Wrap Circles

Using wrap circles...

- Promotes community
- Initiates student ownership
- Provides forum for students to resolve conflict

Implementation

Overview

Wrap circles are responsive circles used to resolve conflict or communicate concerns.
Students have the ability to "call" a cirlce at agreed upon times to discuss a concern or conflict
All students have an opportunity to hear and voice their feelings.
Students determine a plan on how to repair harm and proceed with limited adult facilitation

Core Components

- Guidelines are taught on circle norms and agreements
- Teacher facilitated to start with gradual release to student initiated introduced over time
- Asset based conversations not targeting particular students
- Time for all parties to express their views
- Plan for how to move forward established before circle breaks

Proactive Implementation

- Proactively implementing Wrap Circles may look like establishing a classroom environment that utilizes class values, expectations, and circles. Normalizing circles and practicing the structure are vital.

Responsive Implementation

- Responsively implementing Wrap Circles may stem from a need to increase student agency and voice within the classroom. The purpose must be discussed with the class as well as practiced.

Connection

If the need is connection then students should be empowered to call their own wrap circles.

Skills Training

If the need is skill building then initiating the wrap circle should be practiced.

Awareness

If the need is awareness then students should discuss how actions have impacted others and the room during the circle.

Emotional Regulation

If the need is regulation then the students may use the wrap circle as a way for everyone to take a break and address dysregulation.

Consider Factors Prior to Start

Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships

Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology

Intensifying or Fading During

REMINDER

- Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
- After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.

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