Meet The Team
Dean of School Culture
Leigh-Ellen Figueroa-Starr
413.552.1580 x219
lfigueroa@pvpa.org
Restorative Practices
Restorative practice is a collection of guiding principles, frameworks and structures that provide opportunities to proactively build healthy and supportive relationships between members in a community, reduce unwanted behaviors and encourage healthy behaviors, and resolve conflict, repair harm and restore relationships.
PVPA’s Restorative Practice GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1. Community Building: Relationships and community help people be more creative, happy and engaged. When people have relationships they are more likely to have understanding and react less severely when conflict arises. |
2. Harm and Impact: RP focuses on harm and relationships rather than rules and laws. When we understand what people feel and identify what they need, it can lead to genuine conflict resolution and harm repair. |
3. Support and Accountability: RP provides support to meet expectations and holds people accountable to those expectations. Support and accountability keeps our community safe and predictable |
4. Engagement & Empowerment: RP makes space for all voices to be heard. Those involved in conflict or harm are involved in the peacemaking process and resolution. |
5. Trauma Sensitive/ Informed: RP focuses on relationships, feelings, needs, choice and empowering those involved to be agents. Circle process is predictable, inclusive, and creates safe containers for difficult conversations |
6. Developmental Rights: All children deserve positive childhood environments, where they can learn and develop social-emotional skills. Mistakes can be learning opportunities and guide future choices. |
adapted from McLaughlin and Motel 2016
PVPA’s Restorative Practice FRAMEWORKS
PVPA uses three frameworks to hold Restorative Practice. Each framework uses a multi-tiered system of support to serve the needs of all students.
School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) |
Trauma-Sensitive Schools (TSS) |
Restorative Justice Response (RJR) |
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Tier 1: Whole community |
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Tier 2: Approximately 10-15% of students who need additional support |
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Tier 3: Approximately 5% of students with the highest need for support |
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PVPA’s Restorative Practice STRUCTURES
The structures are the institutional format for providing Tier 1 supports. Structures include teams, times, spaces and systems
School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) |
Social-Emotional Learning | Office of School Culture | Academic and Emotional Supports |
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