Move beyond classroom management toward classrooms built on belonging, non-coercion, and restorative relationships.
Fall Founding Cohort: Mondays, Oct. 19 – Nov. 30 6:30–8:00 pm ET
What tools and ways of being will help me foster a trauma-informed restorative classroom?
"Students don't know how to talk to each other."
“Staff doesn’t know how to navigate conflict.”
“I know punishment isn't working, but I don't know what to do instead.”
Education Liberation
Education Liberation is a 7-week experiential journey for educators who want practical tools for creating classrooms rooted in belonging, connection, integrity, and accountability.
Together, we will explore what it means to move beyond traditional approaches to classroom management and toward restorative ways of being.
This isn't a course where you simply learn about Restorative Justice. You will experience restorative practices in circle and have opportunities to practice the tools with other educators before bringing them into your classroom.
Every Participant Leaves With:
✔ Restorative Questions
✔ Circle Facilitation Foundations
✔ Honest Expression Framework
✔ Accountability Planning Templates
✔ SEL practices you can use immediately
✔ Classroom belonging practices
✔Living Land Acknowledgements
✔ Weekly recorded videos
Our 7-Week Journey
Returning to our Humanity
RJE Foundations
Values
Practicing presence
“We need practices to build habits of living from the core self.”
Returning to Each Other
Modelling Empathy
Staff Circles
“We are profoundly interconnected.”
Listening From the Heart
Adapting a trauma-informed lens
The role of gratitude and awe
Community-building circles
Changing your orientation to needs
“The true self in everyone is good, wise, and powerful.”
Rethinking Punishment
Punishment vs accountability
The restorative questions
Healing Circles
Tools to move from avoidance of fear to curiosity
“Human beings are holistic.”
Speaking From The Heart
Humility
Lagging skills - including our own
Honest Expression
“All human beings have a deep desire to be in right relationship.”
Hierarchies in School
Grace
Transformative Justice
Non-Binary Thinking
Disarming ourselves
“Everyone Has Gifts - Everyone is needed for what they bring.”
Living Education Liberation
Reimagining the future of your school
Action plans
Celebration
“Everything We Need To Make Positive Change Is Already Here.”
Throughout the seven weeks, you'll move between reflection, community, practical tools, and classroom application—so that the work isn't just something you understand, but something you can begin to embody and use.
This course is guided by the preserved wisdom of global indigenous teachings on Restorative Justice.
Other influences include:
Tyson Yunkaporta, Rupert Ross, Resmaa Menakem, Sobonfu Somé, Sonya Renee Taylor, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Elizabeth Gilbert, Rick Hanson, bell hooks, Ursula LeGuin, Gabor Matte, Audre Lourde, rev. angel kyodo williams, Adrienne Maree Brown
Joe Brummer, Drisana Daniels, Chuck Daley, Terry O’Connel, Kathy Absolon, Angel Acosta, Eric Butler, Charles Eisenstein, Dorothy Vaandering, Ken Danford, John Taylor Gatto, Peter Gray, John Holt, Ivan Illich, Ken Robinson, Charles Taylor, Zac Stein, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Quotes are from Circle Forward: Building a Restorative School Community by Carolyn Boyes-Watson and Kay Pranis.
$497
Early Bird $397
If you register before September 30.
Mondays, Oct. 19 – Nov. 30
6:30–8:00 pm ET over Zoom
Meet Your Facilitator
Abby Karos
Abby Karos is an educational changemaker and justice-centered entrepreneur committed to reimagining education as a relational and liberatory practice. Her work supports young people, educators, and communities in moving beyond compliance-driven models of schooling toward learning cultures rooted in trust, restorative practices, and a love of learning.
She is the founder of two education-impact initiatives: Compass Centre for Self-Directed Learning, a learning centre for teens, and Education Liberation, a consultancy informed by global Indigenous restorative justice beliefs and practices. Abby holds a Master’s in Educational Philosophy and has training in Non-Violent Communication, Healing-Centered Education, embodied racial healing work, Restorative and Transformative Justice, Ember Circle/Council coaching, and Roadmap to Liberation. She is currently a Fellow of the Acosta Institute.