Teacher Voice: As the pandemic rages, more students are struggling with trauma

Teacher Voice: As the pandemic rages, more students are struggling with trauma

The New York State Center for School Safety

Providing support to schools, families, and communities

What is School Climate?

Creating Positive School Climate

Highlighted Strategies

National Resources

Research & Practice Briefs

Measuring School Climate

Measuring School Climate

NYSED's Plan for School Climate

Restorative Practices

Social Emotional Learning

Trauma Informed Schools

School Climate

The attitude or collective mood of the people in the school particularly as it relates to their sense of safety and acceptance. School Climate is an overarching experience or “feel” of the school. It is a critical determinant of the ability of people in the school to focus on the tasks of teaching and learning.

Restorative Practices

8 Tips for Schools Interested in Restorative Justice
by Fania E. Davis

Restorative Justice: A Different Approach to Discipline

Restorative Practices: Fostering Healthy Relationships & Promoting Positive Discipline in Schools A Guide for Educators

Restorative Justice.com- a website dedicated to establishing caring relationships through the implementation of a Culture of Care in schools, with the goal of helping ethnically diverse students to flourish.

Restorative Justice in a Denver, Colorado School

by Dr. Tom Cavanagh, Dr. Patricia Vigil, Estrellita Garcia

Teaching Restorative Practices with Classroom Circles by the Amos Clifford, Center for Restorative Process Developed for San Francisco Unified School District

Restorative Circles

Restorative Circles: Creating a Safe Environment for Students to Reflect Created by Edutopia (February 2018)

Let's Talk RP Part 1- It's Circle Time

Let’s Talk Restorative Practices Part I: It’s Circle Time created by Lessons for SEL (April 2020)

A Restorative Approach to Discipline

A Restorative Approach to Discipline Office of Social & Emotional Learning at Chicago Public Schools (July 2014)

Let's Talk RP Part 2-So Your Want a Circ

Let’s Talk Restorative Practices Part II: So You Want a Circle

created by Lessons for SEL (April 2020)