WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.583 (upbeat music) 2 00:00:05.220 --> 00:00:08.290 - Welcome, I am so happy that you came today. 3 00:00:08.290 --> 00:00:10.990 You're going to experience a circle. 4 00:00:10.990 --> 00:00:12.640 Now, when I say experience, 5 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:14.570 that means there's nobody taking notes. 6 00:00:14.570 --> 00:00:15.810 You don't have to do any of that. 7 00:00:15.810 --> 00:00:18.650 You're going to be the notes so when we're done with this, 8 00:00:18.650 --> 00:00:21.630 you'll have an idea of what this is all about. 9 00:00:21.630 --> 00:00:23.870 Before I begin, I'd like to give you a brief history 10 00:00:23.870 --> 00:00:26.620 about restorative discipline practices. 11 00:00:26.620 --> 00:00:30.720 It just didn't come to the map today, it came a while ago. 12 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:34.570 In 1958, this is abbreviated, remember, abbreviated, short. 13 00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:36.920 I could have added much, much more but I didn't, 14 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:41.543 so in 1958, a man by the name of Albert Eglash 15 00:00:42.820 --> 00:00:45.950 coined the term restorative justice. 16 00:00:45.950 --> 00:00:48.400 As we move through the century, the decades, 17 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:52.000 we have in 1970 and 1980s 18 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.840 Howard Zehr, Ron Claassen, and Mark Umbreit 19 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.700 began the victim-offender mediatiation in the United States. 20 00:01:00.700 --> 00:01:03.650 In 1988, the University of Minnesota 21 00:01:03.650 --> 00:01:06.070 opened up a center for peace. 22 00:01:06.070 --> 00:01:08.330 In 1990s into the 2000s, 23 00:01:08.330 --> 00:01:11.600 the expression restorative justice took off. 24 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:14.381 It became so popular and widespread 25 00:01:14.381 --> 00:01:16.270 everyone was talking about it. 26 00:01:16.270 --> 00:01:18.170 A woman by the name of Kay Pranis, 27 00:01:18.170 --> 00:01:20.130 whom I have a lot of books down there 28 00:01:20.130 --> 00:01:21.260 that she has co-authored, 29 00:01:21.260 --> 00:01:24.330 she is known as the Queen or the Mother of Circles. 30 00:01:24.330 --> 00:01:25.423 This is her thing. 31 00:01:26.730 --> 00:01:30.850 Kay Pranis, in 1996, implemented circles with adults, 32 00:01:30.850 --> 00:01:33.560 juvenile justice systems, social workers, 33 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.300 school social workers, work places, neighborhoods, 34 00:01:37.300 --> 00:01:39.850 mediation programs, churches, and families. 35 00:01:39.850 --> 00:01:40.880 As you can see, 36 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:44.060 this is something or two that can be used anywhere, 37 00:01:44.060 --> 00:01:46.740 and I'll tell you a few funny stories of when I began 38 00:01:46.740 --> 00:01:49.670 and you'll be cracking up because I tried it on my family. 39 00:01:49.670 --> 00:01:50.800 Bad idea. 40 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:52.550 Anyway, (laughing) 41 00:01:52.550 --> 00:01:57.150 anyway, in 2000 to 2008, the restorative justice movement 42 00:01:57.150 --> 00:02:01.260 attracts segments of society, including police officers, 43 00:02:01.260 --> 00:02:04.040 judges, school teachers, politicians, 44 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:06.843 juvenile justice agencies like DAEP, 45 00:02:08.030 --> 00:02:11.343 victim support groups, and Aborigine elders. 46 00:02:12.563 --> 00:02:15.290 The University of Texas also, in 2008, 47 00:02:15.290 --> 00:02:19.040 opened up the Restorative Justice Dialogue Institute. 48 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:23.530 That came out of Ed White Middle School in San Antonio. 49 00:02:23.530 --> 00:02:26.730 They began using circles to reduce 50 00:02:26.730 --> 00:02:29.030 the number of discipline referrals. 51 00:02:29.030 --> 00:02:31.200 They knew they were on to something. 52 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:33.200 They weren't the only one in the state that did it, 53 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:35.720 but because the University of Texas took them on 54 00:02:35.720 --> 00:02:39.720 to coddify their process and get all their data together 55 00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:41.570 so somebody could see what happened, 56 00:02:41.570 --> 00:02:43.821 they found that they dropped their referrals 57 00:02:43.821 --> 00:02:46.420 by 30% the first year. 58 00:02:46.420 --> 00:02:48.600 So that means if he dropped a pencil, 59 00:02:48.600 --> 00:02:50.320 you didn't automatically say get out. 60 00:02:50.320 --> 00:02:51.970 There was another method to do that, 61 00:02:51.970 --> 00:02:53.800 because most of the referrals as you know 62 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.180 come from small things. 63 00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:59.240 He says that when they went to Ed White they decided 64 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:01.590 that it was really a good idea to continue 65 00:03:01.590 --> 00:03:03.810 and they started with one grade level, the next grade level, 66 00:03:03.810 --> 00:03:06.250 after three years all of them were involved. 67 00:03:06.250 --> 00:03:08.580 So I was very happy to know that they did 68 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:09.930 drop the discipline referrals, 69 00:03:09.930 --> 00:03:11.810 and it gives teachers another opportunity 70 00:03:11.810 --> 00:03:13.770 to find another way to engage with students, 71 00:03:13.770 --> 00:03:14.890 and so this process is 72 00:03:14.890 --> 00:03:16.910 what you're going to be learning today. 73 00:03:16.910 --> 00:03:19.740 In addition to that, Robert Rico, 74 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:21.901 the University of Texas in San Antonio, 75 00:03:21.901 --> 00:03:24.370 was the one who talked to the principle's wife 76 00:03:24.370 --> 00:03:26.400 because she was in his class, 77 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.210 and so she brought it to her husband at Ed White, 78 00:03:29.210 --> 00:03:31.930 and Ed White took it on, and after that, 79 00:03:31.930 --> 00:03:34.080 Robert said you might want to get all of this coddified 80 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.730 so the University of Texas in Austin coddified their process 81 00:03:37.730 --> 00:03:39.240 and that's how it took off, 82 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:40.840 and I'm gonna tell you another person's name, 83 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:43.600 and some of you may know him, Jim Welsh? 84 00:03:43.600 --> 00:03:46.200 He's a special education attorney, big name, 85 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:47.033 and guess what he did? 86 00:03:47.033 --> 00:03:49.350 He wrote an op-ed piece about restorative, 87 00:03:49.350 --> 00:03:51.290 and soon as he wrote it, (snaps) 88 00:03:51.290 --> 00:03:52.530 it went like fire, 89 00:03:52.530 --> 00:03:55.676 and now everybody wants to know how to do it, so. 90 00:03:55.676 --> 00:04:00.676 In 2014, 2015, Texas Education Agency decided to partner 91 00:04:00.990 --> 00:04:02.820 with the University of Texas, 92 00:04:02.820 --> 00:04:05.940 and decided to roll this out statewide 93 00:04:05.940 --> 00:04:06.820 through the service centers. 94 00:04:06.820 --> 00:04:09.020 We have someone from the service center here today, 95 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:10.760 and she's aware of it as well, 96 00:04:10.760 --> 00:04:12.920 and so those 20 service centers, 97 00:04:12.920 --> 00:04:15.080 we do an administrative training for two days, 98 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:16.900 and we teach them this process, 99 00:04:16.900 --> 00:04:18.460 much more information of course, 100 00:04:18.460 --> 00:04:21.810 and then there's a coordinator trained for five days, 101 00:04:21.810 --> 00:04:25.630 and that five day training goes into deeper relationships, 102 00:04:25.630 --> 00:04:28.450 deeper information around how do you get parents 103 00:04:28.450 --> 00:04:30.280 to the place where they're good with everything, 104 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:33.210 so just wanted to give you that quick little history 105 00:04:33.210 --> 00:04:34.410 so you know where it came from. 106 00:04:34.410 --> 00:04:36.577 It just didn't pop up here. 107 00:04:36.577 --> 00:04:39.160 (upbeat music)