1. Training Services: Deliver at least eight (8) and at most ten (10) RJ leadership team trainings in person and/or online. The trainings must address the following topics: a. Overview of RJ history, principles, and research; b. RJ and its connection to NYSED Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks1 , Mental Health Education Standards2 , and Culturally Responsive Education Framework3 ; c. The stages of systemic implementation4 , including embedding RJ into policies and codes of conduct; d. Establishing accountability systems, including periodic discipline data reporting and monitoring; e. Methods for holding school leaders accountable for implementation through hiring and evaluation protocols; and f. Action planning to support a mindful implementation process that includes key stakeholders. Notes: i. UCS will provide all publicity, scheduling, and registration services for upcoming training events, including communications with training participants. ii. The awarded contractor shall provide UCS with copies of attendance sheets or other records documenting trainees’ participation in trainings. 2. Coaching Services: Deliver implementation coaching services estimated to range from fifty (50) to one hundred (100) hours per leadership team to between two (2) and six (6) leadership teams trained to implement RJ practices, including monthly meetings to help school teams: a. Facilitate monthly meetings with school leadership teams; b. Identify additional team members as well as roles and responsibilities for team members; and c. Make progress implementing the school’s individualized action plan developed during team leadership training. d. Provide brief (1-3 hour) professional development trainings for school staff (if requested). e. Provide technical assistance implementing RJ processes (if requested). 3. Coaching-the-Coaches Support: Deliver fifty (50) to one hundred (100) hours of coaching support to RJ implementation coaches who assist leadership teams trained to implement RJ practices.
