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“Restorative justice assumes that the accused student has admitted fault, which quickly shifts the focus toward the future—what can be done to make things right. Less attention is paid to procedures than to the participants and manifesting an authentic and engaged dialogue. The goals are to have the parties gain a deeper understanding of one another, acknowledge the harm caused by the offense, repair the damage to the extent possible, and strengthen the students’ relationships with each other and with the institution.”
― David Reed Karp, Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges Universities: Repairing Harm and Rebuilding Trust in Response to Student Misconduct

“How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we’re living. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― James M. Strock, Serve to Lead: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System

“You can transform your life into a masterpiece of service, based on the decisions you make minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.”
― James M. Strock, Serve to Lead: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System

“—Select your inner circle with care. Your choice of those who populate your inner and outer lives is of defining significance.”
― James M. Strock, Serve to Lead: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System

“Covering,” Yoshino says, “is a strategy through which an individual downplays a known stigmatized identity to blend into the mainstream.”
― Trudy Bourgeois, Equality: Courageous Conversations About Women, Men, and Race to Spark a Diversity and Inclusion Breakthrough

“If we agree that covering robs us of showing up authentically, then we must also agree that finding the courage to create a new future requires women, people of color and those in the LGBT community to stop covering.”
― Trudy Bourgeois, Equality: Courageous Conversations About Women, Men, and Race to Spark a Diversity and Inclusion Breakthrough

“The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

“With every choice you make, be conscious of what need it serves.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

“Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children (and adults) with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“Learning to spot “that stuff ”—whether it is racist, or sexist, or classist—is an important skill for children to develop.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won’t have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.”
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“The essence of equity is that each of us must develop the necessary skills to treat the collective of diverse people around us with the same degree of hope, aspiration, and positive expectation that we afford ourselves.”
― Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton, Equity 101- The Equity Framework: Book 1

“The challenge with racial privilege is that the recipient does not need to know of its existence in order to benefit from it.”
― Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton, Equity 101- The Equity Framework: Book 1

“An equitable educator will acknowledge that just because it worked for me does not mean it works for my students. Passion for equity leads to a creative process of building a new educational system that works for all students and all educators all of the time.”
― Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton, Equity 101- The Equity Framework: Book 1

“Equity is about the “tomorrows” for our students and children. Equity provides an educational experience wherein all students can succeed because they are individually accepted, understood, and supported by the educators within the school. With equity, every student owns his or her future. With equity, excellence is found.”
― Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton, Equity 101- The Equity Framework: Book 1

“Weather the storm, because sometimes blessings come in unexpected packages.”
― Angela Howell, Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness

“Welcome the winds of change—they bring tomorrow’s gifts!”
― Angela Howell, Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness

“Be that person today, the one you’ll be when the change is in place. Get up tomorrow morning when your future, changed person would get up.”
― Angela Howell, Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness

“Whatever season of life you’re in today, embrace it. Grow. Learn. Rejuvenate. Change is underway.”
― Angela Howell, Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness

“To truly become more culturally competent and racially aware, we must do our own work. We need to purposefully put ourselves in situations where we are the cultural “other,” a place where many of our students find themselves on a daily basis in our schools and classrooms.”
― Steven Grineski, Talking About Race: Alleviating the Fear

“Give gratitude today for wherever you are in the process. Celebrate everything, not just the harvest. Count it all as joy!”
― Angela Howell, Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness

“You are so articulate.” Translated by a person of color as, “I can’t believe someone from your race is so smart.”
― Trudy Bourgeois, Equality: Courageous Conversations About Women, Men, and Race to Spark a Diversity and Inclusion Breakthrough

“I have several friends who are from your culture.” Translated by the person of color as, “I am not racist. See? I have friends of color.”
― Trudy Bourgeois, Equality: Courageous Conversations About Women, Men, and Race to Spark a Diversity and Inclusion Breakthrough

“Becoming resilient starts with the realization that the adversity you experience—any pain, discrimination, or challenge—can be converted into powerful fuel that can actually bring opportunity.”
― Christian Moore, The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action

“Relationships with mutual authenticity are stronger and last longer, and since relationships are the lifeblood of resilience, being vulnerable, in my opinion, is a prerequisite for resilience.”
― Christian Moore, The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action

“Cultivating a growth mindset means you like a challenge, enjoy effort, and learn from mistakes. In other words, a growth mindset is a resilient mindset!”
― Christian Moore, The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action

“To stay on the cutting edge, we must be aware of current literature in our fields, use technology, and engage in conversations with others that help sharpen our ideas, broaden our perspectives, and abide in cultural humility.”
― Karen A Longman, Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education