RP, SEL and PBIS

Some thoughts about the alphabet

Some resources from

Down Under

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Nancy Riestenberg

School Climate Specialist

Minnesota Department

of Education

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• Practices that sustain “safe and just

school communities, grounded in the

premise that human beings are

relational and thrive in contexts of

social engagement over control.”

Morrison, 2011,

Pranis, 2007

Restorative Practices are Relational

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Restorative School

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Building Community Repairing Harm

Restorative dialogue between several students

Conference/circle with a small group

of students

Community conference /circle with students, parents and teachers

Affective Statements

Community building circles

From Thorsborne & Vinegrad, also, Costello, Wachtel & Wachtel

Classroom circle with a whole class

Restorative Mindset

Collegial Relationships

MODEL

TEACH

RE-

ENFORCE

Affective Statements

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Empathy

Circles

• To build community

• To discuss

• To repair harm

• To teach

• To problem solve

Restorative Measures

Person(s) harmed

Person(s)

who did harm

Community

conflict/problem/harm done : •talk it through

•identify solutions

•restore order

Re-build Relationships

Repair Relationships

Reaffirm Relationships

Relational practices, circle to build community and to teach, school and classroom policies, Social Emotional Learning curricula, positive behavior expectations, etc.

Restorative dialogues, peer mediation, problem solving circles

Circles to repair harm, Restorative conferencing

Whole School Approach

Restoring Safe School Communities, Morrison, 2007

• Based in clear rules that are taught

• Rewards over punishment for behavior

compliance

• Fair and just external sanctioning system

• Social control and order

» Morrison and Vaandering

PBIS and Behavior

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• Promotes self–management and self-

awareness

• Teaches social skills:

– Social awareness, relationship skills

responsible decision-making

• Expects self-discipline, outside of the social

context » Morrison and Vaandering

Social Emotional Learning

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• Promotes social harmony and engagement

• Shifts from “managing behavior to honoring

dignity and humanity through relational

practices that focus on the individual and

community well-being”

• Community responsiveness to individual

behavior

• Development of internal sanctioning systems » Morrison and Vaandering

Restorative Approaches

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• Whole school approach works best for anything

• PBIS framework has shelves for all approaches

• Integration:

– Circle to re-enforce relationship while teaching

– Restorative intervention provides the leverage of

relationship to support behavior change

Integration

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• Circle process provides a way of teaching social

skills and the behaviors we want to see, while

under-scoring relationship and community

• Restorative interventions provide processes that

use the skills we teach

• Can respond to just the individual, but RM’s

strength is in that it provides a community

response

• Involves with respect family, youth, staff

• Offers opportunity to be culturally competent » Riestenberg

Integration of Restorative Practices with

SEL & PBIS

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• Individual social

skills instruction

• Targeted social

skills instruction

• SEL curriculum

• School climate

assessment

Tier 3: Intensive

Tier 2: Strategic

Tier 1: Universal

Illinois Related Initiatives

• Crisis counseling

• Individual support

teams/plans

• Psychiatric care

• Group

counseling/support

groups

• Staff & family

• Coordinated referral

process/progress

monitoring

• Mental Health

screening

• Prevention/Wellness

promotion

• Wraparound

• Complex FBA/BIP

• Individual planning

• Brief FBA/BIP

• Check-in/out

• Check/Connect

• Social academic

instructional groups

• School-wide behavior

expectations

• Acknowledge positive

behaviors

• Data-based planning

• Family group

conferencing

• Community

conferencing

• Peer Jury

• Conferencing

• Problem-solving

circles

• Circles

• Restorative chats

• Data-based

planning

Social Emotional

Learning Mental Health

Positive Behavioral

Interventions and

Supports

Restorative

Justice

•Restorative Practices and Special

Education—Australia

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RP and Special

Education

•Working Restoratively in a Special Education Setting - Nick Burnett.pdf

•Working Restoratively in a Special Education Setting - Sian Ziesing-Clark.pdf

•RP following Physical restraint - Nick Burnett.pdf

•http://www.varj.asn.au/conference-papers

•Inyahead Press materials

Bonnie Holland: tool for a restorative process

With students on the Autism spectrum

• Betz, l., Luecking, S., Parmentor, P., & Taylor, L. (2010) Wabash Community Unit School District #348 (IL) Program

Evaluation Report, https://sites.google.com/a/pbisillinois.org/il-pbis-web/publications/success-stories/success-story-

posts/africanamericanstudentsbenefitassuspensionsdrop

• Inyahead Press, Australia: http://www.inyahead.com/

• Morrison, BE., & Vaandering, D. (2012). Restorative Justice: Pedagogy, Praxis, and Discipline, Journal Of School

Violence, 11:2, 138-155. Retrieved 4/10/2012 at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15388220.2011.653322.

• Positive Behavior Intervention Supports, http://pbismn.org/

• Riestenberg, N. (2012 ). Circle in the Square, Building Community and Repairing Harm in Schools, Living Justice Press.

• Victoria Associaition of Restroative Justice and Restorative Pracitces International: http://www.varj.asn.au/conference-papers

References

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