Our students have simultaneously been dealing with being cut off from school, the serious safety concerns of a pandemic, and our nation’s confrontation with race...

How will we re-establish school as a source of safety, stability, love, and respect, and create a space in which we can listen to our students and guide them to process their feelings and experiences over the past several months?

This is not a lecture - Participants will experience and reflect on restorative practices such as community-building circles and leave this workshop with several practical tools and resources that give them the confidence that they are prepared to start this school year and meet the social-emotional needs of their students. These techniques are of course suitable for in-person learning, but we’ll make sure that everyone can implement them in virtual settings as well.