About me
Jason Smith is currently the Dean of Students at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville, IL. He started his journey at Dundee-Crown in August 2015 and is still enjoying his tenure as Dean of Students. Jason is charged with shaping the collective climate and culture of the school and engaging others in building a positive school culture. Additionally, Jason is the Owner/Trainer/Facilitator for RestoreTogether. Jason is an active transformational leader in the area of Restorative Practices. He is often called the Zen Master, due to his peaceful positivity. Jason has been a trainer, facilitator, and practitioner of Restorative Practices for over 10 years and is still evolving in his craft and love for the organic process of building community and repairing harm. He is an advocate for building a positive and equitable climate and culture within the school and community environments through the use of mindful awareness and disruption of unbalanced systems. Jason is also an Adjunct Professor at Rockford University in Rockford, IL. He is an instructor in a Principal Preparation Graduate Program in the area of Urban Education and teaches a course in Community Partnerships. Before his tenure at Dundee-Crown, Jason was the Behavioral Interventionist at Irving Middle School in Maywood, Illinois. Jason was part of a team that fully implemented Restorative Practices successfully in the school and neighborhood community. Before working at Irving Middle School, Jason taught first grade at The Einstein Academy, a gifted school in Elgin, Illinois for ten years.
