Discipline Over Punishment is an exploration of the transformative potential of restorative discipline practices in schools ranging from the microlevel of oneonone interactions with students to the macrolevel of rerouting the schooltoprison pipeline and improving life outcomes for young people. Gardner who continues to teach high school in Oakland CA has spent nearly 20 years innovating struggling and succeeding to implement various restorative justice practices in classrooms and schools around the Bay Area. Using classrooms and schools where he has taught and students families and educators with whom he has worked Gardner examines how restorative justice as a set of beliefs and practices can be a force for justice and equity in our classrooms schools and beyond.