Just Schools

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Just Schools

• Restorative Justice in Educational Settings

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• Good relationships need to be at the heart of
  everything a school does if effective teaching
  and learning are to take place.

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The values that underpin a commitment to
building, maintaining repairing relationships
include

valuing others emotional literacy
mutual respect honesty openness
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The skills needed to build, maintain and repair
relationships include
valuing others tolerance
active listening
emotional articulacy
conflict management
empathy being non-judgemental
mutual respect honesty openness
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Processes that build, maintain and repair
relationships include
valuing others tolerance
restorative approaches
active listening
emotional articulacy
conflict management
empathy being non-judgemental
mutual respect honesty openness
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• What situations or events during a school day
  can cause distress, upset, frustration,
  misunderstanding, conflict, worry or offence to
  members of the school community and thereby
  threaten relationships?

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• What do I need when Ive been harmed?
• An apology
• An empathetic listener
• Amends made
• The other person to understand what has upset me
• To be respected
• To be allowed to have emotion
• Support and positive reinforcement
• Reassurance it wont happen again
• To draw a line underneath it

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• What do I need when I have harmed
• someone else?
• To apologise
• Someone to talk to
• Time to put things right
• To make it up to them
• A chance to explain to other person and myself
• To feel better about it
• and about myself
• To be forgiven
• To reassure them/myself it wont happen again
• To get back on friendly terms

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• What do I need when Ive been harmed?
• An apology
• An empathetic listener
• Amends made
• The other person to understand what has upset me
• To be respected
• To be allowed to have emotion
• Support and positive reinforcement
• Reassurance it wont happen again
• To draw a line underneath it

• What do I need when Ive harmed someone else?
• To apologise
• Someone to talk to
• Time to put things right
• To make it up to them
• A chance to explain to other person and myself
• To feel better about it
• and about myself
• To be forgiven
• To reassure them/myself it wont happen again
• To get back on friendly terms

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• Whether you have caused harm or been affected by
  it your needs are essentially the same and its
  the same for everyone else adult or young
  person!
• Are there opportunities in your school for these
  needs to be addressed and met?
• How can they be addressed and met?

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• The challenge to address conflicts and harmful
  situations in a way that, at the very least, does
  not harm relationships, and at best builds and
  repairs them

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• Traditional Questions
• What happened? (fact finding)
• Who is to blame?
• What is the appropriate response to deter and
  possibly punish those at fault, so they will not
  do the same thing again?

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• Restorative Questions
• Whats happened? (differing perspectives)
• Who has been affected?
• How can we involve everyone who has been affected
  in finding a way forward?
• How can everyone do things differently in the
  future?

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• Traditional Questions
• What happened?
• Who is to blame?
• What is the appropriate response to deter and
  possibly punish those at fault, so they will not
  do the same thing again?

• Restorative Questions
• Whats happened?
• Who has been affected?
• How can we involve everyone who has been affected
  in finding a way forward?
• How can everyone do things differently in the
  future?

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The Five Magic Questions

• What happened?
• What were you thinking?
• How were you feeling?
• Who else has been affected by this?
• What do you need now so that the harm can be
  repaired ?

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Restorative Enquiry
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Mediation

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Restorative Conference
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A Whole School Restorative approach can
contribute to

• Happier and safer schools
• Mutually respectful relationships
• More effective teaching and learning
• Reducing exclusion
• Raising attendance

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A Whole School Restorative approach can
contribute to

• Emotional Literacy
• Addressing bullying behaviours
• Reducing staff turnover and burnout
• Raising morale and self-esteem
• Culture of inclusion and belonging

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Belinda Hopkins can be contacted at

• Transforming Conflict
• National Centre for Restorative
• Justice in Schools
• Mortimer Hill,
• Mortimer
• Berks
• RG7 3PW
• Tel/fax [phone]
• Belinda_at_transformingconflict.org
• www.transformingconflict.org