Staff Meeting:

Restorative Scenarios
December 4, 2019
 • Find your group.
• Read the quote on your table and
review other supporting material.
• Each person in the group should take
Connector about a minute to answer the connector
question on your sheet.
Question • Your group will have 5 minutes total.
 “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.
Restorative There’s a shift to: there was harm
Practices caused, or there’s disagreement or
Paradigm Shift dispute, there’s conflict, and how do we
repair the harm, address the conflict,
meet the needs, so that relationships 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 Paradigm Shift
Restorative Research
 • Find your group.
• Read the quote on your table and
review other supporting material.
• Each person in the group should take
about a minute to answer the connector
question on your sheet.
• Your group will have 5 minutes total.
Connector
Question
 Classroom Scenarios
• How have you handled the
classroom situation in the past?
• How might you approach the
situation using restorative practices
as an opportunity to build a
relationship with your student(s)
and community in your classroom?
• Go to your email for a link to help
you navigate through the activity.
 Referral Form
• Look over the current referral form
and indicate what we should:
KEEP on it, ADD to it, and TAKE off it.

• Please annotate right on the

document.
• Think about how it could be
formatted to reflect a restorative
approach.