As Champions, we know that meaningful change happens through connection, shared vision, and collective accountability. Champion Team meetings provide a space to come together, align on purpose, and ensure that restorative practices remain actionable and impactful. Below, you’ll find structured agendas for initial Champion Team meetings designed to support your team’s growth and cohesion.
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Stepping Stone 1
Champion Team Meetings: Connecting, Envisioning, and Strengthening Accountability
Identify Our Why
Your journey begins with Champion Meeting 1: Identifying Our Why, where your team explores the shared purpose and vision that unites you.
Develop a From-To Statement
In Champion Meeting 2: Developing a From-To Framework, you’ll map the shifts needed to move from where you are now to where you want to be.
Group & Team Efficiency
Champion Team Meeting 3 focuses on Team Efficiency, providing an agenda and structured framework to discuss survey results, identify strengths, and explore opportunities to improve how the team functions. The survey used in this discussion has been adapted from the work of adrienne maree brown.
Group & Team Relationships
Champion Team Meeting 4 shifts the focus to Group/Team Relationships, offering an agenda and scaffolding to analyze survey results, reflect on team dynamics, and strengthen connections for a more cohesive and collaborative group. This survey has also been adapted from the work of adrienne maree brown.
Want to explore more?
Champions, to further strengthen your team’s development, we invite you to explore key areas that shape how you work together. Engaging with Psychological Safety, Leadership Styles and the Akoben Social Discipline Window , and School Culture & Climate Survey will provide valuable insights into your team’s dynamics and leadership approaches. These tools will help you cultivate a culture of trust, adaptability, and shared responsibility—ensuring that your team not only functions effectively but thrives in its restorative journey.
Stepping Stone 2
Assessing Your Team’s Progress
Stepping Stone 2 helps you take a closer look at where your team stands in its restorative journey using the Akoben Restorative Practices Rubric. This step is an opportunity to reflect on strengths, identify growth areas, and integrate insights from Stepping Stone 1. By examining key indicators of restorative implementation, your team can pinpoint areas for deeper focus and develop a shared path forward.
The SOAR Framework
The SOAR framework helps you identify key strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and desired results as you work to transform school culture and climate. Follow these steps to guide your team’s reflection and planning.
The Akoben Rubric for Connection + Challenge
Akoben Rubric: Guiding Team Growth
The Akoben Rubric provides a framework for teams to assess where they stand within key domains of restorative practices. This conversation may unfold over multiple meetings, allowing teams to explore and evaluate each domain individually. Through this process, teams gain clarity on their strengths, identify areas for growth, and develop a shared understanding of their restorative journey.