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Webinars

Explore our library or webinars, which includes webinars on the following topics:

Law Enforcement
LCFF & LCAP
Racial Bias & Discrimination
Restorative Justice & Restorative Practices
School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Social Emotional Learning

General Webinars

Let’s Fix School Discipline Webinar

In this webinar, Sarah Omojola of Public Counsel will lead you through a hands-on introduction to all the free tools available to California educators, students and parents through our How We Can Fix School Discipline Toolkit. Sarah is an education advocate and former teacher who understands the law and the challenges facing teachers and administrators.

CA School Safety Toolkit Webinar

This free webinar will introduce participants to the research evidence behind effective school safety approaches, review information on how the School Safety Toolkit was pilot-tested in California, and walk through the implementation process of the Toolkit itself.

LA County Juvenile Ticket Amnesty Webinar

In December 2015, LA County Juvenile Presiding Judge Levanas ordered amnesty for almost all juvenile infractions issued before the closure of the Informal Juvenile Traffic Court (IJTC) in 2012. Labor Community Strategy Center, Youth Justice Coalition, and Public Counsel advocated for this amnesty after supporting hundreds of young people in clearing old tickets.

Law Enforcement

Your Child’s Right to Stay In School : What You Need to Know

An interactive webinar for parents, youth, and those who support them about students’ rights in school discipline. Learn about the legal protections for students, including those with special needs, and how to advocate for yourself or your child. Find out more about strong alternatives to class and school removal that hold students accountable while also helping improve school success.

Mapping The School To Prison Pipeline

Do you want to fully understand how the school-to-prison pipeline operates cyclically and how a student’s suspension can lead to involvement with law enforcement and stalled social mobility?

Tia Martinez, Forward Change Consulting, and Sarah Omojola, Public Counsel and FixSchoolDiscipline.org, present “Mapping the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” This webinar will answer your questions about how out-of-school punishments can result in involvement with the criminal justice system, have health implications, and contribute to intergenerational poverty. This webinar uses data to provide a unique and detailed picture of how students and communities, especially those of color, are affected by punitive education policies.

LCFF & LCAP

Fixing School Discipline with LCFF

This webinar explores California’s Local Control Funding Formula, or LCFF. The new law promises to transform schools with resources for young people who most often face the negative impact of harsh school discipline, including foster youth, English language learners, and students from high-poverty areas. Find out how LCFF can promote alternatives to harsh school discipline. Learn what the changes will mean for schools and how educators can help reduce student suspensions to increase learning and improve student outcomes.

Racial Bias and Discrimination

Your Child’s Right to Stay In School : What You Need to Know

An interactive webinar for parents, youth, and those who support them about students’ rights in school discipline. Learn about the legal protections for students, including those with special needs, and how to advocate for yourself or your child. Find out more about strong alternatives to class and school removal that hold students accountable while also helping improve school success.

Dismantling Bias: Tools for the Classroom

In this interactive webinar, Chris Bridges, Zabrina Aleguire and Dr. Jason Okonofua build on social science insights about implicit bias to introduce emerging research into techniques that mitigate and reduce effects of bias in the classroom.

The presentation opens with an overview of implicit bias concepts and research, applying those insights to patterns of racially disproportionate impact in various settings including school discipline. Dr. Jason Okonofua, a professor at University of California Berkeley, then discusses research findings regarding techniques that may be used in the classroom that reduce the use of suspension and hold particularly significant improvement for students of color.

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Institutionalized Racism and Inequity: ‘Turning the Mirror Inward’ In Your District

Racial inequity and institutionalized racism manifest across systems, including in education, juvenile justice, health, and child welfare. When Joyce James became the head of the State of Texas’s Child Protective Services Program, she introduced a model to examine and address the disproportionate number of African American and Native American children in the Texas Foster Care System. The model included the examination of disproportionality in other systems, including education.

Restorative Justice & Restorative Practices

Restorative Justice in Schools: Highlights of Research and Practice in the U.S.

Partner Webinar 

In this webinar, Anthony Petrosino and Sarah Guckenburg, Senior Research Associates at WestEd, describe their research on restorative justice in U.S. schools. They conducted interviews with over 40 experts in the field, surveyed over 150 practitioners nationwide, and conducted a comprehensive literature review. Their research goals were to learn about current practices, essential elements of implementation, and provide recommendations for future research on restorative justice in K-12 settings.

Putting it Together Integrating Best Practices

This webinar features Placer County Director of Interagency Facilitation Michael Lombardo, San Francisco Unified Safe and Supportive Coaches Jenny Gibson and Jordan Paxhia, and Sarah Omojola, Public Counsel Statewide Education Rights Advocate talking about the best practices for integrating the implementation of Restorative Practices, School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, and Social-Emotional Learning within a school, across a district, or throughout a county.

Schoolwide Positive Behaviors and Supports

Putting it Together Integrating Best Practices

This webinar features Placer County Director of Interagency Facilitation Michael Lombardo, San Francisco Unified Safe and Supportive Coaches Jenny Gibson and Jordan Paxhia, and Sarah Omojola, Public Counsel Statewide Education Rights Advocate talking about the best practices for integrating the implementation of Restorative Practices, School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, and Social-Emotional Learning within a school, across a district, or throughout a county.

Social Emotional Learning

Putting it Together Integrating Best Practices

This webinar features Placer County Director of Interagency Facilitation Michael Lombardo, San Francisco Unified Safe and Supportive Coaches Jenny Gibson and Jordan Paxhia, and Sarah Omojola, Public Counsel Statewide Education Rights Advocate talking about the best practices for integrating the implementation of Restorative Practices, School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, and Social-Emotional Learning within a school, across a district, or throughout a county.

Trauma Sensitive Strategies

Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in School Discipline

Research shows adverse childhood experiences and trauma are related to school drop out, particularly for children of color. Learning social emotional skills helps students succeed in school and life. This Fix School Discipline webinar focuses on fostering students’ strength to overcome trauma and violence. Instead of saying “what is wrong with you?” educators can learn to ask “what has happened to you?”