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The Restorative Justice in Schools: Using Restorative Practices to Support a Culture of Care online professional development training consists of 16 modules. 

The model for facilitating this professional development training is the “wheel of learning,” created by Dr. Peter Senge and his colleagues in The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook.  This method includes the process of reflecting, connecting, deciding, and doing.  The four areas constitute the different learning styles of adult learners.  The result of using this model is to reach each participant’s learning style.
    The reflecting stage gives the participant an overview and a big picture of what is to be learned.  Participants can then reflect on what this means to them.  In this stage the facilitator’s role is to motivate the learners to want to learn.  The learners may be utilizing personal reflections, writing, drawing, and discussion.
    The connecting stage of the process is the content area.  Learners are given the information pertinent to what is to be learned.  This step reflects traditional classroom learning.  In this stage the facilitator is the giver of information. The participants are involved in analyzing, clarifying, reasoning, connecting, and defining.
    In the deciding stage the learners are involved with a hands-on activity to apply what they learned.  The instructor assumes the role of coach and facilitator in this step.  The participants engage in demonstrating, field testing, and experimenting.
    The doing stage involves implementing the learning into daily life.  The learners are encouraged to apply their learning and report the results back later, at which time the “wheel of learning” will begin over.  The facilitator assumes the role of evaluator and remediator in this stage.  The participants are engaged in creating, sharing, implementing, and collaborating.

Senge, P.M., Kleiner, A., Roberts, C., Ross, R. & Smith, B. (1994). The fifth discipline fieldbook: Strategies and tools for building a learning organization. New York, NY: Currency.

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 Each Module is expected to take about 1.5 hours to complete, for a total of 24 hours. 

Module 1