Why not PROACTIVELY in GCS schools?
Why not PROACTIVELY in all NC schools?
* Violence Risk Threat Assessment Policy and Procedures: process in which school administrator, law enforcement, mental health counselor, and teacher(s)/employee(s) involved TOGETHER investigate, examine, evaluate and report the threat
* VA Code 18.2-60: Legislation created/passed by VA Teacher Association and VA legislators AFTER the VA Tech massacre: at school or school activities, oral threats of bodily harm are a Misdemeanor 1; written threats of bodily harm are a Felony 6.
* Howard Zehr's: Restorative Justice "three's":
3 assumptions underlie restorative justice:
* When people and relationships are harmed, needs are created
* The needs created by harms lead to obligations.
* The obligation is to heal and “put right” the harms; this is a just response.
3 principles of restorative justice reflect these assumptions: A just response…
*
acknowledges and repairs the
harm caused by, and revealed by, wrongdoing
(restoration);
* encourages appropriate responsibility for
addressing needs and repairing the harm (accountability); (restoration);
* involves those impacted, including the community, in the resolution
(engagement).
3 underlying values provide the foundation:
* Respect
* Responsibility * Relationship
3 questions are central to restorative justice:
* Who has been hurt?
* What are their needs?
* Who has the obligation to address the needs, to put right the harms, to restore relationships?
(As opposed to: What rules were broken? Who did it? What do they deserve?)
3 stakeholder groups should be considered &/or involved:
* Those who have been harmed, and their families
* Those who have caused harm, and their families
* Community
3 aspirations guide restorative justice: the desire to live in right relationship:
* with one another;
* with the creation;
* with the Creator.
W Philadelphia HS was named a "persistently dangerous school" for violence/crime.
Click to view video:
"Transformation of
West Philadelphia High School: A Story of Hope" is nine minutes long and
can be viewed for free at SaferSanerSchools.
Innovative Concept Academy: In 2009, after watching a string of teen offenders come through
his courtroom, Judge Edwards took action. Along with 45 community partners, he
took over an abandoned school and opened the Academy. Providing strict
discipline, counseling and programs like chess, music and creative writing, and
mandatory after-school activities, the center has changed the lives of many
young people, giving them the opportunity to graduate from high school and lead
successful lives.
“I am so proud of all the teachers, staff, volunteers, and most of
all, the students who have made our Innovative Concept Academy a success,” said
Judge Edwards. “By supporting our school St. Louis is refusing to give up on
troubled juveniles and, in turn, the students are proving that hope for a
better life is a universal dream.”
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