https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11rYsmFMpwCQhFhsqdM2BmMbn-ECGTfW6fDwxOpzMvjw/edit?usp=sharing

Padlet full of Resources: https://padlet.com/vsmall/TheEpicRJPadlet

Restorative Practices

  • 80% community circles
  • Sometimes you need the smaller circles to support a kid or a group of kids with their individual needs.
  • 20% repairing what may have caused harm.

Tangible items for a talking piece.  Kids often get to choose

Talking Circles

  •  The key point for building empathy.
  • Character and strength is a focus(as well as empathy).  

Activities:

  • Roses and Thorns
  • Great things that happen and things that hurt or was troublesome

Restorative Practice Continuum

 

From: https://www.iirp.edu/defining-restorative/restorative-practices-continuum

  • Having those difficult conversations using the restorative practice continue helps the kids own and take responsibility for their behavior.
  • When kids return to the circle after having issues, sometimes you need to have a re-entry circle.
  • Kids can:
  • Talk about how they feel.
  • Talk about the positives they see in the kid
  • The circles can cover general topics(feels, what they did over the weekend, what they are reading) or academic topics.
  • Smaller ones are for if kids feel like victims.

Book:

  • Better than Carrots and Sticks

  • Positivity Projects

Restorative Practices Continuum:

  • Informal restorative practices include affective statements, which communicate people’s feelings, as well as affective questions, which cause people to reflect on how their behavior has affected others.
  • Affective statement: “When you disrupt the class, I feel sad” or “disrespected” or “disappointed.”
  • Hearing this, the student learns how his or her behavior is affecting others.
  • Affective question: “Who do you think has been affected by what you just did?” and then follow-up with “How do you think they’ve been affected?”
  • In answering such questions, instead of simply being punished, the student has a chance to think about his or her behavior, make amends and change the behavior in the future
  • Why?
  • Informal restorative practices dramatically reduces the need for more time-consuming formal restorative practices. The end goal is to create a cumulative impact and creates what might be described as a restorative milieu—an environment that consistently fosters awareness, empathy and responsibility in a way that is likely to prove far more effective in achieving social discipline than our current reliance on punishment and sanctions

  • Restorative Questions:
  • When challenging behavior:
  • What happened?
    What were you thinking at the time?
  • What have you thought about since?
  • Who has been affected by what you have done? In what way?
  • What do you think you need to do to make this right?
  • When someone has been harmed:
  • What did you think when you realized what had happened?
  • What impact has this incident had on you and others?
  • Hat has been the hardest thing for you?
  • What do you think needs to happen to make things right?

More information about Restorative Practices:

http://schottfoundation.org/restorative-practices