Circles & Restorative Practices

On this page

  • How-to guides for classroom circles

  • Resources for restorative practices for students and staff

  • TED Talk on restorative practices

  • Trauma Informed strategies guidebook & staff self-care resources & circle activity

  • Shopping list for sensory tools to create calm down corners

  • Introduction to the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, "Removed" video series on the foster child experience

  • LACOE's Padlet with resources for supporting foster youth

Teaching Restorative Practices with Classroom Cirlces.pdf

Ready to go scripts & activities

By the Center for Restorative Practices, in collaboration with San Francisco USD

2020

Reconnecting & Rebuilding ToolKit: Kinder-1st grade

The Collaborative Classroom

Lessons on class meetings

2020

Reconnecting & Rebuilding ToolKit: 2nd - 6th grades

The Collaborative Classroom

from Collaborative Classroom

Restorative Justice Implementation Plan

Portland Public Schools

PPS RJ Implementation Plan.pdf

2021

5 Tools For Restorative Practices

Panorama Education

  1. Proactive Circles

  2. Respect Agreements

  3. Dialogue Circles

  4. Restorative Inquiry

  5. Re-entry Circles

Respect Agreements (1).pdf

Cooperative Activities for Student & Adult Circles

Restorative Communities Resource Guide

Restorative Communities-Resource-Guide-2016.pdf

Step In - Step Out Circle Question Bank

Step-in-step-out circle question bank.docx

Empathy: The Heart of Difficult Conversations | Michelle Stowe | TEDxTallaght

•Nov 14, 2017 (8:21 min)


Trauma Informed Strategies for Schools, including a chapter on Self Care

Restorative Circle Self Care
Baby Steps toward restorative justice article.docx
the heart of learning and teaching.pdf

Self-Care Tools for Staff Resilience

Menu of Sensory Tools

Calm Down Corner & Sensory Tools Ideas

Introduction to the impact of trauma on learning & quality of life

ACE Study: Adverse Childhood Events

Building Resilience with Trauma Informed Tier 2 Interventions REV FINAL

Shared folder with resources mentioned in the slideshow, above

16 min TED talk by Nadine Burke Harris,

California's first Surgeon General

Videos Illustrating the Impact of Trauma on Foster Children:

The "Removed" Series

Removed, Part 1 (14 mins)

Removed Part 2 (23 mins - with a positive ending!)

Part 3 (22 mins):

Little Kevi is torn from the only life he has ever known and struggles to make sense of how he fits between two worlds and two mothers.