When it was time to return to school in person for her junior year, Kimberly Higareda was resistant. She had gotten used to being at home, multitasking while attending her Zoom classes and having time ...

Our diversifying high school in northern Colorado is navigating community fractures through the implementation of restorative practices, approaches aimed at building relationships and responding to ...

Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A mix of mellow pop hits played in the background, and students at the ...

When assistant principal Heather Hilte arrived at Holabird Academy several years ago, she found the students defensive, reserved and unlikely to greet one another or the teachers in the morning. But ...

The vast majority of the behavior issues at Lawrence middle and high schools are now dealt with using restorative justice practices, and the school district is planning to expand the discipline ...

There’s a familiar, frustrating tension between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, there are yawning gaps between the views from ...

It’s a dry, hot day in south Phoenix, but my dimly lit classroom is cool and comfortable. Quick footsteps approach outside the door and two-dozen 8- and 9-year-olds return from recess, sweating and ...

As students return to class, schools everywhere are dealing with the ongoing consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: a growing achievement gap, youth mental health crises, even violence in the hallways ...

In the 2021 school year, nearly half of the state’s public and charter school districts over-suspended at least one demographic of students. Black students were disproportionately suspended in most of ...

This commentary is by Michelle Bos-Lun of Westminster, a state representative. I am a teacher who has worked in restorative justice and youth programs. I am also a first-term legislator in the Vermont ...

How did my words or actions make you feel? What do you wish I understood? What do you wish had happened instead? What do you need from us? Teachers and students sit in circles, share stories and ask ...

Author, professor and trailblazing activist Bell Hooks once said: "To build community requires vigilant awareness … rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of community." ...