Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms

Teachers who use restorative processes in the classroom have much more energy at the end of the day than their peers.

Teachers who have successfully integrated restorative practices into their classrooms tell us:

• Using Restorative Practices saves them so much time that they used to spend managing behavior.
• Their classroom feels so much calmer than it did before.
• Now that they use Restorative Processes regularly, there is extremely positive energy in their classroom.
• The number of referrals to the principal's office they write has plummeted.
• Students report feeling safe and valued in school.
• Students come back to school with stories of how they used what they learned in the classroom to prevent fights from breaking out with friends or family outside of school.
• Students with the most challenging behaviors love having a meaningful connection to adult role models.
• Less time and energy is spent on discipline and more is given to teaching!