CIRCLE FORWARD

​Circle Forward is a resource guide designed to help teachers, administrators, students and parents incorporate the practice of Circles into the everyday life of the school community. This resource guide offers comprehensive step-by-step instructions for how to plan, facilitate and implement the Circle for a variety of purposes within the school environment. It describes the basic process, essential elements and a step-by-step guide for how to organize, plan, and lead Circles. It also provides over one hundred specific lesson plans and ideas for the application of Circles in the following areas of school life:
  • Learning and establishing Circle practices
  • Establishing and affirming community norms
  • Teaching and learning in Circle
  • Building connection and community
  • Promoting social-emotional skills
  • Facilitating important but difficult conversations
  • Working together as adults
  • Engaging parents and the wider community
  • Developing students as leaders in peer Circles
  • Using Circles for restorative discipline

​Table of Contents For Circle Forward PDF
​To order Circle Forward for your school by phone please contact The Center For Restorative Justice at
Call: 617-305-1991
Email: crj@suffolk.edu

New Module 14:
​Moving Toward Racial Equity Starting with Adults

Circle Forward resource guide offers comprehensive step–by-step instructions for how to plan, facilitate and implement Circles within the school environment with over 100 specific lesson plans for Circles in classrooms; to promote student leadership; SEL instruction; parent engagement; discipline and more. In this edition, an exciting NEW module Moving Toward Racial Equity: Starting with Adults offers 18 Circle plans for dialoguing about race and racism. Written for adults, these Circles present an ordered path for deepening the dialogue to increase racial awareness and develop competency and comfort in building equitable schools.
Table of Contents For Moving Toward Racial Equity PDF
​To order Circle Forward for your school by phone please contact The Center For Restorative Justice at
Call: 617-305-1991
Email: crj@suffolk.edu