1. disrupt the school-to-prison pipelineby increasing students of color’s self awareness, ability to cope appropriately with challenging emotions, and navigating social dynamics in our schools and communities.
2. restore, heal, and empower students and staff of colorwho continue to experience trauma (physical violence, early childhood trauma, racial trauma, bullying, etc.) in their communities and at school. Research shows that 61% of black children and 51% of Hispanic children have experienced at least one ACE, compared to 40% of white children. In every part of the country, black students have the highest rate of ACE.
3. provide a safe, nonjudgmental spacefor difficult conversations about systemic racism, white supremacy, educational opportunity gap, discipline gap, through culturally responsive and trauma-informed lenses, and to receive support.
4. depart from the dominant white and individualisticset of values about behavior, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness,relationship skills, and responsible decision-making to adopt a culturally responsive approach to SEL concepts.
5. Strengthen the school-BIPOC families and communitiespartnerships.

We train and support individual teachers and school-based administrators, and schools on designing culturally responsive restorative justice practices and SEL curricula. Specifically, we offer the following services:

1.   Restorative Justice Circles Training:This is a 12-36 week training conducted both in person and online, and includes multiple classroom observations. The training includes Circle Up BIPOC(reserved to BIPOC teachers and students) and Circle UP Name of the school mascot ( i.e., Circle Up Jaguars/ Cougars, etc.):

2.   Classroom-based Restorative & Trauma-Informed PracticesThis is a 12-20 week-training conducted both in person and online, and includes multiple classroom observations.

3.   Designing a Culturally Responsive SEL Curriculum

4.   Transitioning from a Punitive to a Restorative DisciplineThis is in-depth support to a group of teachers or the entire school faculty that typically last from 6 to 10 months.The scope of this service is collaboratively designed with the school administrators and teachers. It includes classroom observations, in person and virtual meetings with all stakeholders, access to resources, and transformative coaching.The training includes but not limited to the following topics:

●    Design a tailored and culturally responsive SEL curriculum for your classroom.

●    Student-led Restorative Discipline

●    Restorative Justice Circles

●    Trauma-informed Practices

Our process starts with an email to Darius Coulibaly at Dr.coulibaly@endlesslearningconsulting.comto request a needs assessment meeting.