Strategies

Capturing Kids Hearts

Four questions that can be used when dealing with misbehavior:

  1. What are you doing?
  2. What are you supposed to be doing?
  3. Are you doing it?
  4. What are you going to do about it?

Four questions that can be used when dealing with disrespect:

  1. How are you talking to me?
  2. How are you supposed to be talking to me?
  3. Were you doing it?
  4. So how are you going to talk to me?

Restorative Practices

Overview

Restorative Practices hold students accountable for their actions while giving them a high level of support to create a campus culture of learning and safety for all school community members.

Through restorative practices, members of the school community will:

1. Have an opportunity to be heard in a fair decision making process

2. Understand the greater impact of one's actions

3. Learn to take responsibility

4. Repair the harm one's actions may have caused

5. Recognize one's role in maintaining a safe school environment

6. Build upon and expand on personal relationships in the school community

7. Recognize one's role as a positive contributing member of the school community.


Affective Statements: Active and non-judgmental listening and expression of feelings and impact. Affective statements allow for students and staff to build strengthened relationships by genuinely presenting oneself as someone who cares and has feelings.

Restorative Discussion: A restorative approach to help those harmed by others actions, as well as

responding to challenging behavior consists in asking key questions:

Restorative Questions:

1. What happened, and what were you thinking at the time?

2. What have you thought about since?

3. Who has been affected by what you have done? In what way?

4. What about this has been hardest for you?

5. What do you think you need to do to make things as right as possible?

Proactive and Responsive Circles: Can be used for team building and problem solving. It enables

a group to get to know each other, builds inclusion, and allows for the development of mutual respect, trust,

sharing, and concern.

Restorative Meetings/Conferences: Those who have acknowledged causing harm meet with those they have harmed, seeking to repair the harm as much as possible.