Response

A fully implementing discipline response system is documented with consistent understanding by staff of majors and minors, monitored for fidelity, and used to promote student self-regulation and repair skills while also maintaining relationships. Data is used to inform school culture.

"What are restorative practices?"

Restorative Practices are a set of skills for building community and for responding to challenging behaviors in schools. Restorative practices reduces suspensions, improves school climate, strengthens relationships, and improves equity and inclusion.

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetimeChildhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Response

"What are restorative practices?"

What teachers need to know about Restorative Justice

A list of ways to positively respond to student misbehaviors

Kansas MTSS and Alignment Resources for Systemic Processes

Ditch the Clip Chart video