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From YouTube: Restorative Practices Webinar
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The first in a series of webinars on Equity hosted by the Burlington School District, Introduction to Restorative Practices provides viewers with an overview of what restorative practices are and how they are implemented in the district. To learn more, please visit BSD's Office of Equity at https://www.bsdvt.org/district/diversity-and-equity/district-office-of-equity/. To learn more about the Equity webinar series, please visit https://www.bsdvt.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=10733&action=edit.
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All
right
everybody,
so
it's
705
we're
going
to
go
ahead
and
get
started
with
our
presentation.
Thank
you
all!
I'm
so
excited
to
see
all
of
your
faces
and
to
welcome
you
to
our
introduction
to
restorative
practice.
In
the
burlington
school
district
tonight
my
name
is
virginia
litchfield
and
I
am
the
restorative
city
and
restorative
practice.
Integration,
intern
and
my
internship
is
shared
between
the
burlington
school
district
and
the
burlington
community
justice
center.
So
first
of
all,
we
just
want
to
say:
welcome.
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B
E
F
G
H
J
C
K
C
B
F
District
just
sparks
not
mister,
so
as
we
think
about
restorative
practices
in
the
school
district.
We've
been
doing
this
work
for
about
seven
years
now,
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
really
wanted
to
accomplish,
as
we
think
about
restorative
practices
in
the
district,
was
to
get
rid
of
punitive
practices
and
the
way
we
look
at
student
discipline.
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So
about
seven
years
ago.
I
was
tasked
with
looking
at
other
avenues
and
other
ways
that
our
school
district
could
look
at
student
behavior
student
discipline
in
a
more
restorative
manner,
and
at
that
time
I
started
consulting
with
lisa
bettinger
and
some
of
our
other
consultants
and
folks
that
were
doing
restorative
practices
in
the
district.
F
So
as
we
think
about
the
work
and
fast
forward
to
where
we
are
now,
we
are
in
a
place
where
we
have
restorative
practices,
teams
in
all
of
our
schools,
and
we
are
having
webinars
in
meetings
like
this,
where
we
are
really
trying
to
incorporate
student
voice,
but
not
only
student
voice,
also
bringing
in
the
community
to
our
work.
One
of
the
things
that
I've
always
believed
is
that
a
school
should
not
be
in
the
business
of
punishing
students
and
kicking
kids
out.
F
One
of
the
things
we
really
want
to
try
to
work
more
diligently
at
is
incorporating
student
voice,
but
as
we
think
about
what
that
means,
it
is
not
just
student
voice.
It
is
also
active
participation
and
involvement
of
students,
not
only
in
webinars,
but
also
in
the
decision
making
that
we
as
adults
tend
to
make
for
students
as
we
look
forward
to
working
with
students
in
our
district.
F
One
of
the
things
I
really
want
to
see
us
do
is
finding
more
ways
and
opportunities
of
including
students
in
the
decision
processes
and
also
holding
us
as
adults
responsible
for
some
of
the
things
that
we
do
and
again.
I
would
like
to
thank
the
organizers
of
this
and
welcome
everybody
to
this
evening's
webinar.
B
Thank
you
sparks,
so
the
next
thing
we're
going
to
do
is
just
go
over
the
goals
of
restorative
practice.
In
burlington,
we
have
we've,
boiled
it
down
to
three
goals
of
restorative
practice
and
the
first
one
is
to
build
just
an
equitable
learning
spaces.
So
how
are
we
putting
practices
into
place
to
make
sure
that
we're
increasing
safety
and
belonging
for
all
of
our
students,
in
particularly
our
bipark
students
or
students
who
belong
to
marginalized
identities?
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The
second
thing
that
we're
trying
to
do
is
nurture
relationships.
So
how
can
we
put
relationships
at
the
center
of
absolutely
everything
we
do
and
every
time
we
come
up
with
a
solution?
How
can
we
make
sure
that
we're
nurturing
relationships
in
that
solution,
and
the
third
thing
that
we
want
to
do?
Is
we
want
to
repair
harm
and
transform
conflict?
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B
He
did
some
research
with
some
uvm
students
at
edmonds
elementary
around
the
impact
that
circles
have
had
in
their
classroom,
and
so
we
found
this
particularly
relevant
for
tonight
because
we're
going
to
use
a
circle
practice
and
what
you're
about
to
see
is
a
collection
of
interviews
from
students
in
megan,
fitzpatrick's
class
and
so
we'll
have
josh
bring
up
that
video
for
us.
So
we
can
watch
it
it's
about
five
minutes
long
and
then,
after
that,
we're
going
to
go
into
our
breakout
groups
and
that's
the
piece
where
we
will
ask
you
to
participate
tonight.
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L
L
I
like
this
classroom
better
than
the
last
classroom,
because
in
our
last
classroom
we
went
through
circles
and
I
wasn't
as
calm.
I
learned
that
I
could
actually
speak
really
loud
and
it
makes
me
feel
more
confident
and
for
others,
probably
I've
learned
more
about
others
like
where
they're
from
and
stuff
like
that
and
in
the
classroom.
It
feels
like
a
circle
feels
like
that
people
can
like
cheer
you
up
when
you're
like
sad
but
outside
the
circle.
It
doesn't
really
like,
like
somewhere
else
rather
than
our
classroom.
L
L
Calm
around
each
other,
I
think,
maybe
because
last
year
we
didn't
do
circles
and
it
just
was
kind
of
jumbled
up
and
it
and
without
and
without
circles
it
was
cut.
It
was
kind
of
hard
not
to
like,
and
then
people
didn't
know
what
you
were
feeling
inside.
So
people
wouldn't
like
give
you
space
and
stuff,
and
I
think
this
year
that's
changed
and
a
lot
of
people
understand
what
you're
feeling
and
I
think
it
really
helps
I'm
in
circle.
L
M
So
day-to-day
impact
of
using
restorative
practices
there's
a
few
things
personally,
as
a
teacher,
it's
like
my
job
has
just
gotten
easier.
I
don't
have
you
know.
I
think
I've
always
worked
really
hard
to
build
relationships
with
my
students,
but
that
puts
a
lot
of
pressure
on
me
as
the
person
who
has
all
of
those
relationships.
M
The
shift
is
that
the
group
the
kids
now
have
developed
you
know
relationships
trusting
relationships
with
one
another
in
addition
to
with
me,
so
it
really
is
almost
like
a
shared
responsibility.
So
I
don't
have
this
kind
of
overwhelming
job
of
sort
of
taking
care
of
everybody.
We
all
now
can
take
care
of
each
other,
and
so
so
personally,
as
the
adult
in
the
room.
That
really
does
make
my
life
a
lot
easier
and
you
know
for
them
like
we
don't
really
have
behavior
issues,
we
don't
have
timeouts.
M
B
B
If
the
tech
works
out
right
and
nobody
drops
off
in
the
middle,
so
just
bear
with
us
for
a
second
while
we
while
we
do
that
and
a
special
thanks
to
john
from
uvm
and
all
the
people
who
put
that
video
together,
they
did
a
really
lovely
job
and
to
megan
fitzpatrick's
class
for
allowing
them
in
to
do
those
interviews,
because
it's
pretty
powerful,
as
you
can
see
and
josh.
Just
let
us
know
when
you're.