Community Building Circles
The goal of this is to strengthen relationships with the people around you and to reduce conflicts.
What is the goal of community-building circles/COPs?
This is a person who helps students who talk through their conflicts.
What is a peer mediator?
This describes the guides/facilitator role, as opposed to authority. This can be considered as shifting the role of teachers from disciplinarians to facilitators.
What is a child-centered approach?
Challenges that may arise when facilitating circles.
Participation, resistance, time constraints, and etc.
This is the first step in resolving a conflict.
What is identifying a problem?
Encouraging youth to take leadership in their own learning and behavior.
What is youth voice or agency?
These are ways community-building circles support Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).
What is supporting and practicing skills including empathy, communication, and self-awareness, and etc?
This is a technique asking students to reflect on how their choices impacted others and what they can do to repair harm/restore relationships.
Changing discipline policies in schools by focusing on repairing harm rather than issuing consequences.
What is a restorative practice?