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South Bronx school uses advisory groups to craft restorative justice model

Sue-Ann Rosch founded the Community School for Social Justice in the South Bronx, where administrators used advisory groups to craft a Restorative Justice Model for student discipline and address rising student suspensions and chronic absences in a violent inner-city neighborhood.

Poverty, child abuse, and low achievement make forming character hard—but not impossible

Sue-Ann Rosch, founder of the Community School for Social Justice in the South Bronx, detailed the rampant school discipline problems that prompted a shift to a Restorative Justice approach during an Education Leaders Roundtable at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in March.

‘A work in progress’: Restorative justice in action at South Bronx high school

Sue-Ann Rosch, founder of the Community School for Social Justice in the South Bronx, explained how a Restorative Justice Model for student discipline helps her students resist their often violent reality to focus on academics—a story she calls “a work in progress.”

David Brooks: “What a wise person says is the least of that which he gives”

New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture’s Education Leaders Roundtable in March about why words matter in character education, while also acknowledging that “there’s shortcomings to words, even in the teaching business.”

David Brooks: what you pay attention to controls your will

David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, talked about how technology and social media contribute to a “crisis of attention” in March during a School Leaders Roundtable hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

David Brooks: All of life is basically a high school cafeteria

David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, discussed life in the context of a high school cafeteria at a School Leaders Roundtable at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in March 2017.