Restorative Practices Coaches Online
support for your cohort's next-steps journey back at home
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. This will include face to face training sessions throughout the summer and anchored with the opportunity for daily, in-house expert conversations during the school year, supported by the resources inside this website.
By joining the 2023 cohort group, you now have built a team of coaches/trainers who are informed and experienced in the five restorative skills your organization needs to be successful. And now you can take the included resources and supports back to trains and support other colleagues inside your organization
Working with the ESSDACK consultants and the included information here, you'll 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
- respecting agreements
- utilizing restorative dialogue
- responding to vs reacting to students, colleagues, and families
We are so excited for your next step as a Restorative Practice Coach! Let the ESSDACK Restorative Practice Coaching Cohort help you along the way!
Your Instructor
Carmen Zeisler, Joe Brummer, and Ginger Lewman are partnering to build the support you and your school need in order to dig into Restorative Justice and the restorative practices. This is the next step in your trauma informed journey.
Carmen Zeisler is the Director of the ESSDACK Learning Centers, an Educational Consultant/Coach, and a co-founding member of the ESSDACK Resilience Team. In Learning Centers, she has been instrumental in leading a Redesign process through Project-Based Learning.
In schools, Carmen loves collaborating with teachers on Trauma-Informed practices and she leads The Restorative Justice in Schools effort on the ESSDACK Resilience Team. Her other passion as a Consultant and Coach is supporting teachers to build a strong reading culture in their classroom. One of her favorite ways to do this is to use picture books with science and social studies to make these content areas come alive for students!
Joe Brummer is a trauma-survivor having lived through early exposure to violence, child abuse and neglect, and 2 separate violent anti-LGBTQ hate crimes a decade apart. Joe has turned his healing journey into a career in peacebuilding, restorative justice, and consulting in trauma-informed education. After years of working in the mental health training field, nonprofits, and community mediation, Joe started his consulting business in January 2015. He currently supports schools and youth justice institutions internationally in using a trauma-informed restorative lens to create supportive human centered environments.
Ginger Lewman is a national consultant & keynote speaker with ESSDACK, a non-profit education service center based in Hutchinson Kansas. She inspires and helps all levels of educators figure out the in’s and out’s of teaching and learning. Some of her specialty topics:
- Redesigning schools & learning environments
- Building Resilience in staff & students (self-care and co-care)
- Restorative Practices in Education
- Project/Problem/Passion Based Learning
- technology integration
- working with gifted and high-ability learners
Ginger is deeply passionate about helping educators rethink and revision what teaching and learning can be in today’s world.
Our team is honored to work with you!