BBSS Academies #2 R ESTORATIVE CIRCLES Sara Teeter 9/20/18

1. BBSS Academies #2 RESTORATIVE CIRCLES Sara Teeter 9/20/18

2. Welcoming Ritual How comfortable are you with sharing how you feel?

3. Strategic Goals • Goal #1: • Expand opportunities for all students to learn and succeed. • Goal #2: • Enhance academic and emotional support so students can reach their potential.

4. Goals for Today • Academic Goal • Learn about Restorative Circles and how this impacts our students in school. • Social Goal • To respectively listen and participate in small group discussion.

5. Having the ability to restore health, strength, or a feeling of wellbeing

6. Restorative Practices is an alternative response to crime, harm, or misconduct that brings together all those involved in conflicts in a way (the methods vary) that help people address harms, assume responsibility, move past shame and guilt, work things out to everyone's satisfaction, and build stronger and healthier relationships with each other.

7. www.ibarj.org Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice Restorative Practices in Schools are inspired by the philosophy and practices of restorative justice, which puts repairing harm done to relationships and people over and above the need for assigning blame and dispensing punishment. 

8. THEORY One of the basic premises of Restorative Practices is that “human beings are happier, more cooperative and productive, and more likely to make positive changes in their behavior when those in positions of authority do things WITHthem, rather than to them or for them.” (Wachtel, 2005)

10. The Need to Think Differently About Discipline

11. The Need to Think Differently About DisciplineDisproportionality

12. What would it look like to disrupt the pipeline?

13. Circles: Alternative to Suspension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-RZYSTJAAo

14. Five Main Strands of Restorative Practice http://www.iirp.edu Affective Statements Affective Questions Small Impromptu chats Circles The Formal Conference

16. CIRCLES “The circle is a potent symbol. Its shape implies community, connection, inclusion, fairness, equality and wholeness.” (Costello, Wachtel, and Wachtel, 2010)

17. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Round-Table-Arthurian-legendhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Round-Table-Arthurian-legend KING ARTHUR Round Table, in Arthurian legend, the table of Arthur, Britain's legendary king, which was first mentioned in Wace of Jersey's Roman de Brut (1155). This told of King Arthur's having a round table made so that none of his barons, when seated at it, could claim precedence over the others.

18. Circles and Community • “There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace and ultimately no life, without community.” (M. Scott Peck) • “Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize their voice is welcome.” (Magaret J. Wheatley) • “If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance.” (George Carlin)

19. Circle Forward Carolyn Boyes-Watson Kay Pranis The Power of Circles • Whole Child Approach • The Importance of Relationships in Development and Learrning • A Whole School Approach • Positive Discipline • A Trauma-Sensitive Learning Environment • Mindfulness Practice

20. Seven Core Assumptions • THE TRUE SELF IN EVERYONE IS GOOD, WISE, AND POWERFUL • THE WORLD IS PROFOUNDLY CONNECTED • ALL HUMAN BEINGS HAVE A DEEP DESIRE TO BE IN A GOOD RELATIONSHIP • ALL HUMAN HAVE GIFTS, EVERYONE IS NEEDED FOR WHAT THEY BRING…………… • EVERYTHING WE NEED TO MAKE A POSITIVE CHANGE IS RIGHT HERE • HUMAN BEINGS ARE HOLISTIC • WE NEED PRACTICE PRACTICES TO BUILD HABITS OF LIVING FROM THE CORE SELF

21. Why Circles? • Equality: Everyone literally has equal seating • Safety and Trust: You can see everyone in the circle • Responsibility: Everyone plays a role • Reminds you to Facilitate: Rather than lecture • Builds Connections/Respect: Everyone hears everyone else’s response • Empathy and Emotional Literacy: greater opportunity to reflect on how everyone feels. • Problem Solving: Work our way through difficult places • Self-regulation and Self-awareness: need to listen, wait your turn, delay their own need to speak. • Shared Leadership: Every member is a leader and everyone member owns the decisions of the circles

22. Circle Forward Carolyn Boyes-Watson Kay Pranis ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS Seating all participants in a circle Mindfulness moment Opening Ceremony (welcoming ritual) Centerpiece Talking Piece Identifying Values Generating Guidelines Guiding Questions Agreements Closing Ceremony (optimistic closure)

23. The goal of this work is CONNECTEDNESS

24. Circle Forward Carolyn Boyes-Watson Kay Pranis Why Circles Can be Hard (Ask us to be together in a dramatically different way) • Circles ask us to slow down • The equality of Circles is in tension with Hierarchies • Circles invite us to speak from the • Circles ask us to prioritize building good relationships

25. Circle Forward Carolyn Boyes-Watson Kay Pranis General Guidelines • Respect the talking piece • Speak from the • Listen from the • Confidentiality • Remain in the circle

26. Guiding Questions • Prompting questions that are carefully constructed to build relationships, explore issues and concerns, and generate ideas moving forward. • Questions should encourage members to speak of their own lived experiences, stories from their lives, how the situation impacted their lives, and a focus on moving forward. Circle Forward Carolyn Boyes-Watson Kay Pranis

27. Types (examples) of Circles(Costello, Watchel, and Watchel, 2010) Pro-Active Responsive • Sequential Go-Around • Non-sequential Circles • Highly Structured • Loosely Structured • Unstructured • Fish Bowls • Optional Empty Chair • Check-in and Check-out • Other • Games • Academics- review • Addressing specific incidents that have occurred • In the classroom • In the school • In the community • Crisis • Etc. • Formal Restorative Conferences

28. Find the Chicago Public Schools Restorative Practices Toolkit and additional resources at: cps.edu/SEL

29. Circles and BBSS • Morning community check-ins as a classconnected to classroom practices/routines and procedures • To teach academics • To teach social skills • Behavioral Lesson Plans • Social Academic Instructional Groups • Response to classroom incidents connected to school-wide expectations • School-wide response to crisis

30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSJ2GPiptvc

31. PRACTICE TIME!!

32. QUESTIONS ??

33. OPTIMISTIC CLOSURE WHAT WILL YOU TAKE BACK TO YOUR BUILDINGS ABOUT CIRCLES???????

34. Resources • www.PBIS.org • ISF monograph (aligning with community partners)https://www.pbis.org/school/school-mental-health/interconnected-systems • Technical Guide for Alignment of initiatives, programs and practices in school districtshttp://www.pbis.org/blueprintguidestools/technical-guide • Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice: www.ibarj.org • International Institute of Restorative Practices (IIRP): http://www.iirp.edu • National Association of Community and Restorative Justice:http://nacrj.org • #rethinkdiscipline

35. Resources • Costello, Bob, Joshua Wachtel, and Ted Wachtel. The Restorative Practices Handbook: For Teachers, Disciplinarians and Administrators. Bethlehem, PA: International Institute for Restorative Practices, 2009. Print. • Costello, Bob, Joshua Wachtel, and Ted Wachtel. The Restorative Circles in Schools: Building Community and Enhancing Learning. Bethlehem, PA: International Institute for Restorative Practices, 2010. Print. • Wachtel, Ted, Terry O’Connell, and Ben Wachtel. Restorative Justice Conferencing: Real Justice & The Conferencing Handbook. Bethlehem, PA: International Institute for Restorative Practices, 2010. Print. • Boyes, Watson, Carolyn and Pranis Kay. Circle Forward: Building a Restorative School Community. Ann Arbor, MI: Sheridan Books, 2015. Print.