Restorative Measures

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Restorative Measures

• Principles and Practices
• Riestenberg, MDE

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Compare and Contrast

• Restorative Approach
• Harm
• Amends/healing/re-connection
• Victim/Offender/
• Community decision

• Formal System
• Rule
• Punishment
• Administrator decision
• Riestenberg, MDE

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Restorative Measures
Person(s) harmed
Person(s) who did harm
Community

• talk it through
• identify solutions
• restore order
• Riestenberg, MDE

conflict/problem/harm done
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Restorative Practices

• Voluntary
• Have to admit harm
• Willing to problem solve
• Any party can stop at any time
• conducted by a trained facilitator
• Riestenberg, MDE

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Models in MN Schools

• Family/Restorative Group Conferencing
• Victim/Offender Dialogue
• Circles of Understanding
• Riestenberg, MDE

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Agreements

• Victim needs safety, retaliation concerns
• Offender plan to
• make amends,
• change behavior,
• do good in community
• Community plan for support for both bystander
  education if needed
• Address identified educational needs

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Restorative Results...

• are measured by how much repair is done rather
  than by how much punishment was inflicted.
• Riestenberg, MDE

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Outcomes of School Exclusion

• High levels of repeat offendingsuspension not
  effective in changing behavior (Costenbader
  Markson, 1998)
• Early suspension appears to predict rise in
  misbehavior (Tobin et al 1996)
• Suspension Correlated with School Dropout
  (Ekstrom1986)
• Decrease in academic achievement, (Skiba, et al,
  2003)
• Less effective school climate (Wu et al,1982)
• http//www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research
  /discipline/discipline_gen.php

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Evaluation Studies

• Minnesota Schools, 1998-2003

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S.St. Paul, Lincoln Elementary 1997-2000

• Incidents of physical harm went from 7/day to
  less than 2/day
• Behavior Referrals to Office
• 1997-98 1662
• 1998-99 1143
• 1999-00 640
• 2000-01 407

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Lincoln Elementary
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Kaposia Elementary

• ISS OSS Beh Ref
• 98-99 8 27 361
• 99-00 25 4 442
• 00-01 36 4 459
• Bottom line behaviors required referral to
  office
• New planner did not get referrals from teachers
  for about 2 months

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S. St. Paul Jr. High

• Out of School Suspensions
• 1998-99 110
• 99-2000 65
• 2000-01 55

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Minneapolis Public Schools

•  
• 01-02 02-03 change
• NS Johnson K-8 800 292 63
• Ramsey Fine Arts 272 149 45  
• K-8
• Training and implementation of circle process for
  community building, violence prevention and
  intervention

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Cass Lake Bena ElementaryResponsive Classrooms
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Bibliography

• In-School Behavior Intervention Grants,
  Riestenberg, (2001) http//education.state.mn.us/c
  ontent/041622.pdf
• Restorative Measures Respecting Everyones
  Ability to Resolve Problems http//education.state
  .mn.us/content/064280.pdf
• Restorative Justice in Schools Report, (2002)
  Ierley Ivker, www.schoolmediationcenter.org
• Restorative Schools Grants Executive Summary
  (2003) http//education.state.mn.us/content/069037
  .pdf
• Compiled by Nancy Riestenberg, MN Dept of
  Education, 651-582-8433 nancy.riestenberg_at_state.mn
  .us

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Resources

• http//education.state.mn.us/html/intro_safe_atd.h
  tm .
• Other articles click on MDE Programs, Safe
  and Healthy Students, alcohol/tobacco/other
  drugs/violence
• Nancy Riestenberg
• MN Department of Education
• 651-582-8433
• nancy.riestenberg_at_state.mn.us