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New webinar! Introduction to School-Based Restorative Practices 🗓️ Tuesday, May 28 ⏰ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm ET Restorative practices in schools focus on building and maintaining positive relationships, addressing conflicts, and repairing harm. It involves proactive approaches like circles and community-building activities, as well as reactive processes like restorative conferences to resolve conflicts and restore relationships. By prioritizing empathy, accountability, and communication, restorative practices foster a supportive and inclusive school culture, reducing disciplinary issues and promoting social-emotional development among students. This presentation will provide an introduction to and review of restorative practices and will address readiness for implementation at the school level. Register now ➡️ https://buff.ly/3vSiBak

💙⚖️TEAM regulation ⚖️🧠 Team work makes the dream work, right?! 🙌 If we want to truly SUPPORT behaviour, parents and educators… we have to work as a team! Through the TBBS approach and within the TBB portal, we are all about supporting Coregulation. It is the first step in all escalation and deescalation of behaviour - yep, it goes both ways my friends! How we respond makes a huge difference… I know I’ve said this before but I will say it until I’m 💙 TEAM is one of our support frameworks to empower you in regulating those little nervous systems around you - by regulating your own first! Whether you are teaching in a classroom, running a children’s club, or at home with your own kiddos - this framework works! It adjusts our adult mindset, readies our responses and reconnects us. ⛔️IMPORTANT⛔️ This is not for dangerous behaviour - we have our NOW framework for that! Please seek support if you are struggling with dangerous behaviour. You can get in touch with us directly, a colleague, friend or external professional. We are all in this together! Parents and educators, if you want more support for your team… come and join The Behaviour Bank 🥳. We have got you covered! Here you have access to a wide range of experts that can support you and your children. Each bank vault contains a range of: Practical strategies and tools Pedagogical frameworks Downloadable resources Short courses Live webinars Bitesize clips And with soooo much support available, and new content dropping down every 3 months, we are with every step of the behaviour journey! Join today for only £12.75 a month! 💙⚖️🧠 School and nursery licences are available from £1700 for 6 months - providing on going CPD for all staff AND support for every family! It is all about 360 support. https://lnkd.in/etbK8NYf #behaviour #behavior #behavioursupport #behaviourchange #behaviourmanagement #behaviourstrategies #emotions #emotionalintelligence #emotionalhealth #emotionalwellbeing #emotionalregulation #emotionalsupport #coregulation #parenting #teaching #collaboration #teamwork #parentingtips #teachersfollowteachers

As part of our series on #creativelearning and looking at our current #education system, we talked to AoP Chair @johnclark to get the benefit of his insight and extensive 50 year experience operating in the #socialcare and #socialjustice systems. It's right riveting 5 minute read! https://lnkd.in/eqvFr987

🌍 Restorative Practices (RP) are gaining significant traction as a transformative framework in many international schools. However, there are some major misconceptions regarding its implementation. 🕊️ Restorative justice isn't a new concept; it has been around as long as humanity itself. It's the natural way we organize our communities, focusing on healing and collaboration rather than punishment. 🧠 Adopting RP is more about unlearning punitive practices than learning new ones. It involves a mindset shift towards empathy and community-driven resolutions. 👥 Most behaviors should be addressed within a small community of affected individuals. In wider communities, this could include neighbors, shopkeepers, postal workers, and more. Within schools, it should involve the affected students, their peers, and relevant teachers. 🔧 Solutions to issues should be crafted and implemented by this small, directly impacted community. This means Heads, Principals, and other administrators should take a step back and allow the process to unfold naturally. 🌟 Remember the 5 Fs: Foul up, Fess up, Face up, Fix up, Follow up. ❤️ Peace and love to all as we embrace restorative practices and build stronger, more compassionate communities.

Restorative practices are not the same thing as restorative justice. It’s true, restorative practices can benefit us when we are in disciplinary circumstances, but it is important to note that they can only be of benefit if first and foremost we PROACTIVELY employ them and utilize them to establish a sense of trust and community amongst our learners. What are Restorative Practices? https://bit.ly/4ahVd4D

Improving Your School's Response to Chronic Absenteeism The goal is to help students feel like they belong, are safe, and have a real chance to catch up and be successful in school. Remember, many students - even skilled students - have real, residual, pandemic-induced academic, social skill, and executive function gaps needing remediation, (as well as socio-economic challenges needing mitigation), *without shame*. *Engage with a group. Consider inviting content teachers, ELL teacher, special education teacher and paraprofessional, front office support staff, nurse, dean, admin, counselor, social worker, students, family members, community partners. *Spend time. Plan for approximately 1-2 hours. *Be curious. Set aside the things you think you know, the arguments in which you feel entrenched, the assumptions you may hold and set a stage of discovery. Engage by asking questions, an openness to dive deeper, humility to be wrong, or at least incomplete, a commitment to a judgment free zone, and a mindset for growth. *Create a plan. Use these guiding questions to identify needs and next steps. *Take action. Implement your plan, monitor the results, and [be willing and able to] adapt as needed. Here is one of many resource toolkits: https://lnkd.in/gaWcPBSs

📖 Restorative Solution’s are about inclusion, transforming relationships and radical ways of impacting upon conflict and rule breaking behaviour. Preface by Sir Charles Pollard (ex Chief Superintendent, Thames Valley Police) Bad behaviour in our schools – often leading to school exclusions, speeding the pupils involved to the social scrapheap – has become a blight on our education system. Solutions are hard to come by. Most come in the form of yet more punitive discipline, which merely heightens the problem. What is needed in schools is fresh thinking, new approaches that work – and Restorative Practices are precisely that. Restorative Practices break the cycle by tackling the root causes of misbehaviour, rather than just massaging the symptoms. Many badly behaved pupils, faced directly and personally with the harm they have done to others, not only see the error of their ways but are often even transformed into positive role models. #InclusiveSolutions #InclusiveEducation #InclusionInSchools #Books #Reading #ManagingDifficultBehaviour #ManagingDifficultBehaviourTraining #ManagingDifficultBehaviourCourse #RestorativeSolutions #RestorativeJusticeInSchools #RestorativeJusticeForSchools #RestorativeJusticeTraining #RestorativeJusticeTrainingForSchools

ADMINISTRATORS’ SERIES - Session 10 (Virtual) Developing Strong Relationships with Families DATE: Monday, March 25, 2024 | TIME: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Use the link below to register https://lnkd.in/dsHK3whu Description From enrollment to graduation, communication between the school and families is one of the main factors in student and school success. This workshop will explore the benefits of a robust family and school partnership where all stakeholders collaborate to achieve the best outcomes for students and their families. We will also discuss and provide examples of structures that ensure two-way communication between families and schools. By having strong communication structures and protocols, the school will obtain detailed information and better serve the students and their families. Families also benefit since the parents obtain the necessary information to support the school and their children. By the end of the session, participants will be able to build trust with families, starting with the initial meeting and using the Parents Bill of Rights to reflect on school practices and to develop, implement, monitor, and adjust protocols and structures for continued communication with the families. Audience: Administrators, support personnel, Coordinators, ENL Coordinators, CBO staff, Aspiring Administrators Participants will receive CTLE credit for participation in the session.

Empower your educators with a key strategy for enhancing student engagement. Are you ready to take a stand against the systemic racism? 🎥View our essential teaching tip, perfect for sharing with your teachers. Discover insights in our 'Inclusivity' Checklist. Get your complimentary download now. 🔗https://bit.ly/42q2UD8

📖 Restorative Solution’s are about inclusion, transforming relationships and radical ways of impacting upon conflict and rule breaking behaviour. Preface by Sir Charles Pollard (ex Chief Superintendent, Thames Valley Police) Bad behaviour in our schools – often leading to school exclusions, speeding the pupils involved to the social scrapheap – has become a blight on our education system. Solutions are hard to come by. Most come in the form of yet more punitive discipline, which merely heightens the problem. What is needed in schools is fresh thinking, new approaches that work – and Restorative Practices are precisely that. Restorative Practices break the cycle by tackling the root causes of misbehaviour, rather than just massaging the symptoms. Many badly behaved pupils, faced directly and personally with the harm they have done to others, not only see the error of their ways but are often even transformed into positive role models. #InclusiveSolutions #InclusiveEducation #InclusionInSchools #Books #Reading #ManagingDifficultBehaviour #ManagingDifficultBehaviourTraining #ManagingDifficultBehaviourCourse #RestorativeSolutions #RestorativeJusticeInSchools #RestorativeJusticeForSchools #RestorativeJusticeTraining #RestorativeJusticeTrainingForSchools