Restorative Practices: Consequences and Restorative Practices Work Hand In Hand

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This Restorative Reminder is from a training where Kelvin Oliver explains why traditional consequences and restorative practices shouldn’t be administered independently. One of the biggest misapplications of Restorative Practices is when an administrator assigns a student a consequence and later has the student go to a counselor or social working for “Restorative Practices”. For one, this isn’t how Restorative Practices works. If someone does this and refers to it as Restorative Practices, they need to reevaluate the Restorative Practices model they are implementing. The larger issue is that implementing consequences and restorative practices independently renders both to be ineffective when the goal is to change challenging student behavior. The goal of Restorative Practices is to change challenging behavior through organic accountability and teaching appropriate behavior. Traditional Consequences play a vital role in this process because they can provide the structure and time that is needed to implement the Restorative Practices. So in order for either to be effective, Traditional Consequences and Restorative Practices must work hand in hand.
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Kelvin Oliver is an Educational Consultant specializing in teaching the whole child through Restorative Practices and Social/Emotional Learning.
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