For over a hundred years educational thinkers have returned to the ideas of doing “with” rather than “to” students; the importance of community; teaching the whole person; and thinking critically about issues of power and oppression. 

Youth living with socially devalued characteristics (minority sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, obesity) experience frequent stigma-based bullying, leading to feelings of shame.

Our communications manager Rachel Saudek has a really cool day job. She has been working for a sailing non-profit in the San Francisco Bay that brings students from all over the Bay Area out to experience life on the water and learn about their local ecology from a new perspective. During one of our Zoom meetings, we three mused over the many connections between experiential learning and the Restorative approach, and this blog was born.