Classroom Management Is About Restorative Discipline

1. Define the term “restorative discipline” in your own words and provide three concrete examples of how restorative discipline might be implemented within your classroom and school. Use the authors’ “five goals” provided on page 134 to guide your response.
    
2. How is “restorative discipline” different from “punitive discipline”?
    
3. Think about the punitive discipline practices enacted in classrooms where you have been a teacher or a student.  What connections can you make to outcomes in terms of student success? 
    
4. What are some ways teachers might collaborate to create the sort of “school community” the authors describe as  essential to establishing restorative discipline practices school-wide?
    
5. Review and discuss the “affective statements” and “affective questions” on pages 139 and 141. What are your overall impressions of these statements and questions?  Be specific. What might be some barriers to facilitating these statements and questions with students? How could you address and work through these challenges?
    
6. How might “circle processes” be normalized in your school/classroom context(s)? Is this process applicable to your school context? Why/why not? What sort of changes need to be, or were made, to make circle processes a reality?