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Implementing Restorative Justice: A Guide for Schools

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Field guide for educators to implement restorative justice techniques at school.

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A life-long educator, Benjamin Ludwig is a K-8 librarian in New Hampshire. He is the author of Ginny Moon, published by HarperCollins/Park Row Books. His next book, a young adult novel titled OUTSIDE, is about a homeless teenager who stops a school shooting, and must then out-maneuver the educational philanthropist who seeks to exploit his fame. You can connect with Benjamin at www.benjaminludwig.com.

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Sensemaking and Cybernetics in Classroom Teaching w/ Christian Moore-Anderson

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March 8, 2025

Biology teacher Christian Moore-Anderson talks about how teachers can become better communicators by thinking in cybernetics

Today I’m joined by Christian Moore-Anderson. And I wanted to have Christian on to talk about the ideas that drive his teaching practice and that he shares in his book, Difference Maker: Enacting systems theory in biology teaching. While that title may seem daunting, Christian’s teaching would immediately look and feel to observers like “just good teaching.” But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Informing his theory and practice of teaching is a set of related ideas that I was largely unfamiliar with before encountering it in his book: cybernetics, systems theory, and enactivism. Cybernetics is simply a feedback loop. Just as someone steering a ship adjusts the rudder based on feedback from the ocean, so too does good pedagogy depend on what Christian calls “recursive teaching”, or a constant feedback loop of action, interpretation, and learning between teachers and students.

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Christian graduated with a degree in microbiology but wishes he had the time and money to study all fields of biology. He has special interests in systems thinking and wishes he hadn’t dropped maths so early. He now works in an international school in Spain, likes to blog about biology pedagogy. You can connect with Christian on BlueSky @cmooreanderson.bsky.social.