RESTORATIVE PRACTICES in the Classroom: Build Better Relationships and More Effectively Manage Student Behavior (Grades K-12)

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Do you ever wish you could get through more lessons without having to correct misbehavior or redirect students? Do you often feel stressed out, tired and under pressure, while seldom managing to accomplish everything you planned for the day? In this seminarJo Ann Freiberg, a nationally recognized expert on restorative practices, will share numerous preventative measures designed to build healthy attitudes in students while producing healthy and productive relationships among students and staff. Learn how to shift the focus from rules broken and punitive consequences to the harm done and providing appropriate restorative consequences. Explore concrete and practical strategies for establishing effective classroom and school-based restorative routines.

Armed with an extensive digital resource handbook and a set of powerful strategies, you will leave this seminar with a renewed desire to make a marked difference with even your most challenging students.

Now, more than ever, we face many challenging behaviors in our classrooms and schools that interfere with learning and result in a loss of valuable instructional time. We want to experience different outcomes, but the tendency is for misbehavior to continue reoccurring. How can we break free of this cycle? How can we successfully manage student behavior and create better relationships?

At the core, working restoratively is about the truth that we are happier, healthier and more cooperative as humans when authority figures do things with us rather than to us or for us. The main reason why educators don't lead restorative classrooms and schools is that they simply do not yet have the necessary tools. I can help!

I have designed this seminar to share the ideas, strategies, techniques, and methods I have seen work with even the most challenging, disrespectful students and classrooms. In this seminar you will acquire these necessary tools! Becoming "restorative" is a journey, and I invite you to join me on this vitally important trek. Once you learn how to create restorative classrooms, you will never go back! Every classroom community member, adult and student, will benefit greatly.

I want to show you how to set exceptionally high expectations and provide the necessary supports for students to reach them. When inevitable problems and conflicts arise, I want you to have the tools to hold individuals accountable and responsible to repair the harm, rather than just being excluded from the community. It is harder and more impactful to fix a problem and repair the harm to relationships or property than it is to "do time."

Please join me and discover practical, commonsense restorative practices that we can successfully use to deal with and help challenging students in our classrooms and schools. You will leave this seminar with many practical strategies that you can put to use in your classroom immediately. In a short amount of time, you will be telling others emphatically, "This stuff works!"

P.S. If you could transform the life of just one student this year, your time will have been well spent. Invest one day with me and together we can make a real difference in the lives of your students.

K-12 Classroom Teachers, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, School Improvement Teams, Discipline Committee Members, In-School Suspension Supervisors, Paraprofessionals, and Administrators

Extensive Restorative Practices Digital Resource Handbook You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook giving you access to countless strategies before, during and after the seminar. The handbook includes:

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Consultation Available Jo Ann Freiberg will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

What you'll learn

• Practical ideas for more effectively using a restorative practices approach in classrooms and schools
• Strategies for effectively managing problematic behavior and preventing repeated resurfacing of misbehavior
• Practices to help students take responsibility, connect their behavior to the impact it has on others, and be able to repair any harm done
• Restorative techniques to help students develop skills to deal with difficult situations and progress socially, emotionally, behaviorally, and academically