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Restorative practices implementation

Restorative Practices can transform school culture, empower educators, and promote student success.

But a training alone isn’t going to get you there!

Good implementation entails:

defining a restorative practice mindset

aligning with current teaching & intervention practices

integrating with discipline procedures

baking practices into existing routines

measuring impact

and most importantly.. getting people engaged

Few districts are equipped to implement well. That’s where we can help.

We’ll help you weave restorative practices into:

  • Culture & Climate Procedures

  • MTSS/PBIS

  • Family Engagement

  • Trauma Informed Practices

  • Behavioral Interventions

HERE'S HOW:

Collaborative Assessment

Goal-Setting & implementation Design

Top-rated restorative practice Trainings

on-site & virtual Coaching

“Restorative practices require muscle building in order to become routine. Arliss Prass knows how to build that muscle. Arliss is an expert in community building, ensuring the right questions are asked to produce the right reflection. She enables the establishment of relational accountability through shared structures that allow for monitoring, analysis, and planning toward a desired future state.”

— K. Bishop

About Us

We have spent our careers turning schools around using a combination of strategic programming and practices. We love partnering with school leaders to create peaceful, caring, and engaged communities.

Arliss Prass

Arliss has a deep passion and dedication for creating equity in education. She has an unwavering belief that all children can be successful and it’s our responsibility as professionals and caregivers to unlock the talent that is inherent in every child. In order to do so, we must investigate and interrogate our current systems and structures and we must reimagine and create nimble ecosystems to not only educate but empower our young minds. The work of dramatically impacting the lives of our nation’s future is only successful through collaboration and Arliss is here to support your organization in this process.

Karen Salama McCain

Karen believes that schools with healthy adult and student culture are the best environments for working and learning. Deliberate methods for engagement, clear practice, high support and accountability are magical in creating outstanding schools. As a leader in k-12 education and residential programs for children with behavioral health challenges in Philadelphia, she’s helped create impactful systems and interventions. She also has a myriad of lessons learned that honed them. Karen is an Egyptian-Irish first generation American with a multiracial family of her own; diversity, fair-play, and communication have always been cornerstones in her life.  She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.

“Karen always has a plan, accompanying resources, and lots of opportunities for practice, but she’s also flexible and adapts to our needs in the moment. I always feel better after working with her!”

— Kansas Principal

Client Testimonials

  • “Restorative practices require muscle building in order to become routine. Arliss Prass knows how to build that muscle. Arliss is an expert in community building, ensuring the right questions are asked to produce the right reflection. She enables the establishment of relational accountability through shared structures that allow for monitoring, analysis, and planning toward a desired future state.”

    — Kenan Bishop, Co-Founder & K-12 Lead of Rethinc

  • Karen is an incredible coach and partner to our school leadership team! She always seems to know exactly what support we're looking for before we do, and she takes everything to a deeper more intentional level.

    -Terry Manning, Principal, Wichita Public Schools

  • “Karen trains and coaches on restorative practices that are actually applicable and relevant to the work teachers are doing. I actually take her coaching lessons to other schools to help THEM build restorative practices.”

    — Kansas Instructional Leader

  • “Arliss’ super power is that she can always see straight to the core of the issue. She doesn’t sugar coat or spend time putting band-aids on short-term solutions. Instead Arliss hones in on the heart of the matter and then focuses on your heart as the first step. She is tough and clear. While never losing warmth and love. She’s one of the best listeners you’ll ever meet. I’m so thankful for my time with Arliss. Everyone deserves a coach like her.”

    — Educational Leader

  • “I loved learning from Karen. She was a great facilitator who modeled and provided many collaboration opportunities. The training was informative, engaging and motivating. I am so eager to begin implementing what I learned both professionally and personally. This is the best training I’ve attended in a very long time.”

    — California Training Participant

  • “Arliss Prass is one of the most thoughtful creators of culture I know. She operates with such intentionality and purpose that you forget the challenges you are facing because she has them handled. If you are looking for someone to help transform your culture, you are in for top notch support working with her.”

    — David Hardy, Jr., CEO & Co-Founder of Made by Change

  • “The best part of these sessions is the ability to take tangible activities back to my classroom and department tomorrow. I enjoyed the amount of modeling and practice that took place. We were doing circles and practicing the methodology.”

    — Kansas Teacher

  • Over the last two years Arliss has coached 11 school leaders for us, from teacher leaders to regional superintendents. She has also co-facilitated cohort training with me. Her performance as both a coach and a facilitator have been excellent, as additionally evidenced by our client surveys. She received no constructive and plenty of positive feedback in the open-ended answers including, “I really appreciate how Arliss pushes me to dig deeper.” I would highly recommend her as a coach and facilitator to any client.

    - Matt Taylor, CEO, The Noble Story Group

  • “I have learned so much from Karen’s no-nonsense, empathic, strategic style. Much of what I did with my staff was based on her modeling.”

    — Philadelphia Counseling Leader

  • Arliss trained our leaders in a year-long learning arc for restorative practices. She is a skilled facilitator and gives practice tips of how to implement the structures in your classrooms and practices across your district. She developed protocols to support leaders to be consistently looking at the cultural data and what it was telling them about places to celebrate and structures that were not yielding the desired outcome. She does not shy away from conversations about equity and who is benefitting or being damaged by historical systems. I most appreciated the way she wants to determine how to implement the practices within our context versus providing a product that may not meet our needs.

    -Dr. LaKimbre Brown, Chief of Networks

  • “Karen always has a plan, accompanying resources, and lots of opportunities for practice, but she’s also flexible and adapts to our needs in the moment. I always feel better after working with her!”

    — Kansas Principal