Restorative Practices Facilitators' Lived Experiences: Restorative Praxis in Community

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: Good Intentions? The Search for Equity, Agency, and Restoration in Education Policy (Table 5)

Abstract

Restorative Practices (RP) aims to shift from punitive-based disciplines to valuing relational-based approaches in education. RP Facilitators’ play a central role in supporting school campuses to adopt and implement RP. The objective of the session is to capture RP Facilitators’ lived-experiences supporting whole-school RP implementation. The presentation will showcase seven RP Facilitators’ efforts to implement RP, with a specific focus on ‘Labors’ that are central to their work as change agents. This study can offer insight into the nuances of initiating paradigmatic shifts and the types of support RP Facilitators need to promote and sustain RP; and in turn, help them support the education community to learn how to educate our children in ways that are equitable, humanizing, and restorative.

Authors

• Kerry H. Alexander, University of Texas at Austin
  Presenting Author

• Molly T. Wiebe, University of Texas at Austin
  Presenting Author

• Lorna Hermosura, University of Texas at Austin
  Presenting Author