Accountability Practices

Overview

Restorative practices are approaches to proactively build positive school culture and relationships while holding students accountable for disruptive behaviors and providing students an opportunity to repair harm and restore positive relationships. Restorative practitioners have a mindset of spending 80% of the time being proactive, using affective statements, affective questions, and small impromptu conversations with students. Twenty percent of the time is spent on responding to student's behaviors using circles and formal conferences, which take time and planning. Engaging in restorative practices result in fewer disruptive behaviors, suspensions, and expulsions which allows more time for educators and students to focus on in-school learning.

Restorative practices:

1. Builds healthy relationships between educators and students
2. Reduces and prevents harmful behavior; improves behavior
3. Repairs harm and restores positive relationships
4. Resolves conflict and holds individuals/groups accountable
5. Addresses and discusses the needs of the school community

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