SEM-5500 - Restorative Justice and Other Alternatives to Student Discipline

Semester Credits: 3 Weeks: 8

This course offers a distinct opportunity to investigate restorative justice paradigms available for enhancing the safety, security, and emergency management of K-12 schools. You will discover ways in which restorative justice practices can prevent safety and security issues by promoting positive values and relationships. You will examine alternatives to student discipline such as PBIS, SEL, and trauma-informed classrooms and how they enrich safe school objectives as well as keeping students in schools. You will also investigate social justice in education and the school to prison pipeline. Throughout the course, you will consider the reciprocal influences of restorative justice paradigms and social justice with school safety, security, and emergency management.