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Lindsay Lyons/Circles & Restorative Conferences Course
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Circles & Restorative Conferences Course

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  • 92 Lessons

Join us to learn our favorite practices for improving student-to-student relationships and responding to conflict between students. We’ll explore the format of Circles, a structure which promotes dialogue and understanding within your community, and other restorative practices as well as how to gather student experience data to support your response to their needs.
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Contents

Welcome!

Includes:

  • Our beliefs

  • Possible Pathways

Course Introduction
Our Beliefs

Module 1: Intro to Circles

Includes 6 lessons:

Includes 6 lessons:

  • Lesson 1: Why Circles?

  • Lesson 2: What are Circles?

  • Lesson 3: Generate Questions

  • Lesson 4a: Agreements in PreK-5

  • Lesson 4b: Agreements in 6-12

  • Lesson 5a: Watch a sample Circle in PreK-5

  • Lesson 5B: Watch a sample Circle in 6-12

  • Lesson 6: Develop & facilitate a Circle

Lesson 0: Hello from Kara!
Lesson 1: Why Circles?
Lesson 2: What are Circles?
Lesson 3: Generate Questions
Lesson 4a: Agreements in PreK-5
Lesson 4b: Agreements in 6-12
Lesson 5a: Watch a sample Circle in PreK-5
Lesson 5b: Watch a sample Circle in 6-12
Lesson 6: Develop & Facilitate a Circle

MODULE 2: Enhance Your Circle Practice

There are 3 lessons in this module

EQ: How do you ensure that circles become a favorite activity for you and your students?

Lesson 1: What do you love about Circles and what do you find challenging about circles?
Lesson 2: UDL: Multiple Means of Expression
Lesson 3: Types of Talkers
Lesson 4a: Student Voice in PreK-5
Lesson 4b: Student Voice in 6-12
Lesson 5a: Strategic Support in PreK-5
Lesson 5b: Strategic Support in 6-12
Lesson 6a: Community Building in PreK-5
Lesson 6b: Community Building in 6-12
Lesson 7a: Academic Circles: Processing the Learning Journey in PreK-5
Lesson 7b: Academic Circles: Processing the Learning Journey in 6-12
Lesson 8a: Academic Circles: Processing a Text in PreK-5
Lesson 8b: Academic Circles: Processing a Text in 6-12
Lesson 9a: Conflict Resolution Circles in PreK-5
Lesson 9b: Conflict Resolution Circles in 6-12
Lesson 10a: Academic Circles: Processing a Current Event or Societal Issue in PreK-5
Lesson 10b: Academic Circles: Processing a Current Event or Societal Issue in 6-12
Lesson 11: Design Your Next Circle

MODULE 3: Co-Planning Circles with Students & Building Capacity for Student Circle Keepers

Includes 12 lessons.

Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: Structure
Lesson 3: Student-friendly planning sheet
Lesson 4: Make your plan
Lesson 5a: Student-to-Student Coaching in PreK-5
Lesson 5b: Student-to-Student Coaching in 6-12
Lesson 6a: If/Then Situations in PreK-5
Lesson 6b: If/Then Situations in 6-12
Lesson 7a: Communicating/Partnering with Families in PreK-5
Lesson 8a: Sample topics for easy-entry circles in PreK-5
Lesson 8b: Sample topics for easy-entry circles in 6-12
Lesson 9a: Considerations for high-emotion topics in PreK-5
Lesson 9b: Considerations for high-emotion topics in 6-12
Lesson 10: Reflection Protocols for Circle
Lesson 11: Make your plan
Lesson 12: Prepare your students

MODULE 4: Repairing Harm and Resolving Conflict

Includes 7 lessons

Lesson 0: Hello from Lindsay!
Lesson 1: Why Restorative Conferences?
Lesson 2: What are Restorative Conferences?
Lesson 3: Generate Questions
Lesson 4a: Watch a sample restorative conference
Lesson 4b: Watch a sample restorative conference
Lesson 5a: Underlying Human Needs
Lesson 5b: Underlying Human Needs
Lesson 6: Practice Scenarios
Lesson 7: Make your plan

MODULE 5: Setting Up Structures to Amplify Restorative Practices

Includes 18 lessons

Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: Working within the Punitive Systems in Education
Lesson 3: The First Step: It’s not about me!
Lesson 4: What to Do After
Lesson 5: Communicating with families
Lesson 6: Take Action
Lesson 7: Utilize a Calm Space
Lesson 8: 5 Senses
Lesson 9: Box Breathing
Lesson 10: Movement Break
Lesson 11: Creation Activities
Lesson 12: Go-to Strategies
Lesson 13: Build your strategy library
Lesson 14: Developing Independence with the Strategy Library
Lesson 15: Building Capacity for Peer Support
Lesson 16: Building Community Awareness of Peer Struggles
Lesson 17: Building Capacity in your Colleagues
Lesson 18: Make your plan

MODULE 6: Analyzing Student Experience Data Framework

There's 12 lessons included in this module.

Lesson 0: Hello from Lindsay!
Lesson 1: Generate Questions
Lesson 2: What is Street Data?
Lesson 3a: Survey in PreK-5
Lesson 3b: Survey in 6-12
Lesson 4a: Kiva Panel in PreK-5
Lesson 4b: Kiva Panel in 6-12
Lesson 5a: Empathy Interview / Conferencing in PreK-5
Lesson 5b: Empathy Interview / Conferencing in 6-12
Lesson 6a: PhotoVoice / Art in PreK-5
Lesson 6b: PhotoVoice / Art in 6-12
Lesson 7a: Learning Walk (with students) in PreK-5
Lesson 7b: Learning Walk (with students) in 6-12
Lesson 8: Shadow a Student (great for counselors!)
Lesson 9a: Q-Sort in PreK-5
Lesson 9b: Q-Sort in 6-12
Lesson 10: Gather Student Experience Data
Lesson 11: Data Analysis Protocol
Lesson 12: Analyze your data