Agree clear expectations
Agree strong positive expectations and embed them across the school.
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Let values guide practices
Let values guide practices
Clearly state positive expectations
Clearly state positive expectations
For example:
- Avoid rigid behaviour expectations that do not cater for the diverse needs and abilities of ākonga.
- Provide a small number of positive values so they are easily brought to mind.
- Share values across the school and make them visible in all classrooms.
- Develop a shared understanding of what the values mean in practice by working with staff, students, whānau and the community.
- Reinforce and repeat positive values in daily interactions.
- Give examples of the values in practice using images, text and multimedia such as videos and images.
- Teach students how to enact school values.
- Acknowledge and celebrate positive examples.
Set a positive school culture
Set a positive school culture
Embed core values
Embed core values
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Respond using restorative approaches
Respond using restorative approaches
Restorative processes are sometimes perceived as soft approaches. Tapping into the teachable potential of unwanted events, prioritising obligations for repairing harm and building a community of care makes our responses stronger and sustainable, not weaker.
It is a layered approach to understanding what is shaping behaviour and involves collaborative sense-making.
Simple focus questions include:
- What happened?
- Who was affected and how?
- What obligations do the parties have?
For more information around planning conversations and meetings, see the Restore suggestion in the Respond in challenging situations strategy of this guide
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