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DETROIT RISING: How the Motor City Becomes a Restorative City
There’s the Detroit story you know and the one you don’t. For decades, the predominant story we’ve heard about Detroit is one of violence, crime, unemployment, and urban blight. But there’s more than meets the Eight-Mile. Restorative Practices Pioneer Ted Wachtel, recruits Kerra Bolton, a disillusioned ex-pat writer to document black-led, grassroots efforts in Detroit to restore relationships, repair harm, and build social capital through restorative practices. Join Kerra as she explores the impact of restorative practices in Detroit’s classrooms, courts, and executive boardrooms and views Detroit through the lens of a man whose family tragedy led to his vision of Detroit as a restorative city.
Episode #1 Detroit Rising series: There’s the Detroit story you know and the one you don’t. For decades, the predominant story we’ve heard about Detroit is one of violence, crime, unemployment, and urban blight. But there’s more than meets the Eight-Mile.
Episode #2 Detroit Rising series: There’s the Detroit story you know and the one you don’t. For decades, the predominant story we’ve heard about Detroit is one of violence, crime, unemployment, and urban blight. But there’s more than meets the Eight-Mile.
Episode #3 Detroit Rising series: Two weeks before the start of a new school year, Hope Academy, grapples with the challenge of sustaining a restorative practices culture amidst staff changes & student expectations.
Episode #4 Detroit Rising series: Students often feel like a cog in the wheel of their own education. Rhonda Calloway demonstrates how creating authentic relationships with students through restorative practices circles is critical to academic achievement.
Episode #5 Detroit Rising series: Alice Thompson, a Detroit nonprofit leader, demonstrates how to be a servant leader during times of business transition.