Bringing Holistic Restorative Practices to Life: Practical Applications for Implementation
Date:
May 6, 2027 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Price:
Topics:
- Equity
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- General Education
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- Social-Emotional Learning
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- Systems Thinking
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- Trauma
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- Well-Being
Instructor(s):
Camille Koosmann
Event Type:
In-Person
Professional Learning Hours:
12
Intended Audience:
K-12 educators who have prior learning in trauma-informed and holistic restorative practices who are ready to deepen their practice.
Participants must attend both days:
- May 6, 2027
- May 7, 2027
This offering is part of a pilot microcredential in Holistic Restorative Practices. Read more.
Prerequisite: Completion of either Trauma-Informed Restorative Supports & Interventions or Foundations of Holistic Restorative Practices or the equivalent. Please contact Wendy Cohen with eligibility questions.
In order to successfully implement restorative practices in their schools, educators, youth, and school leaders need time and space to think about how this work applies in their context. This training builds on understanding of trauma-informed and restorative practices to “level up” holistic restorative practices (HRP) implementation at their school.
On day one, participants will explore the continuum of restorative practices with a focus on responding to unexpected behavior, conflict, and harm throughout the school. These practices include restorative communication, a student-directed peer conflict resolution protocol, circles, and more. The final day will focus on individual, small group, and whole-school implementation. Participants will learn about Starling Collaborative’s approach to evaluating the readiness for or impact of restorative practices in their contexts. They will then work to create data-driven action plans for introducing or strengthening HRP in their schools.
Participants will learn how to more effectively:
- Use a continuum of trauma-informed and restorative practices to respond to harm and conflict in schools.
- Review classroom and school routines, practices, expectations, and policies through a restorative lens.
- Evaluate their school’s readiness, needs, and strengths related to implementing HRP, what is possible to implement independently, and next steps to increase whole-school readiness.
- Determine next steps for increasing capacity, skill, and motivation of youth and adults for formal restorative responses to harm.
- Create meaningful action plans for implementing HRP at their school sites.
Why is this event in person? We find that our hands-on restorative learning environment is much more powerful when we are all in the room together. Many of the interactive activities we will do together cannot translate to a virtual experience. Participants should be able to attend both sessions. The second session builds significantly on the content of the first.
This series is part of a pilot 6 day microcredential in Holistic Restorative Practices. The microcredential is for beginning and seasoned practitioners who would like to transform how they and their schools create conditions for learning, building community, responding to conflicts, and supporting adult and student well-being. Strategies are drawn from the fields of restorative practices, trauma-informed approaches, equity & inclusion, mindfulness, and social-emotional.
Learn more about the micocredential.
