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- Welcome, I am so happy
that you came today.

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You're going to experience a circle.

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Now, when I say experience,

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that means there's nobody taking notes.

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You don't have to do any of that.

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You're going to be the notes
so when we're done with this,

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you'll have an idea of
what this is all about.

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Before I begin, I'd like
to give you a brief history

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about restorative discipline practices.

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It just didn't come to the map
today, it came a while ago.

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In 1958, this is abbreviated,
remember, abbreviated, short.

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I could have added much,
much more but I didn't,

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so in 1958, a man by the
name of Albert Eglash

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coined the term restorative justice.

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As we move through the
century, the decades,

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we have in 1970 and 1980s

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Howard Zehr, Ron
Claassen, and Mark Umbreit

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began the victim-offender
mediatiation in the United States.

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In 1988, the University of Minnesota

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opened up a center for peace.

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In 1990s into the 2000s,

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the expression restorative
justice took off.

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It became so popular and widespread

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everyone was talking about it.

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A woman by the name of Kay Pranis,

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whom I have a lot of books down there

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that she has co-authored,

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she is known as the Queen
or the Mother of Circles.

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This is her thing.

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Kay Pranis, in 1996,
implemented circles with adults,

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juvenile justice systems, social workers,

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school social workers,
work places, neighborhoods,

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mediation programs,
churches, and families.

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As you can see,

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this is something or two
that can be used anywhere,

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and I'll tell you a few
funny stories of when I began

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and you'll be cracking up
because I tried it on my family.

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Bad idea.

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Anyway,
(laughing)

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anyway, in 2000 to 2008, the
restorative justice movement

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attracts segments of society,
including police officers,

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judges, school teachers, politicians,

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juvenile justice agencies like DAEP,

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victim support groups,
and Aborigine elders.

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The University of Texas also, in 2008,

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opened up the Restorative
Justice Dialogue Institute.

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That came out of Ed White
Middle School in San Antonio.

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They began using circles to reduce

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the number of discipline referrals.

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They knew they were on to something.

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They weren't the only one
in the state that did it,

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but because the University
of Texas took them on

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to coddify their process and
get all their data together

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so somebody could see what happened,

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they found that they
dropped their referrals

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by 30% the first year.

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So that means if he dropped a pencil,

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you didn't automatically say get out.

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There was another method to do that,

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because most of the referrals as you know

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come from small things.

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He says that when they went
to Ed White they decided

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that it was really a good idea to continue

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and they started with one grade
level, the next grade level,

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after three years all
of them were involved.

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So I was very happy to know that they did

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drop the discipline referrals,

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and it gives teachers another opportunity

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to find another way to
engage with students,

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and so this process is

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what you're going to be learning today.

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In addition to that, Robert Rico,

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the University of Texas in San Antonio,

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was the one who talked
to the principle's wife

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because she was in his class,

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and so she brought it to
her husband at Ed White,

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and Ed White took it on, and after that,

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Robert said you might want
to get all of this coddified

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so the University of Texas in
Austin coddified their process

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and that's how it took off,

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and I'm gonna tell you
another person's name,

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and some of you may know him, Jim Welsh?

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He's a special education
attorney, big name,

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and guess what he did?

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He wrote an op-ed piece about restorative,

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and soon as he wrote it,
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it went like fire,

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and now everybody wants
to know how to do it, so.

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In 2014, 2015, Texas Education
Agency decided to partner

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with the University of Texas,

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and decided to roll this out statewide

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through the service centers.

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We have someone from the
service center here today,

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and she's aware of it as well,

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and so those 20 service centers,

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we do an administrative
training for two days,

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and we teach them this process,

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much more information of course,

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and then there's a coordinator
trained for five days,

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and that five day training
goes into deeper relationships,

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deeper information around
how do you get parents

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to the place where they're
good with everything,

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so just wanted to give you
that quick little history

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so you know where it came from.

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It just didn't pop up here.

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