Building and Sustaining Community and Restorative Justice

Independent PD’s: Building Community (Staff Engagement, Parents and Families, Students)(Helping Navigate Chaotic Re-entry to School):

In this workshop, participants will explore the building blocks of restorative practices and how to utilize them to sustain a positive school culture and climate. Participants will gain practical strategies and ideas that energize and re-energize your learning community (staff, students and families) and deepen your understanding of how to integrate restorative practices with similar initiatives (PBIS, SEL, MTSS). Workshop objectives include: 1) Assess the strengths and weaknesses of school culture 2) Identify how restorative practices and complementary initiatives work together to address your school needs, and 3) Create or restructure plans of action so that teachers and support staff are working with each other, students, and families instead of to or for them (social discipline window) throughout the year to sustain the goal of implementing a restorative school culture.