The Greater Middletown Community Collaborative May's Meeting

At our May meeting of the Greater Middletown Community Collaborative, we will be showing the documentary Growing Fairness, by Teachers Unite, followed by a discussion! Tuesday, May 4th 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Via Zoom.

As part of our on-going effort to promote restorative communities, Growing Fairness will provide us another to delve into the values of RJ work, and imagine what our systems can be if we focused on community/relationships as opposed to punishment/zero tolerance.

Words from Teachers Unite:
Growing Fairness is a short documentary film about “growing” restorative justice practices in public schools in New York City and Oakland, CA. Often, passionate educators lead these cultural shifts in schools. Growing Fairness examines the historical and political context for their resistance against the norm. It also shares the voices of youth who have seized the opportunity to lead, transforming their schools and themselves in the process. You can watch the trailer here!

We will follow a showing of the documentary with a discussion on how to apply the restorative justice lessons learned to our own work.

We hope to see you there! Zoom link to follow early next week.
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See an overview of the GMCC/LIST mission statement HERE.
Greater Middletown Community Collaborative
The GMCC serves as both the System of Care for the Greater Middletown area and the LIST for the entire Middletown Court District. Meetings are typically held on the first Tuesday of the month at 9am and all are welcome.

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