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Episode 10 | Sheehan, School Principal

I loved talking with Colten's principal. She has a beautiful perspective on welcoming all children into the school just the way they are and she strives to support her staff and build up the children. I have been impressed with everyone in the Special Education department and love working with them to create a successful plan for Colten. It truly is a team effort when you have a child with learning differences and behavior challenges. I hope you all enjoy this episode. 

Sheehan mentions that her staff is trained in Restorative Practice, which I wish I would've asked more questions about, but here are the questions the teachers are trained to ask when there are behavior challenges: 

• What happened?
• What were you thinking of at the time?
• What have you thought about since?
• Who has been affected by what you have done?
• In what way have they been affected?
• What do you think you need to do to make things right?

I love how this makes the child slow down, look at what happened, evaluate how they are feeling and how they reacted, and how can they correct the problem and make better choices in the future.