Restorative practices proactively strengthen relationships, build community, and teach peacekeeping skills. This framework dismisses punitive discipline approaches that lead to suspension and expulsion, relying instead on accountability to the learning community as a tool for teaching children to navigate social problems and take responsibility for repairing harm. This course introduces foundational strategies that prepare children and adults in early learning programs to build community by seeing, listening, and learning from each other. (2 hours)
"Change me to we," surrounded by hands in a variety of skin colors clasped together.
Course objectives
- recognize restorative practices as an alternative to exclusionary approaches
- compare current teaching methods to restorative practices and plan ways to use restorative questions, restorative circles, and children's picture books to build community and uphold restorative values
