CHAPTER5Accountability Through Agreements, Practices, and Principles
In any group process, there are skills for participating and norms for functioning. In circle work, the skills are the practices and the agreements are the norms for operating. The principles provide the energetic movement in an all-leader system.
A California middle school (teaching grades 6 through 8) had been experiencing increasing problems with student attitude and vandalism. Near the end of one school year, the principal invited a group of parents, teachers, and students to meet over the summer months to address these issues. The group pared down hours of conversation into three stated agreements, intended to reinforce the kind of environment that would foster mutual trust ...
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