Responsive Circle

Self-Awareness

Self-Management

Social Awareness

Relationship Skills

Responsible Decision Making

Classroom discussion: 0.56 A form of instruction in which students are invited to speak about the topic at hand. It involves much more than a teacher asking a class a question, then another, etc., but involves students discussing with each other, often prompted from an open and not closed set of questions.

Classroom Cohesion: 0.53  The sense that the teacher and the students are working together toward positive learning goals.

Social Skills Development: 0.40 Teaching each student to appropriately interact and communicate effectively with their peers and teachers and develops respect for self and respect for others.

Responsive circles respond to an incident, conflict, or problem.  

Engage students in collaborative problem solving.

A means for students to take responsibility for their actions, acknowledge how they may have impacted others (or have been impacted).

Used to create a plan to restore the relationship that was harmed.  

Should only be about 20% of the circles that students participate in.

Create routines & procedures to create safe learning environment

Develop structure for community repair including having difficult conversations

Check in with each student on well being throughout and after conflict

Develop students social-emotional skills

Develop interpersonal skills and intrapersonal skills

Establish predictable practices to increase student engagement

Communicate emotions, feelings, thoughts, and ideas 

Develop empathy

Develop skills to listen to multiple perspectives

Explicit practice on skills needed to engage socially & academically

Predictable and practiced structure to respond to harm helps students feel safe emotionally and physically.

Students know that harm will be addressed, not glossed over.

Students voices and experiences are uplifted, seen, and respected.