A HAMILTON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN HIGH PUBLICATION
FALL 2022
Vol. 16 Issue 1
Learning at HD ~ Restorative Justice in Education At HDCH, we seek to resolve conflicts and problems through a Restorative Justice in Education process, which involves setting high expectations and providing high support to live into those expectations. Staff and students cocreate these expectations and then work together to hold each other accountable.
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We pray for the Holy Spirit to guide us in this work. We pray for the Holy Spirit and the fruit that is manifested when a community lives by the Spirit (Galatians 5) to be present in our daily lives as we work and learn together at HDCH. h
h HD’s mission is Cultivating character through learning for a life of service to God. HD’s staff engage daily in the shared work of witnessing students as they take on Christlike character. We start this work on the first day of school, and carry it through classroom work, sports, clubs and events right through to the end of June.
Social Discipline The Social Discipline Window is a framework that guides the way we create culture at HD. We strive to set high expections for our learning and character and pair that with high levels of support and care. High support with low expectations is doing things “for” people high and is permissive. High expectations without support is doing things “to” people, and is harsh and punitive. Co-creating high expectations and working to support each other is “with” people and it is restorative. This approach takes care and reflection to ensure we do our best to stay in the “with” quadrant. This is a culture of care that can serve as an incubator for the Spirt to work in us, low Support, Nurture high to align our character more and more to that of Christ Social Discipline Window Jesus. Costello, Wachtel and Wachtel, 2009
Expectations & Challenges
Cultivating Christlike Character
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