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Doug Judge, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor

Dr. Doug Judge has more than 25 years of experience in education, administration, large-scale implementation in schools, social work, and youth services. His career has focused on addressing systemic inequities in influential public institutions. As a social worker in foster care and schools, and as a juvenile probation officer, he was disturbed by the stratification and disproportionality he witnessed. He served as a special education teacher in a variety of public and institutional school settings, and as a school administrator at a large public alternative high school in Seattle, focused on providing restorative and healing-centered wraparound supports. As the Director of Social and Emotional Learning for Highline Public Schools, Doug led the districtwide implementation of restorative practices, positive behavior supports, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Doug also offered coaching in schools and districts across Washington State with the Center for High School Success, and he taught research methods courses for doctoral students at Antioch University.

Doug’s research interests include international comparative approaches to inclusive and restorative practices, multi-tiered restorative practices in schools across the prevention continuum, positive behavior supports, school mental health, trauma and resilience, antiracist SEL and leadership, and alternatives to exclusionary discipline.

Doug earned his Master of Arts in Teaching at Western Washington University. He also earned his BA in Social Welfare, his Principal and Program Administrator Certificate, and his Ph.D. in Special Education at the University of Washington. 

Selected Publications:
  • Judge, D. (2020). Implementing SEL Equitably as a School District: RULER Partnerships Using Parent and Community Funds of Knowledge. RULER National Implementation Conference, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University
  • Judge, D. (2017). Restorative Justice Practices in Juvenile Detention: Cross-Facility Partnerships. Washington State Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction Institutional Education Student Support Conference.
  • Judge, D. M. (2016b). Restorative justice as paternal benevolence. In J. G. Richardson, J. Wu., & D. M. Judge (Eds.), The global convergence of vocational and special education: Mass schooling and modern educability (pp. 205-212). Routledge.
  • Judge, D. M. (2016a). Parental vs. professional authority: Communal benevolence and special education practices in Mexico. In J. G. Richardson, J. Wu., & D. M. Judge (Eds.), The global convergence of vocational and special education: Mass schooling and modern educability (pp. 112-141). Routledge.
  • Walker, S., Judge, D., Bishop, A. S., Blacker, B., & Trupin, E. (2014). Washington State mental health diversion guidebook: A guide for juvenile courts. University of Washington and the Center for Children & Youth Justice.
  • Richardson, J. G., & Judge, D. (2011).  Rights, liberties and education in “least” and “most” restrictive settings: The contrasting futures of public education and state institutions.  In J. G. Richardson & J. J. Powell (Eds.), Comparing special education: Origins to contemporary paradoxes (pp. 238-257).  Stanford University Press.