Restorative Approach

Creating and Maintaining Thriving School Communities

What Are Restorative Approaches?

A Restorative Approach is a mindset and philosophy toward school climate and relationship building. Important components are:

• Proactively and intentionally developing relationships and building community.

• Restoring, repairing, or healing the school community when harm has occurred

The focus is on education, learning from mistakes, identifying and working on the root of the behavior, making deep-level change, repairing relationships, and restoring students and staff to the environment.

The Key Values of Restorative Approaches include:

• Nurturing healthy relationships built on trust

• Fostering mutual respect between individuals

• Feeling a sense of responsibility for your community

• Repairing harm and transforming conflict

• Reintegrating back to your community if harm has been caused