Restorative Practice Coaches

this year-long restorative practices cohort is the next step in your trauma-informed journey

Save the Date!

We’re excited to announce our 2024-2025 RPC Cohort dates!

  • Administrators Morning
    June 17, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

  • Cohort Teams
    June 17, 1 pm - 5 pm
    June 18 - 19, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

The extra bonus? All members of RPC cohort teams will receive copies of Joe Brummer's Building Trauma-Informed Restorative School.
Anndd… Joe’s newest book, Becoming a Trauma-Informed Restorative Educator releases the same week of our cohort meeting! There will be copies available for you to purchase and have signed by Joe right here onsite.

What are Restorative Practices?

Restorative Practices are specific skills and techniques that proactively build a stronger community to prevent problems from arising. We use dialogue as a way to move toward conflict in order to resolve and heal it. The restorative approach is ultimately the replacement for punishment in our classrooms and school. It is also the process for resolving staff conflict.


Teams who join the ESSDACK RPC Cohort will leave with distinct strategies that educators and families can use to increase learning and growth in behavioral and relational wellness. This wellness leads to increased academic success.

Teams will also develop a 12-month action plan centered around implementation with on-going support.

Using Restorative Practices creates:

  • safety

  • trust

  • community

  • a space for personal responsibility 

  • a space for relationship repairs

  • a space for forgiveness

  • a space for healing

  • a space for learning & growth

  • a discipline approach that uses actionable accountability to repair harm

The ESSDACK Resilience team has created a unique year-long cohort program specifically designed to support you and your building as you move along your trauma-informed journey. The program includes face-to-face training sessions throughout the summer and is anchored with the opportunity for daily, in-house expert conversations during the school year.

Joining the 2024 - 2025 cohort group will provide the opportunity to build a team of coaches and trainers informed and experienced in the five Restorative skills your building needs to be successful.


Your building-level team will work with ESSDACK consultants and national experts to develop locally-based plans to best deliver the critical Restorative skills, tools, and practices into the hands of your staff and students for implementation:

  • utilizing community, academic, and restorative circles to repair harm and create accountability

  • respecting agreements

  • utilizing restorative dialogue

  • responding to vs reacting to students, colleagues, and families


Restorative Practice Coaches is the next step in supporting your staff and students along their trauma-informed journey. Let the ESSDACK Restorative Practice Coaching Cohort help you along the way!

2023-2024 Connection Dates

  • June 17 is a morning of Leadership-Focus
    Focused on supporting and helping administrators dig into restorative practices, especially in the area of discipline, and how best to support their community in making the shift. A specific focus is helping administrators understand their role in clearing the path and providing resources for their restorative practices coaches.

  • June 17, 18, and 19
    Teams will come together in Hutchinson, Kansas to learn and practice RPC-specific skills.
    Cohort teams will kick off on the afternoon of June 17!

ESSDACK Restorative Practices Team