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Restorative Practices in Schools: K-12

More and more schools across the country are finding that their traditional discipline system isn’t effective enough in dealing with minor and serious wrongdoings and that the principles and practices of a restorative justice school program have much to offer in creating a safe place for learning and growing. We offer trainings for students and staff of both K-12 and Higher Education.

Restorative Justice is a way of responding to conflict, misbehavior, and wrongdoing that makes things as right as possible for all who were impacted. Restorative Justice recognizes the conflict or harm, repairs the damage (physical and relational) as much as possible, and creates future accountability plans and/or agreements that will prevent the same thing from happening again.
These principles guide our actions in response to wrongdoing, misbehavior, and conflict and our response to them.

Restorative Practices Training Modules We Offer to Schools are:

  • 1-3 Years of Training & Support in Restorative Practices (Starting with Core Team Training)
  • Restorative Practices in Schools
  • Problem Solving & Harm Repair Circles in the Classroom
  • Restorative Practices in Schools Problem Solving & Harm Repair Circles in the Classroom
  • Active Implementation & Evaluation
  • Engaging Students & Families
  • Training Students to be Restorative Circle Facilitators
  • Advanced Trainings
  • Training of Trainers
Restorative Justice is a way of responding to conflict, misbehavior, and wrongdoing that makes things as right as possible for all who were impacted. Restorative Justice recognizes the conflict or harm, repairs the damage (physical and relational) as much as possible, and creates future accountability plans and/or agreements that will prevent the same thing from happening again. These principles guide our actions in response to wrongdoing, misbehavior, and conflict and our response to them.

Restorative Justice in Schools: K-12

Restorative Justice in Schools = Restorative Discipline and Restorative Practices
How does your school deal with minor and serious wrongdoings? Are there more effective ways to deal with these incidents rather than simply isolating and punishing students through office referrals, suspensions, and expulsions?

More and more schools across the country are finding that their traditional discipline system isn’t effective enough in dealing with minor and serious wrongdoings and that the principles and practices of restorative justice have much to offer in creating a safe place for learning and growing.

Building Community

Numerous research reports tell us that belonging is perhaps the single most important factor in preventing violence in schools. How schools create a sense of belonging, a sense of community, is key to developing an effective violence prevention strategy, and restorative practices are specifically designed to help students stay connected to school and their peers even when they have made a mistake or when they have been a victim of wrongdoing.

Making Things Right

Restorative justice is a systemic response to wrongdoing that emphasizes healing the wounds of affected parties, responsible parties, and communities. Restorative principles and practices help:

The Training Modules and
Support We Offer to Schools are:

Numerous research reports tell us that belonging is perhaps the single most important factor in preventing violence in schools. How schools create a sense of belonging, a sense of community, is key to developing an effective violence prevention strategy, and restorative practices are specifically designed to help students stay connected to school and their peers even when they have made a mistake or when they have been a victim of wrongdoing.

Building Community

Numerous research reports tell us that belonging is perhaps the single most important factor in preventing violence in schools. How schools create a sense of belonging, a sense of community, is key to developing an effective violence prevention strategy, and restorative practices are specifically designed to help students stay connected to school and their peers even when they have made a mistake or when they have been a victim of wrongdoing.

Making Things Right

Restorative justice is a systemic response to wrongdoing that emphasizes healing the wounds of affected parties, responsible parties, and communities. Restorative principles and practices help:
hold the responsible student(s) accountable for his or her actions
provide those who were harmed with a safe place to share how the incident impacted them
include members of the community in developing a moral stance and helping the offending student in making things right
develop an effective alternative to the traditional system of school discipline
Restorative justice is a systemic response to wrongdoing that emphasizes healing the wounds of affected parties, responsible parties, and communities. Restorative principles and practices help:

The Training Modules and Support We Offer to Schools are:

Restorative Practices in Schools
Problem Solving & Harm Repair Circles in the Classroom
Restorative Mediation & Conferencing
Active Implementation & Evaluation
Engaging Students & Families
Advanced Trainings
Training of Trainers
Facilitating Staff Healing Circles for School Issues
Developing an Assessment Plan
Our trainings integrate best practices of conflict resolution education and social-emotional learning in an effort to develop a comprehensive approach to restorative school discipline. We can also help schools infuse these concepts and skills into the academic curriculum.
See Training Module Descriptions
To schedule a training, contact Randy Compton at 303-859-4419.

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