Everyday Restorative Justice: Moving from Crisis Response to Positive School Culture (The Teaching for Social Justice Series)

This much-needed book provides a practical framework for implementing school-wide restorative justice practices to enhance students’ social emotional readiness. Amidst today’s uncertainty and social unrest, this book offers teachers and students hope in the underlying principles of restorative justice that challenge us to be our best selves.Through curricular sequences, lesson plans, case studies, and narrative examples, Chaterji maps the terrain for learning and practicing empathy, studying models of repair and accountability, and creating conditions for trust and vulnerability. While much of restorative justice in schools is responsive to incidents that have already occurred, this book argues for robust prevention and culture-building through students’ personal and conceptual exploration of pain, loss, oppression, and other emotionally charged topics.Chaterji carries lessons from restorative justice in high-level harm, such as victim offender dialogue, to the classroom through exerci