Unit 4: What Would Restorative Practices Look Like for Me?

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Prioritizing and Selecting

When you are first beginning something new, the best way to promote success is to take it one step at a time and be mindful in your implementation. A school will not completely shift to a restorative justice approach overnight. Even if your whole school is not ready to make this change, you can start small within your own classroom. Read this guide from Milwaukee Public Schools on how they began their school year by prioritizing restorative practices. Pay special attention to Community Building and Trust, Circles as Safe Containers, Week 1, Week 3, and Week 7 while you are reading.

Select three practices that you could realistically implement in your classroom. These could be from your graphic organizer in Unit 3, this guide, or other articles from the course.

Make a plan

Now that you have selected your three practices, put your knowledge together by completing the graphic organizers below for each of the three practices to create a plan for implementation.

Reflection

As you have now completed this course, please submit this final reflection and compare it to your preassessment form answers. Reflect on how much you have learned and how taking this course will have a positive impact on your future students.

References

Public Schools, Milwaukee, and Milwaukee District Attorney. First 40 Days Guide - City.milwaukee.gov. 2013, https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/healthAuthors/MCDVSA/Events/Coming-Together-2014/First40DaysGuide-FosteringRestorativeClassrooms.pdf.