Our Mission
The Transformative Justice in Education Center (TJE) is a
community-university collaborative serving practitioners and
researchers committed to disrupting racial inequities in
education by creating restorative, humanizing, justice-seeking
teaching and learning communities.
Focus Areas
- Restorative and Transformative Justice Practices
- Teacher Education
- Community centered/humanizing research methods
What we do
- TJE provides an intellectual home for classroom teachers
and/or restorative justice practitioners who are seeking ways to
create and sustain a restorative culture in their teaching and
learning communities
- TJE prepares teaching trainers and preservice teachers across
content areas in restorative justice practices—or what we refer
to as a Restorative Justice Teacher Education (RJTE)—which
includes circle keeper facilitation and developing Restorative
Justice Discourses (RJDs) that support conversations about race,
class, gender, and privilege
- TJE supports undergraduate and graduate students researchers
committed to humanizing research methodologies and approaches
that seek to disrupt inequities in education
- TJE provides technical assistance to universities committed
to implementing and sustaining restorative justice practices on
campus
