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What are restorative practices?
What are restorative practices?
“Restorative practices build community and promote healthy relationships among educators and students in order to teach the social-emotional and conflict-resolution skills necessary to reduce conflict. "
“Restorative practices build community and promote healthy relationships among educators and students in order to teach the social-emotional and conflict-resolution skills necessary to reduce conflict. "
Restorative Language
Restorative Language
Integrating restorative language into the school's culture, hallways, teacher's lounge, and discipline policies in an important way to reflect the inclusion of such practices in the discipline process.
Integrating restorative language into the school's culture, hallways, teacher's lounge, and discipline policies in an important way to reflect the inclusion of such practices in the discipline process.
Paradigm Shift:
Paradigm Shift:
The restorative approach is a set of guiding principles for the school community, which sees relationships as central to learning, growth and an inclusive, respectful school culture. It is a paradigm shift from traditional rule-based, punitive discipline systems. Restorative practices focuses on building, maintaining, and when necessary, repairing relationships among all members of a school community.
The restorative approach is a set of guiding principles for the school community, which sees relationships as central to learning, growth and an inclusive, respectful school culture. It is a paradigm shift from traditional rule-based, punitive discipline systems. Restorative practices focuses on building, maintaining, and when necessary, repairing relationships among all members of a school community.
Practices Include:
Practices Include:
Tier 1: Creating a Positive School Climate
Tier 1: Creating a Positive School Climate
Connection Circles: Staff member lead conversations to enhance relationships, rapport, and empathy.
Restorative Conversations: Individual students and a staff member have a short meeting and make a verbal agreement about how improve the relationship.
Tier 2: Restoring Harm
Tier 2: Restoring Harm
Problem Solving Circles: Staff member leads circle to address issues and harm and seek solutions using the restorative circle process.
Restorative Agreement Meeting: Conflicting parties make written agreements about how to improve their relationships and achieve desired outcomes.
Tier 3: Alternative Approaches
Tier 3: Alternative Approaches
Restorative Mediation: Conflicting parties meet with a trained facilitator to understand harms caused, determine actions, and make agreements to repair the harms.
Community Group Conferences: Participants (offenders and victims, support advocates, parents, other community members, and a trained facilitator) discuss the incident, harms caused, and solutions.
Core Values of Restorative Practices: The 5 Rs
Core Values of Restorative Practices: The 5 Rs
Core Values:
Core Values:
Respect
Respect
Relationships
Relationships
Responsibility
Responsibility
Repair
Repair
Reintegration
Reintegration
Respect:
Respect:
Respect is one of the key ingredients to this work. Without it, we might as well stop. This is not the respect of "if you give me respect - I'll give you respect." This is the respect that is assumed. You are valued, you are worthy and most importantly you are who you are.
Respect is one of the key ingredients to this work. Without it, we might as well stop. This is not the respect of "if you give me respect - I'll give you respect." This is the respect that is assumed. You are valued, you are worthy and most importantly you are who you are.
Relationships:
Relationships:
Relationships are the foundation of everything. We are in relationship with each other in our schools. Our students to one another, teachers and staff to students and their families. This extends even to the community that supports and interacts with your school. Relationships are the web that connects all of us, it is our strength that bonds us together.
Relationships are the foundation of everything. We are in relationship with each other in our schools. Our students to one another, teachers and staff to students and their families. This extends even to the community that supports and interacts with your school. Relationships are the web that connects all of us, it is our strength that bonds us together.
Responsibility:
Responsibility:
Responsibility requires a willingness for participants to take personal responsibility for any harm that was caused to another even if unintentionally.
Responsibility requires a willingness for participants to take personal responsibility for any harm that was caused to another even if unintentionally.
Repair:
Repair:
Repair is the work we do once we know the full story or at least more of the story. How have I affected you and how have you affected me. What can we do to "make things right" in this situation. Start with that question and I guarantee you'll have a better outcome.
Repair is the work we do once we know the full story or at least more of the story. How have I affected you and how have you affected me. What can we do to "make things right" in this situation. Start with that question and I guarantee you'll have a better outcome.
Reintegration:
Reintegration:
Reintegration is crucial to the healing process. How do we welcome back those that have left our community and returned, those that have caused harm and are coming back, and those that need to know they are part of us. In our schools we move to quickly and forget that welcoming someone back can have lasting positive effects.
Reintegration is crucial to the healing process. How do we welcome back those that have left our community and returned, those that have caused harm and are coming back, and those that need to know they are part of us. In our schools we move to quickly and forget that welcoming someone back can have lasting positive effects.
Resources:
Resources:
Restorative Practice Training Materials:
Restorative Practice Training Materials:
Research Brief on Resources for Restorative Practices in Schools
Guide for Implementing the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model
Restorative Practice Books:
Restorative Practice Books:
Boyes-Watson, C., & Pranis, K. (2015). Circle forward: Building a restorative school community. Living Justice Press.
Costello, B., Wachtel, J., & Wachtel, T. (2019). The restorative practices handbook: For teachers, disciplinarians and administrators. International Institute for Restorative Practices.
Gossen, D. C. (1992). Restitution: Restructuring school discipline. New View Publications.
Hopkins, B. (2003). Just schools: A whole school approach to restorative justice. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Jones, T. S., & Compton, R. (Eds.). (2002). Kids working it out: Stories and strategies for making peace in our schools. John Wiley & Sons.
Kohn, A. (2006). Beyond discipline: From compliance to community. ASCD.
Maynard, N. & Weinstein, B. ( 2019). Hacking school discipline: 9 ways to create a culture of empathy and responsibility using restorative justice. Times 10 Publications.
Meyer, L. H., & Evans, I. M. (2012). The school leader’s guide to restorative school discipline. Corwin Press.
Riestenberg, N. (2013). Circle in the square: Building community and repairing harm in school. Living Justice Press.
Smith, D., Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2015). Better than carrots or sticks: Restorative practices for positive classroom management. ASCD.
Stutzman Amstutz, L., & Mullet, J. H. (2005). The little book of restorative discipline for schools: Teaching responsibility; creating caring climates.
Thorsborne, M., & Blood, P. (2013). Implementing restorative practices in schools: A practical guide to transforming school communities. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Weaver, L., & Wilding, M. (2013). The 5 dimensions of engaged teaching: A practical guide for educators. Solution Tree Press.
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FILMS
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FILMS
A story of reconciliation, forgiveness and restorative justice in the wake of a murder.
The film follows participants in a pioneering program run by the state of Pennsylvania in which victims of the most violent crimes meet face-to-face with their perpetrators.
Follows five formerly incarcerated men who are attempting to rebuild their lives on the outside with little support from our criminal justice system.
After a group of boys burn a historic covered bridge, a circle held in a small Pennsylvania town helps both the young arsonists and their community come to terms with what happened.
A Native community in the Canadian Yukon uses their circle traditions to combat many of the social problems initially introduced by missionary and colonial settlers.
Circles of Change: A Quiet Revolution in Haiti
A 20-minute documentary about the grassroots movement that is transforming notions and practices in education and leadership in Haiti and beyond.
When men in a state prison join with victims of crime to create a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide.
The intimate story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes on a journey back into Cambodia's killing fields, only this time not as victims but as witnesses determined to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge.
Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies.
The injustice of solitary confinement and the transformative power of art are explored in the unlikely friendship between a New York artist and one of America’s most famous inmates as they collaborate on an art project.
Tells the story of the development of sentencing circles in a small community in Manitoba, Canada, by following the story of one family coming to terms with sexual abuse.
Ever After: Stories of Violence, Accountability, and Healing
Individuals share their personal stories of violence and its aftermath.
After decades behind bars, three men set out to prove success can lie on the other side of tragedy.
Family prepares to meet the man who murdered their daughter.
Dub Lawrence, the founder of Utah's first SWAT unit, investigates the death of his son-in-law and other shootings related to an increase in violent SWAT team raids.
A group of women rise up to bring peace to war-torn Liberia and help bring to power the country's first female head of state.
Follows the ups and downs of an experimental court, The Red Hook Community Justice Center, as defendants, staff and community members work together to prevent crime in their troubled Brooklyn neighborhood.
Restoring Hope: An Indigenous Response To Justice
This often confronting documentary observes a Māori restorative justice model through the eyes of straight-talking Mike Hinton, manager of Restorative Justice at Manukau Urban Māori Authority.
Sentencing Circles: Traditional Justice Reborn
As the Canadian justice system continues to fail Aboriginal people, sentencing circles are becoming the most realistic and effective means to establishing and maintaining justice in the first nations communities.
After being wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls during the Satanic Panic witch-hunt era of the '80s and '90s, four Latina lesbians fight against mythology, homophobia and prosecutorial fervor in their struggle for exoneration.
Explores the reasons behind these staggering numbers by intimately following a heroic Seattle police officer and the writing workshop she created with a group of inmates at a maximum security women's prison.
Tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.
A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
Two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities, and create a more positive future for their youth.
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