Restorative Practices August 22, 2019

Silently read through the principles

What stood out most about the principles

(thoughts/feelings/personal experiences?)
Restorative
Principles In what ways are the principles already being
applied in the school setting?

Imagine a school setting where all of these

principles are being applied consistently. What
would that look like, feel like, sound like?
 “What’s fundamental about restorative justice
(practices) is a shift away from thinking about
laws being broken, who broke the law, and how
we punish the people who broke the laws.
There’s a shift to: there was harm caused, or
Restorative there’s a disagreement or dispute, there’s
Practices conflict, and how do we repair the harm, address
the conflict, meet the needs, so that relationships
Paradigm Shift and community can be repaired and restored. It’s
a different orientation. It is a shift.”

Cheryl Graves – Community Justice for Youth

Institute
Restorative
Practice
Quadrants
 What happened?

What were you thinking about at the

time?
Restorative
Practices What have you thought about since?
Questions
Who has been affected by what you have
done? In what way?

What do you think needs to be done to

make things right?
 Please respond to the following question
on the provided postcard.

Restorative
What is one thing you can
Practices commit to doing (or continue
Commitment to do) to incorporate
restorative practices into your
practice?