{"data":{"ID":977,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1572274482,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building School Community: Implementing Restorative Practices","Handle":"building_school_community--implementing_restorative_practices","ShortDescription":"Building an authentic community in your classroom or school is challenging, especially when members of that community have differing backgrounds, beliefs, and social-emotional skills. Further, traditional disciplinary methods often do not teach students about how their behavior impacts the learning and social-emotional health of the community. Let\u2019s discuss how Restorative Practices address these pertinent issues.","Description":"Building authentic community is more important now than ever. Humans build community when they understand each other and understand how their own behavior impacts each other. However, sometimes students are insulated from building authentic community for any number of reasons. Whether it\u2019s understanding empathy, building capacity, or finding voice, our students need to advocate for themselves in healthy, reciprocal, and transcendent ways. It\u2019s our job to help them. In using Restorative Practices, we can build community and address harm in a way that respects all students, meets them where they are, and helps them move forward in their own growth. \r\nIn this session, we\u2019ll discuss Restorative Practices, share the ways that we\u2019ve used them with our students--from elementary through high school--and provide you the opportunity to experiment with these practices and to reflect on ways that you can use them in your own professional setting.","Link":["http:\/\/leveluplead.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will introduce the tenets of restorative practices and explain why we\u2019ve chosen to use this in our respective settings (elementary school in replacement for \u201ctraditional\u201d discipline and in a high school English classroom). We will also share a brief example or two of how we\u2019ve used these practices with students. In order to give attendees the opportunity to experience restorative practices, we will facilitate scenarios and\/or a restorative circle, leaving time at the end for reflection and brainstorming for how attendees may choose to use elements of restorative practices in their own settings.","Presenter":["Brian Kulak","Anna Muessig"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Collingswood Public Schools"],"PresenterEmail":["leveluplead@gmail.com","anna.s.muessig@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":137,"ScheduleLocationID":9,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":9}}