SEL and RP

Classroom activities that encourage students' social and emotional learning and promote restorative practices

RP Video Library: This video shows the power of an effectively teacher facilitated circle to build community and address issues.  The circle is implemented with fidelity, according to the key restorative circle components found at our introduction to circles.

RP Video Library:  This video shows the power of an effectively student facilitated restorative circle to build community through storytelling.  The circle is implemented with fidelity, according to the key restorative circle components found at our introduction to circles.

RP Video Library:  In this video, administration, staff and students talk about the school’s transition from punitive practices to restorative practices and how the shift in mindset and practice impacted relationships at the school and school culture overall. 

RP Video Library: In this video, administration and school staff talk about what restorative practices are, why we use restorative practices and what they look like implemented holistically in a school.

How can activists - including young people who are organizing against gun violence - sustain themselves for the long haul? In this activity, students consider quotes from activists of all ages about their self care strategies. 


 

Register for our webinar to learn the basics of conflict resolution from a social and emotional learning standpoint (free & available on demand).

Empathy isn’t just a quality – it’s a skill that can be learned. Here’s an activity to help students practice their empathy skills.

We all have self-talk. Fortunately, we, and our students, can learn to shape what that self-talk is.

Register for this webinar to learn concrete SEL strategies to improve classroom climate (available for free and on demand)!  Included in AFT & Share my Lesson's Top Resources of 2017.

An “I Need Message” is a short and sweet way for students to be assertive and get their needs met, even with people they don’t know well.