Restorative Justice

11:30 AM

Restorative Justice Practices - Behaviour Development (Personal Development: centre of

restorative justice)

NOTES:

- Taking responsibility for their behaviour. Encourage them to be accountable not just towards
the teacher but to the people involved.

- R-12 age appropriate as a part of developmental growth, insert conflict resolution and social
skills

- It's a way of thinking going into situation. It's a culture of principles and processes.

- Challenge; time available to have the conversations with the students

- VISION: improved harmony in communities

- Student work separately and then come together

- A conflict management system: modelling the behaviour

- Talking to individual parties before bringing the students together to make sure they will
create no further harm

- CHALLENGE; parents want to be present at meeting and teaching needed to show evidence
and reasoning for their actions

- Dealing with shame is a threating process, confronting conflict is threating. It's a slower
process

- Needs to have a sense of community, relationships and accountability among the school and
classrooms/

- Build relationships at the beginning of the year and continue this throughout the year. Don't
just turn to the curriculum

- *There are still consequences. The consequence can be devised from the person who was
harmed

- One boy v three girls and a behaviour (the girls came up with a very good consequence)

- Social development operating domains

- Restorative is working WITH students

- Power in authentic apology

- Saying 'sorry' is just a word. Unless they can show it in their actions. If you do it again, the
change has not occurred and the sorry meant nothing. What are you sorry for? And 'it's okay'
is not a good response (e.g. saying sorry when late to class)

- The art of apology - they do not have to accept the apology but must acknowledge it

- To parents: instil in the students and hope it carries on. Break down and explain it to parents.
Give them resources.

- COMMUNITION: words = 7%, tone = 38%, whereas facial expression and body language make
up the rest

"I'm sorry for… because… and…" (what I'm going to do)