Ron & Roxanne Claassen

Ron Claassen (MA, MDiv., DMin.)  Professor Emeritus, Co-Founder and Director (1990 – 2011) of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific University, founder (1982) of the Fresno County Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, the first in California.   Ron is an accomplished author, and trainer (US and abroad) in conflict resolution, restorative justice, and peacemaking and has received numerous awards for his work.

Roxanne Claassen, BA, MA (Peacemaking and Conflict Studies)  Retired Master Teacher and School Conflict Resolution Specialist.  Roxanne taught her last 14 years in 8^th grade where she pioneered Discipline That Restores, a classroom and school-wide restorative justice discipline program. She also served as school peer mediation coordinator and school discipline coach at two other schools until retirement.  Roxanne has received accolades for her work including “Teacher of the Year” (2x).

Ron and Roxanne as a team:  Served with Mennonite Central Committee Teachers Abroad in Nigeria 1968-1971.  Since 2010 they have trained teachers and administrators in the theory of restorative justice.  They have worked with thousands in CA, throughout the US and beyond (India, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Lithuania, Cambodia, Spain, Israel, Paraguay).  They are the authors of Disciplne That Restores and the curriculum for training mediators,  Making Things Right.

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Darlene Hein

Darlene M. Hein loves to sing and to lead others in singing.  Currently, she is teaching music at the New Danville Campus of Lancaster Mennonite School.  She has served as a guest conductor and clinician and was Artistic Director of the Mennonite Children’s Choir of Lancaster for nine years.  She and her husband are active members of Neffsville Mennonite Church.

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