Help me give my students & colleagues tools to continue to build our Restorative and Transformative Justice framework at school.
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I am a school Climate Specialist in a high-needs neighborhood. Our school is a diverse public high school: 38% Hispanic, 18% Black/African American, 4% Asian, 3% Pacific Islander, 7% Multiracial, 4% Native American, and 29% Caucasian.
I have amazing students who use their diversity and life experiences to their advantage.
Many of my students struggle with challenges outside of school. Many of our students are below the poverty line. Many students are in the foster care system or are homeless. Many are recent immigrants learning English as a second language. They are excited to boost create social change in our community.
They have recently come together with a list of demands to value Black lives at our school. One of their demands focuses on expanding restorative justice.
My Project
These books and tools will be used by my school Equity & Climate Team to center our work in restorative and transformative justice, as was demanded by our students. We appreciate these books, in particular, because they are straightforward and offer explicit tools to develop restorative systems and guided restorative conferencing. We hope to share some excerpts of these in staff professional development sessions. We also are excited that many of these books are authored by educators and activists of color.
In the face of a year of online learning, we are determined to look at this as an opportunity to pause and build relationships with all stakeholders at our school.
We have suffered from high turnover rates and lack of funding that has created an atmosphere that lacks trust and connection. We know that staff can better serve students when they model the kindness, empathy, compassion, and connection toward one another. We hope to use these conversation cards to start deeper and more authentic conversation between staff members. We are also excited to share some of these conversation starters for class circles and icebreakers! These Table Topic cards have empowered students with choice by allowing them to sort through cards to find a question for a circle round.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
TableTopics Teen: Questions to Start Great Conversations
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$25.00
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$25.00
TableTopics Original - 10th Anniversary Edition: Questions to Start Great Conversations
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$25.00
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$25.00
Empowering Questions Cards - 52 Cards for Mindfulness & Meditation, Writing, or Any Other Empowering Process - The Original Deck
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$14.49
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$14.49
Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice (Hack Learning Series)
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$13.69
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$13.69
The Big Book of Restorative Justice: Four Classic Justice & Peacebuilding Books in One Volume (Justice and Peacebuilding)
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$12.99
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$12.99
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
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$11.29
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$11.29
The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation (Justice and Peacebuilding)
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$5.99
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$5.99
The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation (Justice and Peacebuilding)
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$5.99
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$5.99
Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding)
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$5.99
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$5.99
The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education: Fostering Responsibility, Healing, and Hope in Schools (Justice and Peacebuilding)
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$5.99
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$5.99
The Little Book of Circle Processes : A New/Old Approach to Peacemaking (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series) (Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding)
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$3.89
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$3.89
Materials cost
$130.31
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$1.95
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$162.26
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$28.63
Total project goal
$190.89
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$190.89
2 Donors
-$190.89
Donations toward project cost
-$162.26
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