SWPBIS, Restorative Practices, and Student Voice for Inclusion and Equity: Building Positive, Engaging, and Supportive School Climates. Rosanne C. Wilson, Specialist for Positive Behavior Supports Community Conference Facilitator, IIRP trainer

School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports SWPBIS is a proactive framework for establishing the behavioral supports and social culture needed for all students to achieve social, emotional, and academic success. This framework is a multi-tiered system of supports that assists school personnel in adopting and organizing evidence-based social and academic behavioral interventions for students into an integrated continuum through defining, teaching, and acknowledging behavioral expectations.

Restorative Practices in Schools are inspired by the philosophy and practices of restorative justice, which puts repairing harm done to relationships and people over and above the need for assigning blame and dispensing punishment.  www.ibarj.org

Student Voice is a three-tiered model (Quaglia and Corso, 2014) for educators who aspire to engage students as partners in making decisions about their educational experience. These educators do more than merely listen to students. They amplify student voice by: listening to students learning from students leading with students

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Both emphasize prevention and positive responses to problem behavior. SWPBIS and Restorative Practices are whole-school models that can be used hand in hand to increase positive outcomes for student behavior. Both emphasize prevention and positive responses to problem behavior. SWPBIS’ multi-tiered structure for implementing practices and the systematic use of data provide a framework for using restorative practices that include a process for including youth, staff, and community voice within that framework. Both SWPBIS and Restorative Practices place high value on youth and staff engagement and involvement. (The California Conference for Equality and Justice, 2013).

They support social-emotional learning for youth and staff, and are seen as effective strategies to lower racially disproportionate discipline referrals by offering adults alternative responses to student misbehavior. PBIS shifts adults’ focus from punishing and excluding to teaching and acknowledging positive student behavior, while restorative practices encourage personal reflection, accountability, and healing for both students and adults. Both approaches seek to enforce positive behavior and uplift student strengths. (The California Conference for Equality and Justice, 2013). (International institute for Restorative Practices, IIRP)

Prevention & Skill Building Prevention & Skill Building A CONTINUUM OF RESTORATIVE PRACTICES A CONTINUUM OF SWPBIS PRACTICES Intensive Intervention Return from suspension Administrative transfer or school crime diversion: Victim offender meetings Family/community group conferences Restitution Intensive Intervention Function-based support Wraparound support ~80% of Students ~15% ~5% Early Intervention Alternatives to suspension: Youth/peer court Peer mediation Conflict resolution training Restitution Early Intervention Check-in/ Check-out Social Skills Curricula We build our RP continuum in conjunction with our SWPBIS continuum. Just like SWPBIS, the skills learned in tier 1 of RP work lead to T2, and T3. Prevention & Skill Building Define and teach expectations Establish consequence system Collection and use of data Prevention & Skill Building Peace-keeping circles for: Morning meetings Social/emotional instruction Staff meetings www.midwestpbis.org

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“Authentic listening is an important way to show respect for others. When we really listen, we have a chance to enter into a deeper form of communicating.” Jim Knight

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