Restorative Practices: Fostering Healthy Relationships & Promoting Positive Discipline in Schools

August 21, 2017 Western Justice Center

Read this guide to find out about different restorative practices in schools and things to think about when implementing in schools and communities.

Conscious Discipline Resources

August 22, 2016 Western Justice Center

This website has lots of free resources on the Conscious Discipline approach, which helps students self-regulate and educators teach these skills.

Ten Tips for Classroom Management

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This guide provides tips for positive classroom management and relationship building in classrooms and schools.

Supporting and Responding to Behavior

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This guide provides strategies for preventing and responding to challenging behaviors in the classroom.

How to Develop Positive Classroom Management

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This guide provides advice on things educators can do to build relationships in their classroom and develop positive classroom management skills.

Classroom Management: The Intervention Two-Step

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This article provides tips on how to immediately respond when a challenging classroom behavior issue arises,

Transforming School Culture with Restorative Practices

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This report talks about how restorative practices can benefit schools.

Restorative Practices in Schools: Research Reveals Power of Restorative Approach, Part I

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This article discusses benefits of restorative practices instead of traditional punitive discipline.

Findings from Schools Implementing Restorative Practices

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This report details the results and benefits of restorative practices in schools implementing programs.

The Society for Safe and Caring Schools and Communities

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

These lessons describe the use of circles in the classroom.

Safer Saner Schools

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This website provides information on how to implement restorative practices in schools based on the International Institute for Restorative Practices model.

Restorative Practices Training Manual

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This manual provides information regarding how to implement a restorative justice program.

Peacemaking Circles: A Process for Solving Problems and Building Community

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This guide provides information on how to hold community-building circle processes.

Implementing Restorative Justice

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This publication provides guidance for implementing restorative policies and practices in schools.

Restorative Welcome and Reentry Circle

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This video shows how circles can be used as a way to bring students back into the school community after they participated in a harmful event.

Colorado High School Replaces Punishment with "Talking Circles"

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This video shows how one high school is using restorative practices to change the culture on campus.

The Restorative Justice Resource Guide

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This guide provides a lot of information on restorative practices and the circle process.

Restorative Justice Practices and Principles in Schools

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This guide provides methods and examples of restorative justice practices used in schools, such as circles, conferencing and mediation.

Restorative Justice Programs

January 15, 2016 Western Justice Center

This website is created by the Oakland Unified School District and includes their personal strategic plan as well as additional resources.

Discipline That Restores

January 14, 2016 Western Justice Center

This website provides information for implementing a program based on the Discipline that Restores model.

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