reported in this article by Laura Mirsky.

The fourth commencement of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Graduate School, on June 25th, 2011, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, included 35 graduates and a crowd of 230-plus family and friends. Just two days before, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education granted the IIRP official accreditation status. This article includes a link to a video of a "talking circle" with 10 graduates speaking about their IIRP experience.

June 20, 2009 marked the second commencement of the IIRP Graduate School, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. This article by Laura Mirsky shares stories about some of the 14 master's degree recipients and reports on the commencement address, which was delivered by restorative justice pioneer Terry O'Connell, director of IIRP affiliate Real Justice Australia.

Marie-Isabelle Pautz, an IIRP One-Year FastTrack Master’s Degree candidate in Restorative Practices and Youth Counseling, is seeing wonderful results implementing restorative practices in a preschool. This article includes excerpts from a paper written for her YC/ED 510, Professional Learning Group (PLG) Seminar: Restorative Project.

A report on the IIRP’s first participatory symposium, which brought together 42 professionals to share and strategize about how to implement and sustain restorative practices in a wide range of settings. Accompanied by a video of the event.

Throughout Latin America there are growing efforts to confront the social consequences of poverty and violence. Restorative practices provides an outlook that is appealing to many who are working to bring people together to resolve problems and transform the nature of society.  This two-part article discusses how individuals in Latin America are implementing restorative practices in their organizations, schools and communities. Part one discusses Nicaragua, Panama and Colombia. Part two talks about Mexico and Peru and references work in Brazil.