1. Restorative Practices 101 NWESD 189 Social Emotional Learning Summit
Jeannette siemerS, M.Ed, NBCT
Licensed Facilitator/Trainer, IIRP
Assistant Principal, Monroe High School
Circle up: Name, where from and your role, familiarity on scale 1-10 of RP
Intro self
Frame of reference as to why this is important to me:
Own ACES
Mom-what I want for my own children in their education process. If I want it for my own children, why wouldn’t I provide for the children I work with every day?
Overarching theme of everyone has the right to be heard-share story of Keller and Lizzy

2. What are Restorative Practices?
Relationship ⚬ Community ⚬ Restoration
3-fold focused on community/relationship building, repairing harm and restoring relationships
Explicit framework of how best to work with people (any kind of people, ages 5-75 in all sorts of situations)
80% is proactive and 20% is reactive
Overall premise is to empower with an empathy mindset-love this quote from To Kill A Mockingbird.

3. Where do Restorative Practices come from?
Relationship ⚬ Community ⚬ Restoration
Ted and Susan Wachtel-CF Buxmont Academy working with ARY
This quote specifically talks about those in authority, but really works for any relationship-I use with my own children and their friends as well as high school students
So where is the research that supports these practices??? Next I’m going to cover a few of the key elements.

4. Social Discipline Window

5. The 9 Affects
Affects: nine, innate biological affects-studied babies and response to stimuli
Feelings: come a few seconds after
Emotions: scripted responses formed by our cultural and societal experiences and backgrounds
Six negative, two positive and a neutral that acts as a reset

6. Compass of Shame Four negative ways and one positive
Explore the four negative
Ideas for positive??? Talk about it, apologize, admit wrongdoings, make amends, express feelings
How do we do this?

7. Think of an experience in which you felt you were treated unfairly
Think of an experience in which you felt you were treated unfairly. What was one thing that was missing that would have made the experience feel more fair?

8. FAIR PROCESS Engagement Explanation Expectation Clarity
Engagement: getting to be part of the process in decisions that affect them, input and refute other’s ideas
Explanation: everyone understands the why decisions are made
Expectation Clarity: everyone understands the new boundaries and consequences of failure

9. “Individuals are most likely to trust and cooperate freely with systems – whether they themselves win or lose by those systems – when fair process is observed.”
Kim & Mauborgn, Harvard Business Review, Jan 2003

10. Restorative Practices Continuum
L to R: proactive to reactive, informal to formal, 1-2 individuals to multiple individuals
I feel…

11. AFFECTIVE STATEMENTS Set Boundaries-Provide feedback-Teach empathy
You played nicely today.
Be respectful
Get out of my room-you are nothing but a problem
Good job
Think before you speak
Thank you for listening
Don’t act so stupid all the time
Great job on your test
I’m going to call the cops
You’re a good reader
Behave or I’m going to call your parents
You did a nice job on your homework
Get your head off the table
Get your act together
Let’s practice. Partner up. Partner A will choose a sentence from slide and Partner B needs to restate as an affective statement. Then switch.

12. AFFECTIVE QUESTIONS Questions for the ”Offender”
Questions for the “Victim”
What happened?
What did you think when you realized what happened?
What were you thinking at the time?
What impact has this incident had on you and others
What have you thought about since?
What has been the hardest thing for you?
Who has been affected by what you have done? In what way?
What do you think needs to happen to make things right?
What do you need to do to make things right?
Let’s practice. Switch to a new partner. Partner A will think of a time when they were harmed by someone (please don’t use an example that will cause you to relive that trauma). Partner B will ask the questions. Then switch spots.

13. Restorative Practices Continuum
Bringing together a few people to talk about the incident, its impact and what to do next using the questions
Full day training to go over these three practices and the theory behind RP which is where we will go next

14. GROUPS/CIRCLES & FORMAL CONFERENCES
Proactive vs Reactive
Ensuring every voice is heard
Anyone use circles in their classroom?
Checking in, building connections, whole class problem-solving
Use circles mostly proactive and can use responsively
Conference-give example of Physics class boys

15. Questions? Circle Up: One thing you learned today that you can use right away?