Specific to Schools

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Rudy consults with schools throughout Dane County, including Madison Metropolitan School District, Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, Stoughton and Deforest School Districts.

 

• Developing progressive and restorative discipline policy and practices

• Creating tiered practices within a progressive and restorative approach

• Creating alternatives to exclusionary discipline

• Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline

• Shifting adult mindsets: Beliefs, values, and action

• Developing curricular resources to include multicultural and multiracial identities and histories

• Using Circles in the classroom to support the following:

  • Learning concepts and skills

  • Supporting ways of working

  • Promoting cross-cultural awareness and understanding

  • Responding to harm and wrong-doing

  • Restoring well-being following critical incidents, including racism and discrimination

• Using Circles for specific meeting processes (e.g., staff meetings, re-entry from suspension, re-engagement from long-term absence, IEP meeting, parent-teacher conferences, etc.)

• Promoting self care and secondary trauma strategies for staff

• Leading mindfulness practice

• Developing groups