Replacing punitive and exclusionary discipline practices with ones rooted in fostering engagement, belonging, and meaningful accountability is necessary to reduce the harm that traditional school discipline practices creates. On today's show, we are discussing how restorative practices will not only help us restore the humanity in our students, it will also help us restore the humanity in ourselves.
Joining me today is the wonderful Whitney Hawkins, M.Ed. She is a native of Dallas, TX. She received her bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Studies from Prairie View A&M University in 2009 and she received her Masters in Curriculum and Instruction in Urban Education from Texas A&M in 2019. She has been teaching for 11 years in Richardson ISD. And for the past five years has served as a campus reading specialist at a Title 1 school and she is an advocate for restorative practices in place of zero tolerance policies in the classroom.
