Restorative practices outcomes follow a slow trajectory: quick low-level successes after training, high-level success in three to five years or more¶

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q1 i? The article asserts that after training, schools may see quick low-level successes such as stronger relationships and less conflict, while high-level success such as improved behavior, academic growth, and cultural shifts takes three to five years or more. → Trout 2021

Evidence¶

Trout 2021¶

Trout, L. (2021). The toolkit before the toolkit: Centering adaptive and relational elements of restorative practices for implementation success. [Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd]. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED615970

q1 · i? · theoretical · r1

Author's practitioner assertion in the conclusion about the implementation timeline for restorative practices; no empirical data are reported for the three-to-five-year estimate. Low-level successes named include stronger interpersonal relationships, higher social and emotional learning skills, and less conflict.

"However, high-level success, such as improved behavior, academic growth, and cultural shifts, will take three to five years or more and will be achieved only with quality implementation and constant practice."

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Related Claims¶

• Implementing restorative justice in schools requires staff time, buy-in, training, and resources beyond traditional sanctions, with full climate shifts estimated to take three to five years — related (a different source reaching a similar timeline)
• Technical restorative practices implementation falls short when the adaptive components of values, mindsets, and beliefs have not shifted — related
• Time, funding, competing priorities, culture change, resistance, measurement gaps, and sustainability are the main challenges to implementing RJ in schools — related
• Coherence with preexisting initiatives made relationship-centered change more readily embraced — related
• Experts report reduced suspensions and expulsions and improved school climate as RJ implementation successes — related
• Schools implementing restorative justice report decreases in exclusionary discipline such as suspensions and expulsions — related