Restorative Practices

At the core, Restorative Practices is about building and restoring relationships.

  Through restorative practices, members of the school community will:

• Have opportunities to be heard
• Form connections and stronger relationships
• Understand the greater impact of one's actions
• Learn and practice taking responsibility
• Repair the harm one's actions may have caused
• Recognize one's role in maintaining a safe school environment
• Build upon and expand on personal relationships in the school community
• Recognize one's role as a positive contributing member of the school community.  

Positive Outcomes for School Communities

 Evidence from practice suggests that by implementing Restorative Practices, schools can expect: 

• Improvements in attitudes and relationships across the whole school community. 
• An increase in the engagement and learning of students in the classroom.
• Growth in relational and problem-solving skills, both for adults and students across the school community.
• A calmer school environment, with less classroom disruption and more time for teaching.
• Decrease in out-of-school suspension.
• Decrease in school expulsions.
• Decrease in tardies and absences.
• Reduction in racial disproportionate discipline practices.