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If staffing is a revolving door at your workplace, consider this week’s podcast on how to keep staff engaged with restorative leadership. We reflect on the research recommendation from the Rand Corporation: ”Leaders who have not made adult relationships a priority could consider transferring the strategies they use to build positive student-staff relationships to focus on adults.“

1:30 “staffing problems are misunderstood”

2:33 “it’s not about the money”

3:54 “a supply teacher who kept coming back to the same school”

6:20 “micro level watch how you speak with staff”

7:03 “macro level stop moving principals around so much”

9:10 “small things you can do to build relationships”

11:35 “intentionally block time every day to build connections with adults in your workplace”

12:20 “do for adults what you’d do for students”

Restoring Teacher and Principal Well-Being Is an Essential Step for Rebuilding Schools :Findings from the State of the American Teacher and State of the American Principal Surveys

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The biggest source of burnout in the workplace is, according to Gallup, “unfair treatment at work.” Schools are no exception and staff are leaving in droves. In our new season, we will be focusing on restorative leadership and engagement…of adults. This week’s podcast features a story from Shelley where the leadership was NOT restorative and how it could have been by using a fair process.

1:47 “burnout caused by unfair treatment at work”

3:50 “management/leadership style matters”

4:48 “Shelley shares an example of unfair treatment from her work”

7:58 “here’s what a restorative leader might have done”

10:58 “how do leaders manage change restoratively”

13:04 “lead from where you stand”

13:48 “lead with a fair process”

16:13 “ask questions, listen to the answers and lead from where you stand”

Gallup article “The World’s workplace is broken—Here’s how to fix it”

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Here’s another episode of Summer Shorts on CircleForum where we’re telling stories about situations where things did not go well or things weren’t working right. In a conversation earlier this year with Perry Smith from Abbotsford Schools in BC, we talk about what it takes to make a change in schools.

:37 “need the resources for schools according to the needs at the school”

2:17 “system leaders don’t get what’s happening at the schools’

3:54 “the symmetry of learning for students AND for adults is key”

5:32. “Question the school structures”

6:02 “ ask ‘who is this structure serving?’”

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Summer Shorts on CircleForum are stories where things did not go well and how that changed our practice.  In this podcast, we go back to a story we heard earlier this year from Brooke Monks, an experienced teacher who was very apprehensive about doing her first circle until…Steve coached her through it.

:50  “Loved the circle but lots of panic”

1:16. “even did student presentations in the circle”

1:47 “students asked for another circle”

2:03 “feedback from students”

3:54 “quiet students speak up in circle”

4:32  “how do you feel when someone interrupts you or talks over you?”

4:55  “it feels like what I’m saying doesn’t matter”

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Restorative practices is not therapy yet here’s a story about how the two can work together. ummer Short on Circle Forum are stories where our practice changed because something restorative did not work out well.  This eeek Stan tells a story about how he had to call in an expert facilitator and a grief counsellor to deal with the impact of a student’s tragic death.

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Teens as teachers? You betcha. Adults can learn a lot from teen. It does take asking the right questions and takes really listening. Shelley tells a story of how initiating restorative practices in a Grade 7 & 8 classroom backfired until she backed up and asked what’s happening now. Summer Short on Circle Forum are stories where our practice changed because something restorative did not work out well.

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