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…
Whole School and Targeted TA Institute: 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…
Whole School and Targeted TA Institute: Step up your practice with one-on-one or group sessions with your school staff that are provided as a follow-up to professional development workshops to deepen understanding of content, strengthen skills and overcome implementation challenges. This Institute is available to staff members with Whole and Targeted TA schools only.
Whole School and Targeted TA Institute: 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 restorative practices…
Step up your practice with one-on-one or group sessions with your school staff that are provided as a follow-up to professional development workshops to deepen understanding of content, strengthen skills and overcome implementation challenges.
Whole School and Targeted TA Institute: As staff return to school communities, they will be asked to manage complex schedules including on-line and in-person instruction, facilitate the increased needs of students and families, and maintain shifting resources while balancing their own households, health needs, and possible grief due to the loss of loved ones. This…