Restorative Us Team


Our Restorative Us Team (PLUS) is a wonderful way to begin an RP journey within a school. It aims to build a shared literacy amongst staff through a pre-recorded and interactive Whole Staff CPD and to support an interested follow-on Restorative Us Team (from 4 to 10 staff members) in their commitment and implementation of Restorative Practice. The intention is to build internal capacity and enable the potential of a distributed leadership approach for sustainable implementation.


  • Are you looking to introduce or consolidate a basic understanding of the knowledge, skills and motivation of using Restorative Practice within your school community?




  • Are you seeking to grow an RP Team or resource an existing team within your school to develop their own restorative skills that enhances teaching and learning and reduces stress levels?




  • Do you see the value in moving beyond a 'train and hope' approach and instead, investing in a structured implementation programme that supports engagement and accountability for a group of RP champions, to plant the seeds for a long-term School Culture Partnership?

If you answered 'Yes' to the above, then our Restorative Us Team extractable is for you. The pre-recorded an interactive Staff CPD session offers opportunities to contextualise the 6 Restorative Principals within your school and then mentor, resource and measure the impact of an RP team on it's restorative journey. Scroll on down for more information.

Connect RP's Role in Empowering Your Team

1.Mentor the Journey


  • Orientation Meeting
  • 3 x Skills Development Cafés
  • Team Leader Partnerships
  • RP Outcomes and SIP meeting

2. Resource the Implementation


  • Staff CPD & Resources
  • Self-paced Course
  • Structured PLC
  • Box of Visual Resources
  • School Digital Portfolio
  • Emailed RP Nudges
  • Resourced RP Growth Plan

3. Measure Impact

Poster Presentation illustating the impact of the team's RP journey using: 


  • Mentimeter
  • An RP Win
  • RP Outcomes Survey ï»¿

What Is Your School's Role in Co-Creating a Restorative Us Team

Restorative Us Plus Team Process

BENEFITS

A structured approach with everything you need to support your school community to grow and develop a Restorative TEAM; building internal capacity, leadership and sustainability.

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Luttrellstown Community College
“The Restorative Practice initiatives that we have undertaken as a post-primary staff over the last number of years have helped forge and safeguard endless positive relationships throughout our school community. Connect RP has essentially given us a language and a structure to protect our value systems and to work authentically within a truly sustainable framework such as the Restorative Us Plus Package.

Every time Michelle from Connect RP engages with our staff or students it lifts their spirits immeasurably. It is hard to put a value on how important this is to the morale and wellbeing of all in our workplace. As school leaders, it is what we strive to achieve everyday ourselves.

Most significantly, the Connect RP programmes have inspired our own teachers and students to become RP champions; and as a consequence the philosophy has become embedded within our school culture. This has ultimately led to the creation of the kind of learning environment in which both our educators and our young students can flourish on a daily basis.

It is impossible to overstate how positive and nourishing an experience our RP journey has been for us to date. The solid foundations that this model provides for enjoyable and successful teaching and learning is what every new or established school craves. As a programme for continuous professional- and indeed, personal- development, I cannot recommend it highly enough.”

Daithí Ó Murchú, Deputy Principal, Luttrellstown Community College

John the Baptist Community School
"We engaged with Restorative Us Plus package in our school last year. Working with Michelle Stowe has been a wholly positive and uplifting experience. Her enthusiasm for restorative practice is contagious. The Restorative Me course that everyone on team has access to has been energising and transformative. It is encouraging us all to consider how we interact with others, in both our professional and personal lives. Michelle and her team are always professional, efficient, and helpful. We have just begun our restorative journey as a school and have now progressed on to the support of a whole school Connect RP Site Licence as we hope to continue being a school committed to the use of Restorative Practice."

Bree Anne Conheady, Team Leader, John the Baptist Community School

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Common Questions

  • Can the webinar and the Restorative Us be done independently of one another?

    Yes. They can exist independently if this would best meet the needs of the school but were designed to complement one another.

  • What follow-on resources do schools have access to following the webinar?

    Staff have access to a generic school account that offers two sets of resources – a student focussed Connection before Curriculum and a Living the 6 Principles of RP in Education. Both of these offer examples, templates, recommended resources and ideas explored within the webinar that may support the relational plan of any classroom and beyond.

  • Who should be on a Restorative Us Team?

    A team can be from 4-10 people. It is recommended that the team is made up of these interested or curious about developing their own practice and potentially promoting it within the school through modelling. Schools can use an existing structure such as a care or wellbeing team. Sometimes schools use an existing leadership team which can work well as there is often time to come together knitted into the timetable. But schools need to also remember that the emphasis here is on our own practice at this stage the leadership is through modelling. It can be helpful to have people from different range of experience and roles on a team, people who believe in and are willing to commit to developing their relational practice.

  • Who may be best placed to lead the team?

    Someone with the interest and time to lead is essential. I recommend that this is not a member of the senior leadership but someone who has more flexibility and time to connect with me and consistently prioritise the promotion and leadership of this team. Someone who has or is interested in actively cultivating  positive and warm relationships with staff is also key. 

  • What is the Bee RP Hive – when / where / how often?

    This is a space to come together, reflect and live the practices in community. It is an ideal way to promote accountability, especially as school life can be so busy. This happens at a school/team directed pace. It could be scheduled in a timetable if possible, at lunch time or after school – or indeed a mixture of all three. There are up to 14 30-40 min gathering outlined that the team leader can use to facilitate the sessions. They can take place face to face or online – the important thing is that people enjoy this space together – a cuppa and a biscuit would be two great additions to any gathering.