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This workshop provides foundational restorative concepts addressing the need to shift the punitive discipline model, which leads to disproportionality, to an equity-based approach. With a call for return to in-person instruction, educators must be ready to address the increased disparities and rebuild social ties affected by ongoing and amplified traumas.

Learner Objectives
This session will help participants:

• identify how the punitive discipline paradigm in schools has led to disproportionate discipline of students of color, expanding the school-to-prison pipeline, and understand how critical it is to support alternatives to suspensions;
• describe basic restorative concepts and how implementing restorative practices promotes respect for diversity and a safe and connected school climate; and
• develop language and practice to help other educators understand the benefits of implementing an equity-based approach of restorative practices within the school community.