Technology for Peer Mediators and Restorative Justice Facilitators

Funded Dec 3, 2024

The integration of iPads into the work that our school's Peer Mediators and Restorative Justice Leaders do has been a huge help in terms of our ability to seamlessly track, record, and communicate about the complex scenarios that they are responsible for helping the community work through. What once required a keeping track of loose papers, an additional step of decoding students short hand notes and handwriting, and transcribing into digital format, is now as simple as having students open the ipad. Thanks to your generous donation both the program facilitator and the students are able to reallocate several precious hours a week from processing paperwork to debriefing and reflecting on the fragile scenarios they are responsible for addressing.

Additionally, the task of being the "note taker" (though an incredibly important part of the process) was never something that my students were jumping up and down about...but with the integration of the iPad I'm finding that I never have to ask for a volunteer more than once. This is quite an unexpected gift! Again...thank you!!!!”

With gratitude,

Mr. Alexander