SchoolTalk's RestorativeDC Training & Professional Development Calendar

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…

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…

Whole School and Targeted TA Institute:  Celebrations can be used to honor individuals, groups, or an entire school and are a way of building connections among the different stakeholders within the school community. Recognizing accomplishments and expressing gratitude promotes resilience and well-being. This workshop will explore strategies and various on-line tools that can be used…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: This workshop will provide educators, administrators and school staff a fundamental understanding of restorative practices that will assist with the re-entry and recovery processes. We will demonstrate how Restorative Practices can address school and classroom changes and expectations, student and staff concerns, and rebuild the school community with examples of…

RJ in the Classroom 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 can…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: This workshop is for teachers, youth workers, and other professionals who wish to build community and facilitate circles at their school, organization, or agency. Participants will learn the underlying assumptions, primary features, and fundamental processes of community building circles through direct experience and reflection. Participants will have the opportunity to…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: Do you want the capacity to respond in the moment of conflict and create connection with people when situations feel like they are escalating quickly without resolution? We invite teachers, administrators and school staff to join us for an interactive session where you will have the opportunity to self-reflect when…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: Restorative practices can be extremely useful for helping schools support students with disabilities during this time of uncertainty and disruption of the normal school environment. Participants will explore the current needs of students with disabilities and their families; and identify how restorative practices can be utilized for establishing connections, problem-solving,…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: This PD will examine the impact of racism, inequity, and exclusion on the learning environment and developing safe spaces to have courageous conversations using the RJ circle process. These circles combine ancient practices and modern procedures to focus on essential relationships and listening. Connecting in a circle allows for communicating,…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: Social and emotional development through drama and games provide a living laboratory for your restorative circles that enables participants to practice engaging in creative ways to build community, approach problems, express feelings, and clarify values. It mirrors relevant social and personal issues that young people face daily and explores various…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: 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 early education workers…

RJ in the Classroom Institute: The way we speak and the words we use have tremendous power to inspire or discourage. The language of virtues empowers us to act on the best within us. It is the main ingredient for creating a culture of character. Workshop participants will learn how to use language to build…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: This workshop is designed to allow educators, administrators and school staff to reimagine school discipline through a multi-tiered approach. Participants will begin to explore discipline practices that are designed to support educators in the classroom, examine conditions of learning, and explore needs and harms as a part of promoting prosocial…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: This workshop is designed to build the capacity of school leaders, teachers, and support staff to practice a restorative response to behaviors in school. Through the restorative lens, participants will explore various techniques and strategies to effectively communicate with students when they disrupt community norms or expectations. Participants will gain…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: Our capacity to regulate our behaviors, deal with conflicts, and be ready to learn depends on whether our nervous systems are functioning in survival or safe mode. The capacity to regulate (calm) our nervous system is greatly impacted by the layers of trauma that mark us and how we are…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: This practice-based workshop is for school staff who aim to incorporate responsive peacemaking circles into their classrooms and community. The training will focus on responsive circles and the structured intervention for severe and complex incidents of harm. Participants will utilize mock disciplinary scenarios to practice a responsive circle, conduct preparatory…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: Support circles are a structured process for engaging students who are struggling, have complex needs, or are returning to the school community after a long absence. Support circles bring together the student, family members, relevant school staff, social service providers, and others to provide a web of support for the…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: Do you often experience that restorative responses to a conflict take much preparation or time? Micro Circles, a restorative process to a conflict between two or three people, allow for a rapid response to take place in the moment without a great deal of preparation. Participants will be introduced to…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: As we look back over the last year of virtual learning, we recognize the most marginalized students are part of the special education community. In this workshop, educators, administrators and school staff will explore strategies that create an inclusive environment in which students receive services and support through Fair Process…

RJ and Student Behavior Institute: 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 high-quality systems and…