This blog is one of the primary ways we share core ideas and new developments in the Building A New Reality movement.
The Best of BANR #5 – Can Better Workplaces Make Detroit a Better City?
by Mary Shafer In this final installment of our Best of BANR to date series, we revisit Kerra L. Bolton’s piece on the Enterprise facet of societal need in Detroit….
The Best of BANR #4 – What Doctors Can Learn From Patients
A look back at an original post, in which BANR founder Ted Wachtel shared his delight at discovering, in an article, evidence that healthcare professionals are beginning to create a positive new reality in their approach to their work.
The Best of BANR #3 – How Restorative Practices Helped Me to Trust the Police
A look back at Kerra L. Bolton’s very personal journey from fear and terror toward law enforcement officers to awareness and understanding.
The Best of BANR #2 – Measuring the Marigolds
In his original post, BANR founder Ted Wachtel gives his overview of the folly of school grading. It’s a good introduction to the foundational BANR belief that it’s long past time that we re-examine our slavish devotion to the traditional classroom.
“Best of BANR” #1 – The Post That Started It All
Revisiting the first post on this blog, which lays out the framework of this foundational idea to the BANR concept and explains the genesis of this movement before it even had a name.
Student Government Reimagined – Part 4
This is the final in a four-part series about Democracy in Practice’s work replacing student elections with lotteries in schools in Bolivia. It speaks to students learning early about ways…
Student Government Reimagined – Part 3
This is the third in a four-part series about Democracy in Practice’s work replacing student elections with lotteries in schools in Bolivia. It speaks to students learning early about ways…
Student Government Reimagined – Part 2
This is the second in a four-part series about Democracy in Practice’s work replacing student elections with lotteries in schools in Bolivia. It speaks to students learning early about ways…
Student Government Reimagined – Part 1
Democracy In Practice is changing the way student governments are formed and how they work, making them more diverse and representative of student bodies.
Restorative Practices: A Science of Human Dignity
Restorative practices provide a simple framework to give people a voice in a noisy world, and agency at a time when global events happen faster and with more frequency than we have the time to keep up with. Restorative practices are indeed a social science that allow us to fully express and experience our humanity with dignity.
