By focusing on building and maintaining positive and respectful relationships across school communities, PB4L Restorative Practice give school staff best practice tools and techniques to maintain and restore relationships if things go wrong.PB4L Restorative Practice has four underlying principles:
The everyday, informal actions that place emphasis on relationships, respect, empathy, social responsibility and self-regulation. The Restorative Essentials are a relational approach to effective communication skills and Restorative Conversations. A relational approach is grounded in relational theory (Downie and Llewellyn, 2011) and aligns with the five key competencies of The New Zealand Curriculum. The Restorative Essentials supports teachers and adults within the school community to approach problems in a restorative way and equip staff with the skills needed to de-escalate situations successfully, enabling all staff to ‘keep the small things small’.
