Restorative Practices

The fundamental belief of Restorative Practices is that human beings are happier and more cooperative and productive and more likely to make positive changes in behavior when those in positions of authority do things with them rather than to of for them.

In TVUSD, we are seeking to integrate Restorative Practices to:

• Continue to foster healthy relationships
• To provide an intentional focus on improving student, staff, family, and community relationships
• To develop our expertise around understanding why behavior occurred to teach how to prevent it from happening again
• To decrease behaviors of concern, interfering with instruction, to improve the academic outcomes for all students

Within Restorative Practices, 80% of the time is spent focusing on proactive, community and relationship building activities. The remaining time is focused on providing a supportive, student-centered approach to respond to situations which impede the learning of students.

Most importantly, we want to ensure that ALL TVUSD students, staff, family and community members feel safe, welcome, valued, heard, respected, and appreciated in our district.

We'd like to invite you to our next Family University workshop. November 17, 2022, The Empowerment Center (TEC) will be starting a six-session series on creating a restorative home environment. TEC provided a highly successful restorative parenting series last school year and are back by popular demand. As always, all Family University workshops are free. All registrants will receive a copy of the workshop materials and a recording of the presentation, following the workshop. Please click the icon below to see the flyer for this event. Scan the QR code at the bottom of this newsletter to register for Family University.

Over the next several years, we will be training staff members from all 28 sites and the district office to support our district with the integration of Restorative Practices. The purpose of this integration is provide a lens with which to ensure that we are engaging all voices within our community and working together with all of our educational partners to make decisions that are in the best interest of all TVUSD students. Click the links below for more information about Restorative Practices.

We are also seeking feedback as we plan workshops for Family University for the remainder of this school year. Please take a few minutes to share your perspective to help us as we plan these events. Your support and insight are greatly appreciated.