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Driven by Connections – Fueled by Accountability

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Driven by Connections

Who teaches teachers how to connect with students? We do! Our Connection-Focused learning opportunities offer practical tools and processes for classroom educators to build, maintain, and manage connections with and among students. However, campus leaders should not overlook these opportunities. Leadership needs to have an understanding of these tools and processes to support successful implementation.

Fueled by Accountability

Traditional approaches to school discipline have focused on doling out consequences. However, when students understand and are accountable for how their behavior impacts others the odds of meaningful change increase. Our Accountability-Focused strategies and processes address the point where accountability and consequences collide. These opportunities are designed for campus administrators and other staff who address discipline referrals beyond the classroom.

 

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Connection-Driven
Learning Opportunities

Cut your Tier 1 classroom behaviors in half! Connection-Driven Classroom is a transformative learning experience with opportunities to practice concepts in small groups. Discover four powerful, proactive tools that help teachers teach and students learn by creating intentional connections in just under two minutes each. The focus is on seamlessly weaving these strategies into instruction to foster positive rapport and cross-connections (students-to-students, students-to-teacher, and teacher-to-students). Additionally, we will introduce a 5th tool to help students and educators create, adopt, and maintain classroom behavior standards. This tool can be used for redirection and reconnection.  Lay the foundation for profound, lasting connections.

Participants will:

  • learn a process proven to decrease Tier 1 behaviors
  • leave with four tools that take two minutes or less, a process to build a classroom agreement that establishes norms, provides a process to reestablish connections, and addresses a specific behavior.
  • walk away with an implementation guide and a connection planner
  • have opportunities to network and share ideas with other educators
  • have access to ongoing support
Circles are typically used to build community or address harm. Have you experienced a circle gone bad or been a part of a circle that wasn’t very structured? The Differentiated Discipline circle model is designed specifically for educational settings. Circles offer opportunities for students to work respectfully within the group. Learn how to build and facilitate a circle. Experience a variety of circles that create community, that explore and respond to behavior issues, and that repair harm when necessary.

Participants will:

  • network and share ideas with other educators
  • experience a variety of circles
  • learn to manage challenging behaviors within the circle
  • learn to build and facilitate circles using the Differentiated Discipline model
  • walk away with self-generated Circle Scripts
  • have access to ongoing support

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Accountability-Focused
Learning Opportunities

Develop a strategic approach to process discipline referrals that reduces, prevents, and improves student behavior. Disrupting Discipline is an innovative method that focuses on lowering disciplinary incidents not by reacting but by responding with insight. We will guide you through understanding each student’s unique needs and circumstances while embracing equity, diversity, and implications for behaviors. Learn to tailor consequences effectively and integrate strategies that minimize challenging behavior and recidivism. 

Participants will:

  • reflect on current corrective measures
  • consider the use of a “third alternative” to misbehavior
  • distinguish between symptoms and problems
  • walk away with a strategies, needs, and outcomes process
  • have access to ongoing support
  • network and share ideas with other administrators

 

Differentiated Disciplines’ Restorative Toolkit Training assists with shifting the paradigm about how schools view conflict and confrontation.  This training goes below the surface of the initial issue and examines the ripples of impact caused.  The Restorative Toolkit is a process that utilizes school-wide routines and procedures to proactively identify and respond to students’ needs It begins with accountability and guides you through a comprehensive process that considers all perspectives, acknowledges harm, and facilitates meaningful amends and reconnection, reducing recidivism rates. 

 Participants will:

  • network and share ideas with other administrators
  • walk away with 4 restorative interventions to assist with repairing connections
  • discover innovative techniques that will help students develop more effective problem-solving skills 
  • have access to ongoing support
  • experience and facilitate a restorative conversation
  • walk away with a process to shape and guide a restorative conference
  • learn the difference between a restorative conference and a circle 
  • understand the impact of harm

The Re-Entry Process is designed to ensure students returning from suspension or alternative placement are received in a manner in which purposeful preparation and collaborative planning have occurred prior to return. The Re-Entry Process supports academic, behavioral, and emotional success by identifying individual students’ support needs and then implementing multi-tiered systems of support.

Participants will:

  • network and share ideas with other administrators
  • learn DD’s approach to preparation through the  Re-Entry Circle Student Preparation Guide
  • practice Re-Entry Circle preparation
  • learn about the components of a Re-Entry Circle
  • walk away with DD’s Re-Entry Circle process, Circle scripts, and Student Support Plan
  • have access to ongoing support

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