Restorative Practices
This includes ANYTHING that is done to build relationships with students, repair harm, or engage.
Restorative Practices are a CONTINUUM of interventions based on our students' Social & Emotional needs and learning. There are many practices, activities, curriculum, and instructional strategies that fall within this continuum.
Restorative Practices are a CONTINUUM of interventions based on our students' Social & Emotional needs and learning. There are many practices, activities, curriculum, and instructional strategies that fall within this continuum.
For example, using a community building circle in your classroom falls on the proactive, or preventative part of the continuum. A restorative circle, a circle that takes place after harm takes place when someone is upset, is on the reactive or responsive part of the continuum.
For example, using a community building circle in your classroom falls on the proactive, or preventative part of the continuum. A restorative circle, a circle that takes place after harm takes place when someone is upset, is on the reactive or responsive part of the continuum.
The continuum above outlines the layers and components of Restorative Practices. Anytime you reference ANYTHING you do with a student regarding ANYTHING on this continuum, YOU are being a restorative practitioner.
The continuum above outlines the layers and components of Restorative Practices. Anytime you reference ANYTHING you do with a student regarding ANYTHING on this continuum, YOU are being a restorative practitioner.
Daily Restorative Work
Daily Restorative Work
There are practices that you can integrate, or already are integrating, on a daily basis that are restorative. Some of them are conversational and social, others are structural. This section of the website is to introduce a couple things for you to try in your life at school as soon as TOMORROW.
There are practices that you can integrate, or already are integrating, on a daily basis that are restorative. Some of them are conversational and social, others are structural. This section of the website is to introduce a couple things for you to try in your life at school as soon as TOMORROW.
A way to include restorative practices on a daily basis is to include Affective Statements and Questions; these are frameworks for daily conversation with other human beings, a great entry point for all of us! See below...
A way to include restorative practices on a daily basis is to include Affective Statements and Questions; these are frameworks for daily conversation with other human beings, a great entry point for all of us! See below...
Understanding the Basics - from the Institute for Restorative Practices
Understanding the Basics - from the Institute for Restorative Practices
What are the nuts and bolts of Restorative Practices?
Why do we need it? How can you use it?
Using Affective Statements and Questions
Using Affective Statements and Questions
This is a way of phrasing questions and statements to convey your thinking and feeling in a non-threatening way. These are on the continuum above.