Along with their home and natural environments, a child’s community is now recognized as a potential contributor to adverse childhood experiences. The results can be devastating for development. Substandard schools, intolerance, discrimination, and racism can lead to chronic health issues, minimum employment, and long-term poverty. Authors and educators Victoria Romero and Justin Hendrickson take us through an explanation.
Listen into this episode of the powerED Podcast featuring author Mike Kuczala. In the podcast, he discusses his new book, The Peak Performing Teacher.
Module 6 from The Restorative Practices Playbook lays out 4 common misconceptions about restorative circles.
"An Invitation to Learn in a Restorative Culture" from The Restorative Practices Playbook includes four lenses of invitational teaching and four possible types of teachers.
Use this self-assessment from The Restorative Practices Playbook to reflect on how you deal with students or staff when an incident or issue has arisen.
This introduction to The Restorative Practices Playbook includes hypothetical student stories and an invitation to explore your why.
"The Restorative Practices Playbook helps educators start or continue their restorative justice journeys, remain reflective about their practice, and make refinements to stay on track in their efforts."
Explore these charts that provide read aloud learning targets, key vocabulary, and reading focus guidance.
Learn about the Hope Wheel and how to use Hope Verbs to adapt content standards and create task goals.
This resource discusses tasks as opportunities to practice culturally relevant teaching and provides an activity for your classroom.
"...An approach that is simple in design but complex in execution. It is more than a little messy,...but is an organizational framework that can have a profound impact on student success and educator collective efficacy!"
This resource includes examples and ideas for preparing worked examples to support student understanding of the Break Apart and other strategies.