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After reading Chapter 1, reflect on the following questions:1. What your goals or purpose for joining this book study? I'm excited to learn some new ways to improve behavior and strengthen class community! 2. Which of the restorative practices and beliefs are in place in your classroom, school, or district? Morning meeting, behavior conferences (individual and peer), Peace Keepers, class discussions (working on circle talks!)3. Why might the rewards and punishment approach be problematic? It can only work for so long, and it doesn't encourage students to make positive choices when no one's watching; behavior becomes dependent on rewards/punishments. We have to practice and model the behavior we strive for! 

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After reading Chapter 1, reflect on the following questions:1. What your goals or purpose for joining this book study? I'm excited to learn some new ways to improve behavior and strengthen class community! 2. Which of the restorative practices and beliefs are in place in your classroom, school, or district? Morning meeting, behavior conferences (individual and peer), Peace Keepers, class discussions (working on circle talks!)3. Why might the rewards and punishment approach be problematic? It can only work for so long, and it doesn't encourage students to make positive choices when no one's watching; behavior becomes dependent on rewards/punishments. We have to practice and model the behavior we strive for! 

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1.  After our first PD day we had as a school and first hearing about this book and the restorative practice approach, I was immediately intrigued and wanted to learn more! My main reason for joining this book study is to strengthen my classroom management skills through restorative practice and create a collaborative and caring classroom environment. This is my first year of teaching and I want to learn as much as I can to improve my practice and be someone my kiddos can rely on!

2.  Restorative practices I have implemented in my room so far this year are as follows:
-Morning meetings
-Check In/Check Out
-One-on-one conferences with students
-Getting to know my students on an academic and personal level (remembering their interests, attending events both in school and
my kiddos' extracurricular activities
-Formative assessment

3.  The reward/punishment method could lead to potential problems down the road due to students' loss of interest in the extrinsic rewards being allotted in school. Once students lose interest in the rewards being offered, the value of such awards is forced to increase to meet the desires of students. As time passes, the value of rewards students believe they deserve for their good behavior soon becomes unattainable and students are left without a lesson they can learn from. I have noticed this quite a bit with my class when after they receive a reward for positive behavior! The reward they earned the day prior quickly loses its value after being received by the class or an individual in the class, and as a result their expectations become higher to maintain the same behavior in class. (my bank account soon learned this lesson as well!)

According to the author, punishment has a tendency to leave students feeling angry and humiliated if received publicly and can very quickly escalate to a power struggle between the teacher and student. Enforcing punishments in the classroom, in turn, creates a distance between students and teachers that is very difficult to minimize once the damage has been done. For example, when I was in elementary school, all of my teachers used a color chart to display behavior. I still to this day remember the feeling of humiliation when I was moved from green to yellow for asking my friend to borrow a pencil. I never want my students to feel the way I did when I was younger and have learn from my past teachers' mistakes!

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1.  My goal for this book study is to learn more about restorative practices and how to incorporate them into the early childhood classroom.

2.  Restorative Practices in my room:
-Morning Meetings
-Conferencing with Students
-Showing that I care
-Second Step (If that counts...)

3. The rewards and punishments approach can be very problematic. Students are behaving for extrinsic reasons rather than intrinsic ones. When people work for extrinsic motivation, they are just working toward a goal to avoid punishment or gain a reward. If they were to work for intrinsic motivation, there would be a change in the child, which would make them want to do the right thing for self satisfaction and knowing that they are doing the right thing. When just earning rewards, they aren't really gaining meaning behind what they are doing.

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1. My goal for this book study is to learn more about restorative practices and how I can implement them in the school to help our students become problem solvers.
2. Individual conferences to address problematic behavior. Conferencing with small groups of students to address problems among a few.
3. The trouble with rewards and punishments are that they do not teach or model the behaviors that we want to see in classrooms. Usually, the same students are the ones being rewarded or punished. It also does not help with teaching extrinsic motivation. I really like on page 7 where it says "Rewards suggest that people are being compensated for engaging in an unpleasant obligation."

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1.  My goal for joining this book study is to learn about restorative practices and how they can help me improve behavior in my classroom.
2.  The restorative practices used in my classroom are:  Morning Meetings, conferencing with students,facilitating discussions with students...to let them "talk it out".  I try to give every student a voice and to bring behavior back to "being respectful" to others.  I try to build positive relationships with my students, making students responsible members of small groups.
3.  Rewards and punishments don't work.  Page 6 states, "They may result in short-term changes, but in reality they promote compliance and little else".  I completely agree with this.  Although, rewards and consequences are found in my classroom as well as the school.  I think that teachers in general don't know of a better way to get students to behave.  I like how the book stresses the importance of making sure the students reflect on how their behavior affects others. This will help them build the relationships which in turn will make it more difficult for students to repeat the behaviors because they know they are surrounded by people (teacher and peers) who care about them and their academic future.

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1. Goals for this Book Study
Until the recent PD on restorative practices, I did not know what they were. I am very curious to learn more about them and learn how to better implement them in the classroom. The restorative practice movement makes sense and I am excited to learn how we can make this shift in our school!
2. Restorative Practices/Beliefs in Place
-Morning Meeting
-Private/quiet talks to discuss behavior choice/s and determine a solution together
-Philosophy on page 4: "...it's harder for students to act defiantly or disrespectfully towards adults who clearly care about them and their future." --> we are a family and we respect and care for one another
3. Rewards and Punishments Approach
Rewards and consequences don't necessarily teach students the 'whys' behind the behaviors; their effect is more short term and is not necessarily internalized and rationalized by the student. They are an attempt to control student behaviors rather than teach them how to "engage in productive learning," as the books states on page 7.  The analogy on page 6 makes a lot of sense - we don't leave the "acquisition of reading or mathematics instruction to chance; we engage in explicit, systematic, and intentional instruction to ensure that learners progress academically." When we encourage students to work for a reward or work to avoid a consequence or punishment, they are not fully understanding the effects of their behavior (on themselves and on others).

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1. My goal for this book study is to increase my knowledge on restorative practices so that i will be better able to implement the strategies in my classroom.
2. Currently we participate in:
a. Individualized conferences where students are listened to and given the opportunity to speak about
different issues.
b. 3rd Grade "Family" talk
c. Check in-Check Out
3. Rewards vs Punishment
While I do understand what the research findings that were reported on this topic based on the reports in this book, I am sill reflecting on the thought that" ....the number or value of the rewards offered to them must be increase if they are to remain on task" .

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1.  My goal for this book study is to learn about what restorative practices are and how they can improve behavior in our school as well as my classroom.
2.  The restorative practices used in my classroom are: Morning Meetings and conferencing with students.
3.  The rewards and punishments approach is problematic because they control student's behaviors and don't teach students how to problem solve or develop empathy for others.  Rewards are short term and need to be increased to have any future effect.  Punishments are long term and leave children with the notion that exerting power over others gets them what they want.

** I grew up with traditional discipline. Why did those practices work for so long and now studies show that it doesn't work? What has changed?

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1. Goals for the book study
I am interested in finding out what restorative practices  are and how I can implement them in the classroom.
2. Practices/Beliefs in place
Morning meetings
Discuss with children who have an issue with each other.
We use the term family for our class and grade.
3.  Rewards/punishment
Reading the book it shows how the children will learn how to comply but not learn on how to control their behavior.  I am intrigued to find out how exactly this program will work.

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1. Goals for this book study:
I was interested in learning more about restorative practices. I am hoping that I like the practices and that they are feasible to implement within my classroom. I am also hoping to learn some practices that I think will help specifically with one of my students I have this year.
2.  Practices/Beliefs already in place:
-Morning Meetings/Circles to create a sense of family
-Individual conferences to address problematic behaviors

-Check In/Check Out

3. Rewards and Punishment:
On page 7, the book discusses how rewards and punishments try to control behavior rather than teach them. I think this is one of the biggest problems that a lot of our challenging students have is that they don't understand why their problematic behavior is problematic. We have taught them to focus on the reward or the consequence. As a result, this causes the students to learn to look out for themselves rather than understanding the effect their behaviors have on their peers. We need to be teaching them how to resolve disagreements and take ownership rather than just work for a reward or to avoid the consequence.

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1. What your goals or purpose for joining this book study?

My goal for this book study is to learn more about restorative practices and how I can better incorporate them into my classroom.

2. Which of the restorative practices and beliefs are in place in your classroom, school, or district?

-Morning Meetings

-Classroom Family/1st grade family

-PBIS Check In/Check Out program

-Conferencing with individual students

3. Why might the rewards and punishment approach be problematic?

The rewards and punishment approach might be problematic, because it does not teach the students. This approach will not result in long term changes in behaviors, because the students are not learning how to transform their behaviors when they are rewarded or punished.

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1. My goal for this book study is to start building an awareness with teacher leaders about restorative practices so we can shift our culture at PHES.
2. I have started holding informal circles and victim-offender dialogue in my office when conflict arises. Actually, today was the first day that I did not find success as I tried to force a resolution before the student was ready. I see SMCPS moving towards restorative practices as the state makes more strict guidelines on out of school and in school suspensions'. I am also so delighted when I see Morning Meetings in your classrooms because they have such a positive impact on our students.
3. The rewards and punishment approach does not solve problems. It just creates a system where kids can avoid reaching agreements or working together. I firmly believe in PBIS, but I also think we need to rethink how we teach kids certain procedures such as managing conflict and understanding others.

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After reading Chapter 1, reflect on the following questions:
1. What your goals or purpose for joining this book study?
2. Which of the restorative practices and beliefs are in place in your classroom, school, or district?
3. Why might the rewards and punishment approach be problematic?

Please feel free to include any questions or ah-ha moments!