Restorative Justice at Fremont

Restorative Justice is a set of practices that challenges us to develop solutions from our authentic selves. In society, an RJ approach opens up possibilities for addressing harm and wrongdoing that don’t involve criminalization. In educational settings, RJ provides alternatives to punitive discipline, which in turn promotes positive school culture including safety, emphasis on learning and creativity, respect, and responsibility.

At Fremont, we integrate RJ at all levels:

Tier I RELATE circles help students, teachers and staff relate to one another, build community, learn and practice empathy.

Tier 2 REPAIR circles, conversations, and mediations address harm and conflict, recover, repair the relationship, make agreements for moving forward.

Tier 3 RESTORE circles welcome students who have been suspended or are returning from juvenile detention/extended absence.

Student Leadership

Student Circle-Keepers design and run their own circles in classrooms, advisories, and after school programs. They participate in regular RJ trainings and become peacebuilders for the school and wider community.

Coordinator

Ms. Chatterjee (Tatiana Chaterji) is a proud staff member at Fremont High School. She has been facilitating peacemaking, healing, and community circles since 2010 in schools, neighborhood settings, juvenile justice and prisons. Her personal journey and survivorship has taught her that “hurt people hurt people.” Ms. Chatterjee is dedicated to interrupting cycles of violence, to uplifting youth voice, and to bridging theater arts and storytelling with restorative practices, dialogue and reconciliation.

RESOURCES

Restorative Justice in OUSD: Whole School Implementation Guide

Project NIA: Chicago-based art project that promotes restorative approach to harm

Report from 2017-18

OUSD prohibits unlawful discrimination (such as discriminatory harassment, intimidation, or bullying) against any student, employee, or other person participating in district programs and activities, including, but not limited to, those programs or activities funded directly by or that receive or benefit from any state financial assistance, based on the person's actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55 or equity or compliance with Title IX, or based on his/her association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics (5 CCR 4610). BOARD POLICY 0410. BOARD POLICY 1312.3. BOARD POLICY 4030. BOARD POLICY 5143.3. BOARD POLICY 5145.7. Complaint forms are available at school sites, on the district webpage at www.ousd.org/ombudsperson, at the Office of the Ombudsperson located at 1000 Broadway, 1st Floor, Suite 150, Oakland, CA 94607, via email at gabriel.valenzuela@ousd.org, or via telephone 510-879-4281.

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