What is it?
An approach that focuses more on communication than punishment.
What is restorative practice?
A group activity where students sit together and talk through feelings or concerns.
What are class circles?
A space where everyone involved in a situation gets the chance to speak.
What are circle discussions?
Two serious school consequences that happen less often with this approach.
What are suspensions and expulsions?
A sentence frame students use to express feelings, like “I feel… when…”
What are I-statements?
The deeper cause of a problem that this approach tries to understand.
What is the root of an issue?
A private conversation between a teacher and a student to check in or solve a problem.
What are one-on-one check-ins?
A guided conversation between someone who was harmed and someone responsible.
What is mediation?
These improve when teachers and students communicate more openly.
What are student-teacher relationships?
Short meetings teachers have with students before or after school to check in.
What are one-on-one meetings?
Two important skills students build through restorative practices.
What are communication and community skills?
The kind of questions teachers ask to help students reflect on their actions.
What are guiding (or leading) questions?
Plans students come up with to fix a situation after harm is done.
What are agreements?
Important life skills students build, like empathy and communication.
What are social-emotional skills?
Structured conversations used to help students work through conflict.
What are conferences?
These are rebuilt when students work through conflict together.
What are relationships?
The type of language that focuses on reflection instead of punishment.
What is reflection-based language?
Statements people use to clearly share how they feel.
What are affective statements?
What teachers need in order to use restorative practices effectively.
What are training and consistency?
Something teachers help students set instead of giving immediate punishment.
What are goals?
Instead of discipline, this is what restorative practices focus on.
What are meaningful conversations?
A question a teacher might ask instead of giving a punishment.
What is “How can you make this right?”
The main goal after a conflict happens in restorative practices.
What is repairing harm and rebuilding relationships?
A challenge that can come up when classrooms are large and support is limited.
What is lack of support?
Activities that give students a chance to reflect and express themselves.
What are restorative activities?