Restorative Practices
- 6. "Suspensions and expulsions often aggravate the things the student is crying out for, and needing in their lives." Dorothy Vaandering
- 7. Code of Conduct Houston ISD School Board passed the resolution prohibiting suspension of Pre-K to 2nd grade students Achieve 180 Plan
- 8. Achieve 180 Superintendent’s Plan Social-Emotional Learning Pillar V: 1. Teaching the Whole Child 2. Global Graduate Profile 3. Feeder Pattern Connections 4. Wraparound Services
- 9. Administrative Training: July to September Three 2 hour trainings on: ● Introduction to Restorative Framework ● Affective Statements and Circles ● Restorative Dialogue/Repairing Harm Ongoing PLC Training materials will be provided to campuses and led by SEL staff when possible.
- 10. Focus on the identified Achieve 180 schools to target implementation supporting the Pillars
- 11. Restorative Circle A lynchpin of restorative discipline: TEA Sample Lesson Plan
- 12. Restorative Questions 1. What happened, and what were you thinking at the time of the incident? 2. What have you thought about since? 3. Who has been affected by what happened, and how? 4. What about this has been the hardest for you? 5. What do you think needs to be done to make things as right as possible?
- 14. Additional Resources: Suspensions Don’t Teach Circling Up for Classroom Community