Join Restorative DC and other members of the DC school community for the June RJ Community of Practice meeting. We have designed these sessions to provide space for connection, grieving, celebration, and supporting each other. Come as you are to be in community with others from schools across DC. Throughout SY20-21, Restorative DC will sponsor…
As we rebuild our school networks, restorative community-building circles provide an opportunity and space to reflect, grieve, celebrate, and plan for the future in the new “normal.” This workshop is targeted to school staff with some experience conducting community-building circles and will provide the tools and techniques necessary for transitioning to virtual circle-keeping. Participants will…
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: This workshop will introduce teachers, administrators, school staff, students, and all those who support them to restorative concepts and practices. Participants will explore the continuum of restorative practices, including pro-active circles for strengthening relationships and social-emotional skills, and restorative circles as a means of shifting school culture…
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: How can we make restorative justice accessible to everyone? How do we engage in restorative practices beyond circles and responding to conflict? When students have the freedom and opportunity to co-create their learning experiences, they are more likely to remain engaged, participate in learning and develop healthy…
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: For restorative practices to be useful for young learners, restorative practitioners must consider the developmental range of children in grades K-8 and accommodate a young learner's attention span, energy level, learning style, and expressive and receptive language capacity. This experiential workshop for teachers, administrators, school staff, and…
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: Data are necessary to help measure the effectiveness of your school’s restorative justice implementation, explore needs, and improve the conditions of learning. Administrators, school staff, and teachers will learn and explore new strategies to mobilize data evaluation in real time in order to make appropriate revisions to…
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: In this highly interactive and developmentally appropriate session, teachers, school staff and early education workers will strengthen their capacity to help young children build and strengthen relationships. Participants will learn strategies for helping young children solve, self-advocate and access content for learning through a restorative lens.
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: This workshop will give school staff strategies for incorporating humor, fun, connection, and energy into on-line sessions with students. Participants will be exposed to a range of activities that have been adapted for use in various online platforms. The session includes an exploration of the role of…
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: According to the US Department of Education, a positive school culture fosters safety, promotes a positive academic, disciplinary and physical environment, and encourages trusting and caring relationships between adults and students. As different initiatives work toward a common vision of improving school climate, how can schools organize…
Independent PD: Early Learning and RJ, Leadership, Assessment: Restorative practices are dialogue-based processes that center a community around equitable and inclusive relationships of trust, understanding, and collaboration. These practices, including community building circles, are trauma-informed and provide ample opportunities for social-emotional learning for students, school staff, and families. During this workshop participants will explore how…
Whole School and Targeted TA Institute: Virtual-only instruction has taken a great deal out of us - parents, students, educators, administrators and school staff alike. How might we integrate a restorative approach to school re-entry that seeks to meet the social-emotional, academic and creative needs of the school community? This session will offer strategies to…
Whole School and Targeted TA Institute: Restorative Justice is more than a process to repair relationships between people after a harm. It is a way of living and relating that focuses on "how we care about each other." It is a healing-centered approach drawn from ancient indigenous cultures that supports widening tolerance and welcoming what…