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DOE plans to expand and improve restorative practices
3:04:01
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Mark Rampersant, Chief of Safety, outlines the DOE's plans to expand and improve restorative practices in schools, while Council Member Rita Joseph emphasizes the importance of these programs for student well-being and public safety.
- DOE aims to infuse a greater social-emotional learning (SEL) component into restorative practices
- Plans to expand restorative practices to elementary schools
- Council member emphasizes the importance of SEL and mental health investments in schools
Mark Rampersant
3:04:01
So yes to the service of those schools, we are saying that.
3:04:05
As the chancellor mentioned in earlier conversations, we are looking at the holistic restorative practices to see how we can infuse a greater SCL component in there so that we're not only reaching our middle and high schools, we're also meeting our elementary schools as well.
3:04:23
So we'll be talking to you more about what that looks like so that we can get more granular about the overall understanding of restorative and people don't just perceive it to be circles, right?
3:04:34
We are meeting the whole child so we're absolutely anxious to have those conversations with you as we think about how we're remixing the whole model of restorative practices.
Rita Joseph
3:04:44
Yeah.
3:04:44
It needs a little remixing suspension.
3:04:47
And when we talk about public safety, these are the things we talk about.
3:04:50
Right?
3:04:50
So, Che Stevens and I can always agree on that.
3:04:53
Everything in schools attached to.
3:04:57
So by the time a young person picks up a gun, we failed.
3:05:01
We don't want to be failing.
3:05:03
We want to make sure we're delivering young people and and that includes the jobs we talk about, right?
3:05:07
And that includes the investments in mental health.
3:05:10
SEL should not be an option, it should be integrated into our curriculum, it should be second nature to our young people.
3:05:18
So when we talk about these investments, we we talk about this.