Educators will:
  • Learn how to build healthy, positive, engaged relationships with your co-workers, administration and your students
  • Learn the steps and key components of facilitating a restorative circle 
  • Deconstructing power dynamics moving from authoritarian classroom and school management to shared ownership
  • Develop your skills in dealing with difficult behaviours with a focus on bullying 
  • Restorative Pedagogy
  • Restorative conversations about how to address mental health and well being
  • How to address on-going common school-based harm

RESTORATIVE PRACTICE SESSION FACILITATORS
Stephen Young: 
Author of The Restorative Principal.  www.restorative.ca
  • Retired teacher and principal, 30 years in the York Region District School Board, lives in Ottawa. 
  • Lead in his school board for the coordination of RP programs, organizing and delivering staff training, facilitating formal conferences, and educating the school community about RP. 
  • Master’s degree in Restorative Practices from the IIRP Graduate School in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

Brenda Reinkeluers
www.restorativematters.ca
  • A restorative practice consultant with a progressive approach to establishing, building, and repairing relationships within school communities. 
  • Led numerous Pro-active Circles in school communities. 
  • Over twenty-five years experience working with youth and educators
  • Master's degree with a concentration in restorative practices and certification in restorative justice 
  • Has led workshops for school boards and the National Restorative Justice Symposium

Joellen McHard, Executive Director, Lanark County Community Justice (LCCJ)
www.commjustice.org
  • First Executive Director of Victim Services Lanark County / Founder 
  • First Program Coordinator of the Lanark County Volunteer Hospice Visiting Services. / Founder
  • Supervisor of Addiction Services at Ottawa Detox. 
  • Primary Care Outreach to Seniors at the North Lanark Community Health Centre. 
  • Degree in Sociology and a degree in Gerontology.
  • Andrew Leach, Retired Principal, OCDSB
  • Retired Principal, Ottawa Carleton District School Board
  • Facilitator with LCCJ and champion for the community use of restorative practice
  • Coordinator of LCCJ's BE STRONG program supporting restorative practices in schools and youth centres
  • Active OCDSB Substitute Principal promoting restorative practices with staff and students
  • Member of Planet Youth Lanark County Steering Community
  • Volunteer Facilitators with 20+ years experience in facilitating Restorative Justice

Restorative Practice is an evidenced based method with impressive outcomes to:
  • increase feelings of safety in schools
  • reduced suspensions and expulsions
  • reduced bullying
  • increased sense of connection in students
  • reduced mental health challenges in students
  • improved classroom management
  • improved school climate
  • many, many other benefits you will learn about

Summary:
4th Thursday of every month, September to June
4:10pm to 5:40pm
Online via Zoom (you will be sent a Zoom Invite when you register).

Open to all types of educators in the CDSBEO and the UCDSB. Priority Registration will be given to Educators in Lanark County.
Participation is voluntary, unpaid and offered by a non-profit charity.
Funding is provided by the United Way East Ontario.

To register: use the form below or email [email protected]
This course is offered free of charge to educators who want to make this the best year ever!