The Restorative Justice In Schools and Community will be a powerful gathering of educators, student-teachers, parents, organizers and student leaders aimed at sharing skills and developing next steps for restorative practices that can help build cultures of peace in our schools. Workshops will provide concrete examples and process-oriented stories by groups running restorative justice programs in schools and communities like peace circles for resolving conflict and community building, parent-run peace rooms, youth-led peer juries, classroom meetings, motivational interviewing, and organizing training for school security personnel. Often in each school there are a couple of faculty and staff who really believe and are practicing RJ with little or no support, large group discussions will focus on next steps for building restorative support structures and systems in schools that can help foster safer and restorative school-wide cultures. Please join us for a day of inspiration grounded in the real stories and experiences of those trying to make things right for the young people we serve and love.
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011
Time: 9:00AM-3:30PM
Place: Chicago Teachers Center, 770 North Halsted
9:00: Registration/Breakfast
9:30-10:30: Practioner Panel Discussion
10:45-12:00: Breakout session I
-Peace Circles
-Motivational Interviewing
-Security Guard Training
12:00-1:00: LUNCH (Creating a Restorative Justice Infrastructure in your school)
1:15-2:30: Breakout session II
2:45-3:30: Keynote Speaker
9:30-10:30: Practioner Panel Discussion
10:45-12:00: Breakout session I
-Peace Circles
-Motivational Interviewing
-Security Guard Training
12:00-1:00: LUNCH (Creating a Restorative Justice Infrastructure in your school)
1:15-2:30: Breakout session II
-Peer Jury
-Safety Lab
-Restorative Justice in the Classroom
-Parent Peace Room
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Breakout Session topics include:
Motivational Interviewing: Motivational Interviewing An Evidence-Based Restorative Practice—A student’s decision to change their behavior requires their will to do so. Research shows that when ambivalent, the way others help them think about it, makes all the difference (like no coercion). MI is an approach that with other RJ practices can help make traditional punishment obsolete.
Peer Juries: Peer Jury is an alternative to suspension and detention rooted in restorative justice principles. Through discussion and engaging activities, this workshop will focus on using peer jury and other restorative justice practices in school discipline. Local high school students will co-facilitate.
Peace Circles: Circles provide a space in which people come together and reach out to one another as equals. In an atmosphere of respect and non-judgmental concern for everyone, the circle is a safe place of confidentiality to talk about very difficult or important issues, to express feelings and concerns. In a school setting, circles can be a vital way to build safe space and trust, and as a way to work through conflict that allows all those involved in difficult circumstances to create new definitions of respect and accountability.
Parent-Run Peace Rooms: Parents from Power-PAC (Parents Organized to Win, Educate and Renew - Policy Action Council) will share their skills and experiences running school-based peace rooms in two elementary schools in Austin , and in one high school. At the centers community residents and parents, who have been trained in RJ practices, engage students in learning skills such as peace circles, family group conferences, self-appreciation and the appreciation of others in order to help them get through and deescalate conflict at school and home.
Security Training and Practices: Gender Just and Blocks Together will co-facilitate a popular education session that outlines their curriculum around LGBTQ rights, restorative justice practices and CPS school security guards.
Safety Lab: Creating Everyday Collective Responses to Oppression and Violence: This workshop will engage participants in trying out and practicing everyday strategies for collective healing, intervention, accountability, and prevention in response to everyday situations of violence.
Incorporating RJ in the classroom: Two CPS teacher-veterans will share practical classroom strategies for integrating the principles and practices of RJ into curriculum, service-learning, and building meaningful connections with students.
Conference sponsored by:
Northeastern Illinois University
Grow Your Own Illinois
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Chicago Teachers Center
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