Curriculum + Activities
An easy and effective way to give positive acknowledgements to a student or adult so that you can see a behavior or action repeated. For a typical student the hope is 4 positive acknowledgments for every 1 correction and if the child has had trauma then it is 20 positive acknowledgments for every 1 correction.
Do you want to have more restorative conversations instead of reactionary? Download this card…One side is questions for the one causing the harm and the other is questions for the one being harmed.
Do you have that friend, sibling, coworker, or other that needs a daily reminder of how $#@%^ cool they are?
Here is a download (in color) that you can print on card stock and pop in a little campus bag to gift to them.
Daily reminder that THEY ARE THE &^%*&( THEY ARE!
If your room is chaotic- you probably need routines. I have a list of routines I have taught every year to every grade (even high school). I never assume a child knows my expectations, so I teach them and reteach them after every long break and when any new student joins us.
When you are creating your lesson plans and need a quick differentiation guide to reference- here you go.
I have run hundreds of restorative justice circles and restorative mediation sessions in my classroom over the years. I found that following these steps each time gave my students the tools to start running them on their own using the familiar language we had used.
I use these icebreakers during brain breaks, the beginning of the school year and sometimes after a long break.
A quick fun story to explain the differences between Real number, natural numbers, integers, etc.
In this day and age, most humans you encounter have had some serious trauma happen to them…research says that 1 in 3 children are now seeing the effects of it. Creating a Trauma-Informed space is a necessity. This also includes the steps to have a trauma sensitive conversation and a breathe meditation.
A list of routines to teach all age students. Don’t assume they know how to do any of these actions because even if they did it last year…trauma changes our brains and they may have to relearn it.
A quick guide on how to introduce circles before you use them for restorative purposes. It lessons the anxiety for children if the structure is already established.
