Shifting the Paradigm: Changing School Climate with a School-wide Restorative Discipline Approach
First Presenter's Institution
Georgia Southern University
First Presenter's Brief Biography
Mary Jo Carney, M.S. is a first-year master's student in the Experimental Psychology program at Georgia Southern University. Mary Jo is a research assistant with a focus on conference development and implementation and scholarly interdisciplinary research for the NYAR Research Center. Her research interests include the intersection between autonomic nervous system dysfunction and emotion dysregulation in populations diagnosed with neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and traumatic brain injury conditions, and the application of neuro-rehabilitative and talk therapies for children, adolescents, and adults with symptoms of ANS dysfunction and emotion dysregulation.
Second Presenter's Institution
Georgia Southern University
Second Presenter’s Email Address
jmcbrayer@georgiasouthern.edu
Second Presenter's Brief Biography
Dr. Juliann Sergi McBrayer is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and is a Co-Director of the NYAR Research Center centered around scholarly practitioner and interdisciplinary research via community partnerships. As a scholarly practitioner, her research interests include the development, implementation, assessment, and impact of educational leadership programs with a focus on purposeful, collaborative, and sustainable professional learning and programming to ensure effectiveness and accountability while emphasizing P-20 community partnerships.
Third Presenter's Institution
Georgia Southern University
Third Presenter’s Email Address
summer.pannell@sfasu.edu
Third Presenter's Brief Biography
Professor of Educational Leadership; Experienced school leader with a demonstrated history of leading school improvement; Skilled in K-12 Education, Classroom Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, and School Leadership and Turnaround; Published author and national presenter on issues in educator preparation, teacher retention, and educational leadership; Strong education professional with a Ph.D. focused in Educational Leadership from the University of Mississippi.
Document Type
Event
Primary Strand
Restorative Practices
Relevance to Primary Strand
This session will equip administrators and school staff with the knowledge and skills to build positive relationships and build a school community. Participants will learn how to implement strategies to foster positive relationships, address harm and trauma, and improve school climate for all stakeholder groups.
Alignment with School Improvement Plan Topics
Student Learning and Development
Brief Program Description
This instructional and experiential workshop presents the tools for implementing a successful restorative discipline model that places the importance of relationships at the heart of the educational experience in order to build healthy school communities, support students and teachers, and address discipline issues. Participants will learn steps to assess the readiness of their schools for this approach and the action steps they can begin to take to convey and implement Restorative Discipline concepts in ways that ensure necessary buy-in from a variety of stakeholder groups.
Summary
This session will equip administrators and school staff with the knowledge and skills to build positive relationships and build a school community. Through the exploration of effective strategies to address mindset change and implementing a schoolwide Restorative Discipline model, participants will learn how to implement strategies to foster positive relationships, address harm and trauma, and improve the school climate for all stakeholder groups.
This instructional and experiential workshop presents the tools for implementing a successful restorative discipline model that places the importance of relationships at the heart of the educational experience in order to build healthy school communities, support students and teachers, and address discipline issues. Participants will learn steps to assess the readiness of their schools for this approach and the action steps they can begin to take to convey and implement Restorative Discipline concepts in ways that ensure necessary buy-in from a variety of stakeholder groups.
Evidence
Restorative Discipline has been a statewide initiative in Texas for several years and has been linked to improvement in student behavior, reduction in discipline incidents, and improved overall school climate in many school districts since its implementation.
Learning Objective 1
Getting acquainted with the Range of Restorative Practices for a Whole School Approach
Learning Objective 2
Practicing circle development for different purposes (Community Building, Problem Solving, Teaching Academics, Faculty Meetings, Peer-Led Leadership)
Learning Objective 3
Practicing respect agreement circles to build relational and operational guidelines for the Leadership Response Team.
Learning Objective 4
Managing the Change Process and Making it Happen
Recommended Citation
Carney, Mary Josephine; McBrayer, Juliann; and Pannell, Summer, "Shifting the Paradigm: Changing School Climate with a School-wide Restorative Discipline Approach" (2023). Southeast Conference on School Climate. 21.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/secsc/2023/2023/21
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Shifting the Paradigm: Changing School Climate with a School-wide Restorative Discipline Approach
This session will equip administrators and school staff with the knowledge and skills to build positive relationships and build a school community. Through the exploration of effective strategies to address mindset change and implementing a schoolwide Restorative Discipline model, participants will learn how to implement strategies to foster positive relationships, address harm and trauma, and improve the school climate for all stakeholder groups.
This instructional and experiential workshop presents the tools for implementing a successful restorative discipline model that places the importance of relationships at the heart of the educational experience in order to build healthy school communities, support students and teachers, and address discipline issues. Participants will learn steps to assess the readiness of their schools for this approach and the action steps they can begin to take to convey and implement Restorative Discipline concepts in ways that ensure necessary buy-in from a variety of stakeholder groups.
