Restorative Practice Coaches

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

We’re excited to announce our 2025-2026 RPC Cohort dates! June 9 - 11, 2025
in Hutchinson Kansas

What you get for your team of three coaches and one administrator (the admin is FREE):

  • 3 full days of in-person training

  • 4 half-days of planning (virtual)

  • 3 PLC connections throughout the year (virtual)

  • and unlimited personalized coaching!

All for $3600! (if you have a larger team, just let us know and we can help make that happen!)

Plan to learn the tools and walk away with a multi-level plan to implement back at home.

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 will be 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

  • building and using quality respect agreements

  • utilizing restorative dialogue

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

  • learn, build, and practice one of the biggest and most crucial parts of restorative practices: community-building and focus circles.


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!

2025-2026 Cohort Connection Dates

  • We'll spend three days together June 9-11 in Hutchinson, Kansas where the teams will come together to learn and practice the skills.

  • And then on July 10, 17, 24, 31, your team will be back at home, and we will be Zooming together to support the plan-building phase to develop a school-wide professional learning plan. This plan will be finished in time to be implemented throughout the 2025-26 school year.

  • We will also gather on Zoom three more times throughout the school in a PLC to celebrate, support, cross-team share, and answer specific questions about the teams’ boots-on-the-ground implementation.

  • And of course, we will be available for personalized conversations as well.

If you’re looking for the next step in TOOLS to support your staff and students along their trauma-informed journey and would appreciate daily in-house expert support, then the Restorative Practices Coaching Cohort is for you! 

ESSDACK Restorative Practices Team