What is the first thing you do in the morning when you get out of bed? Whose land do you wake up on? What is the history of how the land came to be there for you?As part of our series: Expanding the Breath, expanding Restorative Justice into

What do you know about your family? Part 2

Jan 13th, 2021 38m 51s

“Restorative Justice work extends beyond the school.” In our training, CCEJ complicates individual views of trauma by acknowledging the historical roots of trauma in white supremacy, colonization, capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy. Having this de

What do you know about your family? Part 1

Jan 13th, 2021 46m 14s

What do you know about restorative leadership?

Jan 12th, 2021 1h 8m

“Without racial justice there is no justice at my school site.” Making Restorative Justice a reality requires dedication from school leaders through everyday choices. Joining us this episode is Suzanne Caverly, a middle school principal in the

What do you know about ‘No one is disposable’

Dec 9th, 2020 55m 38s

“If you disagree with the prison system, then you should not agree or practice exclusionary discipline.” This episode we sit with Tobin Paap, School Culture Specialist with Green Dot Public Schools California, to discuss the role creativity and

Episode 14: What do you know about restorative leadership?

Dec 2nd, 2020 1h 8m

What do you know about humanizing yourself to students?

Oct 21st, 2020 48m 10s

“Mentorship matters. I became a teacher to connect with young students, who had negative experiences in education.”In this episode with speak with High School Math Teacher, Victor J. Lee, about how he attempts to engage and meet students' nee

What do you know about a culture of trust in the classroom?

Oct 7th, 2020 46m 19s

“If they’re not trying, that means they don’t trust me” The COVID-19 Pandemic has transformed our world. Schools have been at the center of responses to the evolving pandemic as they are at the heart of many communities. The question of how s

What do you know about restorative culture at school?

Oct 1st, 2020 1h 15m

“The definition of restorative culture is building relationships”Guest: Kim Plaza, Assistant Principal, Camino Nuevo BurlingtonThis season we will be hearing from some of our school partners who CCEJ has supported with training and coaching

Spirit in Respiration: Breathe Your Story

Apr 8th, 2020 54m 45s

In the first episode of our series: Healing in the Community, we meet Educator, Poet and Yogi, Melvin Boyce II, about his journey with yoga and how his young students from Kindergarten to incarcerated or systems impacted youth inspired his jour

Check-In Chicken Favorite Check in Questions

Mar 19th, 2020 38m 47s

Care Bears, Dinosaurs, Nature, Love and Chickens. Come eat and join us at the table for this ‘mini-lunch-time’ episode to demonstrate the role of a Check In Question in community building. I sat down with work friends & RJ Practitioners, Jamel

Because of what I do, I know that possibility exists

Dec 18th, 2019 1h

Former Counselor and Restorative Justice practitioner Tanya Suzuki gets on the mic for our last episode of Season 1. This last one begins with a discussion around wellness, accountability, and the introduction of Sharim Hannegan-Martinez’s Comp

Even if I don’t do RJ professionally, RJ is a part of me

Dec 11th, 2019 1h 2m

Do schools need a full time person in care of this work or are they best supported through a coaching model? This episode is a little geeky as we talk specifically about implementation within a school with veteran practitioner, Joseph Luciani,

What is the function and vision of a school?

Dec 4th, 2019 1h 27m

Practitioner and scholar, Taharka Anderson, gets his turn on the mic as he breaks down schools as indicators of society and the treatment of students of color representing oppressions of these communities on a nationwide scale. He talks about h

How does Restorative Justice and Theater connect?

Nov 27th, 2019 56m

In this fun episode, host Jenny Escobar asks guest Gilbert Salazar about how theater, play and creativity connect to the work of Restorative Practices. Gilbert gives stories of how he has leaned into creativity as a tool for intervention when t

How has Restorative Justice influenced how you inhabit this body?

Nov 19th, 2019 1h 4m

Recorded over a year of work in schools, previous RJ in Schools Director and current generative somatics teacher in training and somatic learning practitioner, Belia Mayeno Saavedra, speaks with host Taharka Anderson about how Restorative Justi

How does Spirituality impact your facilitation style?

Nov 13th, 2019 40m 55s

Dr. Jenny Escobar shares her journey of bringing spirituality, specifically intuition in her work with Restorative Justice from preparing herself to preparing training spaces. She shares how her use of intuition impacts participants, how ancest

What does team sports have to do with Restorative Justice?

Nov 4th, 2019 38m 2s

In our debut episode, we talk to former RJ Coordinator, Pierre Davis, who lays out his work with young women identified and men identified middle school students in Long Beach, the connections between sports and games in relationship building a

Teaser

Oct 8th, 2019 4m 34s

Welcome to Whatchu Know About RJ? Sharing Stories and Skills about Restorative Justice, a podcast of the California Conference for Equality and Justice. CCEJ is an organization dedicated to eliminating bias, bigotry and racism. This first serie

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