黑料专区

After months of imagining and planning, the first iteration of 黑料专区鈥檚 Institutes for Justice and Transformational Change launched this past week and was a rousing success. The Institute, entitled鈥�Restorative Justice and Practices: Strengthening Relationships鈥攚as a comprehensive professional development opportunity, which focused on many layers of restorative justice, including its origins, principles, storytelling, theory and practice, and more!

鈥淲e want you to create the framework for your school communities that result in a positive impact to the self,鈥� BFS Head of School, Crissy C谩ceres, told the participants. 鈥淭his is a time in which you cannot disconnect the self from the work that you are learning. They will become fused. 鈥� I believe that we should be proselytizing about things that are good for the human experience and this institute is one of those things.鈥�

The three-day institute was facilitated by some of the biggest names in the field, including BFS鈥� own Director of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, Dr. AnaMaria Correa, and Head of Middle School, Nitya York.

鈥淧eople were willing to be vulnerable with each other and to go deep, even with people that they just met,鈥� said Jay Rapp, BFS鈥� Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives and Alumni Relations, as well as the architect of the Institutes for Justice and Transformational Change. 鈥淭he participants are taking back not just what they received here from the program, but they are taking back the connections that they made over the past three days 鈥� and that鈥檚 what we had hoped for when we imagined the Institutes for Justice and Transformational Change.鈥�

Twenty-five educators from around the nation traveled to Downtown Brooklyn for this debut institute and had nothing but positive things to say as the week drew to a close.

鈥淚t felt really good that the ethos [of BFS] to the summer institute,鈥� said Joh谩ra Tucker, Chief of Equity and Belonging at The Dalton School in Manhattan. 鈥淔eeling held, feeling seen, being able to just be in quiet鈥擨 think that has helped us as a cohort really do this work together.鈥�

to watch a video highlighting the institute.

to view a photo gallery from the institute.