Micro-Aggressions
What is the term for: Small comments or actions—intentional or not—that send a negative or disrespectful message to someone based on who they are.
Micro-Aggression
This is the most common RJ practice, where participants sit in a specific geometric shape to ensure equality. What shape is it?
Circle
What is the term for: Saying or doing something deliberately (or repeatedly) to provoke anger, embarrassment, or emotional reactions from others.
Rage-baiting
This term is often intentional rather than unconscious.
Rage-baiting
What is the term for: What someone meant versus how it actually affected someone.
Intent vs. Impact
In an RJ session, this object is often passed around to ensure only one person speaks at a time.
Talking Piece/Fidget
True or false: rage baiting is designed to escalate others.
TRUE
This term is often unconscious rather than intentional.
Micro-aggression
What is the term for: Someone who witnesses harm and has choices about how to respond.
Bystander
The three "R's" of restorative justice are Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and this.
Relationships
True or false: "I knew it would bother them, so I did it" is talking about rage baiting
TRUE. If you are rage baiting, you had intention to bother someone/seek an emotional reaction from them.
True or false: Micro aggressions intend to seek emotional reactions.
FALSE. Micro aggressions typically are not intentional and can cause emotional fatigue.
What is the term for: Actions taken to acknowledge harm and rebuild trust.
Repair
This is an important part of RJ where you can maintain autonomy and confidentiality (you have this choice each round of the circle)
Choosing to answer or pass
True or False: Rage-baiting has to do with feeling powerless.
TRUE. Rage-baiting can have to do with feeling powerless.
True or False: Rage baiting and Micro-Aggressions can cause harm to relationships and classroom communities.
TRUE. Regardless of intention, both of these can have an impact on relationships and the community as a whole.
Micro-Aggressions are typically these 3 things:
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1. Repetitive
2. Subtle
3. Dismissed when challenged
RJ focuses on building these "social-emotional" skills so students can resolve conflicts themselves.
Empathy & Communication
Claiming someone is "too sensitive" is often a way to avoid taking this for one's own words.
Responsibility/Accountability
Thinking micro-aggressions are "small" ignores that they often predict this "M-word" (larger acts of harm).