RESTORATIVE DISCIPLINE: Help Your Students Improve Their Behavior and Strengthen Their Learning

Presented by Julie Compton
Outstanding Educator and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Classroom Teachers, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Program Specialists, School Improvement Teams, Discipline Committee Members, and Administrators Serving Grades K-12

Dozens of ideas to effectively use a restorative discipline approach
Practical, easy-to-implement methods for reducing students' problematic behavior while increasing their desire to act more responsibly and respectfully
Proven restorative discipline strategies for building a productive learning environment involving quality relationships, effective interpersonal skills, and high-quality instruction
Classroom-proven ideas to help students systematically progress socially, emotionally, behaviorally, and academically

Practical Strategies

In this seminar, JULIE COMPTON, outstanding restorative practices educator and presenter, will share numerous preventive measures that are designed to build skills and attitudes in students while producing healthy and productive relationships among students and staff. You will learn a system of restorative practices that repair damaged relationships through reflective conversations that give students an opportunity to become aware of the harm they have caused and develop plans to make amends and move forward with a more positive attitude and behavior in the future. You'll leave this seminar with an extensive resource handbook, wealth of ideas for utilizing a restorative discipline approach, and renewed desire to make a difference in the lives of your most challenging students.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Incorporate Restorative Discipline Practices: Switch the Focus to Relationships First
Discover restorative strategies that allow teachers and students to prioritize building and sustaining positive relationships as an essential foundation for content lessons
Guide Students to Improve Their Behavior and Strengthen Their Learning
Discover the power of providing a roadmap for students to understand how their own behavior is impacting learning in the classroom … Here's how
Utilize Constructive, Restorative Alternatives to Suspension and Detention that Focus on Teaching and Learning Rather than Punishment
Learn how to create a restorative mindset that focuses on keeping, making, and building peace by shifting the focus from rules to relationships
Develop Valuable Verbal Skills for Building Community and Positive Identity in Your Students' Voice
Learn valuable verbal strategies for helping students resolve disagreements, demonstrate empathy, and take ownership of their behavior
Build Trust and Respect
Use an invitational style of classroom management that builds trust, respect and optimism
Reduce Student Misbehaviors
Dramatically decrease your students' misbehaviors using restorative discipline strategies
Discover the Power of the Classroom Treatment Agreement
Learn highly effective ways to proactively build a set of norms where students will be centered on how to treat each other and include adults included in this agreement
Respond Effectively to Problematic Behavior
Intervene appropriately in teaching students' constructive skills for dealing with triggering situations to stop recurring behavior problems
Avoid Escalation of Power Struggles
Learn specific ways to decrease power struggles without losing respect … Specific ways to verbally respond to upset or out-of-control students that de-escalate tense situations and lay the groundwork for a positive outcome
Receive a Valuable Restorative Discipline Digital Resource Handbook
Each seminar participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with the techniques, strategies and activities discussed in the seminar

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

The most effective use of proactive restorative approaches and strategies, effective language and community building circles to improve student behavior
Proven methods for promoting empathy in students that allow them to be conscious of the effect their behaviors and attitudes have on others
How to view misbehaviors and conflicts as "teachable moments"
Outstanding teaching strategies that help teachers implement necessary corrective discipline without resorting to consequences that are unrelated, unreasonable, or disrespectful
Preventive strategies that reduce the rates of suspension and expulsion
Verbal skills that help students manage conflict, own their behavior and express empathy
Alternatives to rewards and punishment
A plethora of practical ideas for building positive relationships between students and teachers
Procedures that encourage students to become self-regulated learners assuming increasing amounts of control over their school lives
A collection of field-tested verbal skills that take students seriously, require them to think and show them they can make a difference in their own school lives and the lives of others
What to say and what not to say to help bring out the best in students in-class and online
How to avoid escalation of power struggles using alternatives to increased force and control
Ways to make peacemaking in your school more explicit rather than part of the silent curriculum
Move students away from punishment and along a continuum from inappropriate behavior to remorse and on to making amends
The key steps necessary for creating an effective reentry plan for returning students for whom suspension was necessary

A Message from Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Educators have always been a first responder of sorts. We are with our students over 180 days each year. We see them at their best and at their worst. This has always been true. That's why so many of us remember some of our teachers over our entire lifetime. They were there when we needed an adult the most. The challenges of the past several years have left our students needing more support and understanding than ever before. We are seeing a "learning loss" that is frightening. Many of our students are experiencing feelings that impede the entire learning process, leaving them feeling unsure of themselves academically and socially. Being back in the classroom full time means sharing space with students who may or may not have the interpersonal skills to handle the conflict and frustration that comes with this territory.

There is hope on the horizon! With proven restorative discipline practices, we can significantly improve student behavior, reduce exclusionary discipline, and begin to mediate the loss so many students are dealing with. We can become the link between where our students were, where they are now, and where they need to be. This means academically, but it also means emotionally and socially. With appropriately used restorative practices, we can help our students gain greater empathy, manage conflict more productively, improve their behavior, and strengthen their ability to learn. It's a good day when you can say goodbye to challenging behaviors and say hello to a stronger culture of learning.

My goal for this interactive one-day seminar is to bring you dozens of practical strategies and ideas that will excite you about helping your students improve their behavior and strengthen their learning. You will be able to view their struggles as authentic opportunities for you to help and heal and empower your students to manage their problems more successfully. This confidence in their emotional skills will lead to greater academic confidence, and we know that confidence is a path to success. Please join me for a day full of learning that will have you looking forward to meeting your students exactly where they are. I promise to not waste a moment of your time.

Sincerely,
Julie Compton

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

Who Should Attend

Classroom Teachers, Title I Staff, Special Education Staff, Behavior Intervention Specialists, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Program Specialists, School Improvement Teams, Discipline Committee Members, and Administrators Serving Grades K-12

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

Strategies for transforming your discipline system to one based on restorative practices that foster learning and growth
Effective verbal skills that decrease conflict, promote intellectual intelligence, and communicate respect and caring
Techniques for helping students replace negative attitudes with positive ones
Clear steps on how to help students give up the victim stance and take personal responsibility for their choices and action

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.

Share Ideas with Other Educators
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in enhancing their discipline practices.

Consultation Available
Julie Compton will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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