San Francisco Peer Court RJ Best Practices

Restorative Justice Best Practices Survey

Peer Court supports the efforts of the San Francisco Unified School District to make response to discipline more "restorative" and less punitive. Therefore, we're collecting anecdotes, suggestions, and strategies already being used by teachers, counselors, support staff, administrators and others in the district.

If you currently work with students in an instructional or disciplinary setting, we want to know what strategies, creative solutions, and best practices you employ. The information you provide will be shared with others attempting to provide restorative alternatives for students, victims, families and community members.

Please tell us how you:

1. create a positive environment that discourages misbehavior, crime, etc.

2. use alternatives to reduce suspensions and arrests

3. resolve conflicts both proactively and after they occur

4. restore your school community following harmful incidents

5. address the needs of victims and community members

6. give kids a chance to learn constructively from their mistakes.

RJ Best Practices Survey
Your Name
Your Title
Your School / Department
Your Email
1. Positve Environment - Please describe community-building activities or other strategies you use to create an environment in your school or class that encourages pro-social behavior and discourages harmful or illegal actions:
2. Suspension Alternatives - Please describe actions you take or strategies you employ as an alternative to school suspension:
3. Conflict Prevention - Please describe actions you take or strategies you employ to PREVENT conflicts from escalating to violence or harmful incidents:
4. Conflict Resolution - Please describe actions you take or strategies you employ to RESOLVE conflicts or violence in a positive way:
5. Victim Restoration - Following harmful or criminal incidents, what strategies or techniques do you employ to repair harm caused to direct victims?
6. Community Restoration - Following harmful or criminal incidents, what strategies or actions do you employ to restore the school community, including indirect victims?
7. Learning Opportunity - please describe techniques or actions you employ to teach youth about the harm caused by their actions and how to avoid such mistakes in the future:
8. Anything Else? - please tell us any other techniques, strategies, stories, or other information about restorative approaches you have used and how they may be employed by others: