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Welcome to Restoration and Wellness!
Welcome!
The Ferguson-Florissant School District is committed to excellence and equity everyday. This includes providing students with a safe and healthy environment. The Restoration and Wellness Center was developed to assist students who have exhibited behaviors that interfere with their ability to succeed in the traditional school setting. Students acquire prosocial skills that will enable them to re-engage and be successful in their home schools.
At the same time, academic instruction ensures that the learning process is uninterrupted. The Restoration and Wellness Center provides students with tools for success and support for personal development, opportunities to explore and practice alternatives to aggression in an environment that stimulates academic growth and the development of decision-making skills. Success of the students is determined by their ability to be re-engaged into their home-school population without recurrent conflicts.
A strong professional team including teachers, support specialists, special education personnel, and additional resources work intensively with the students to support them in achieving their goals. The Restoration and Wellness Center provides these services for Ferguson-Florissant students middle-school grades 6-8 and high school grades 9-12.
Administrative Team
Restorative Practices Approach
The Ferguson-Florissant School District is committed to excellence and equity everyday. This includes providing students with a safe and healthy environment. The Restoration and Wellness Center was developed to assist students who have exhibited behaviors that interfere with their ability to succeed in the traditional school setting. Students acquire prosocial skills that will enable them to re-engage and be successful in their home schools.
At the same time, academic instruction ensures that the learning process is uninterrupted. The Restoration and Wellness Center provides students with tools for success and support for personal development, opportunities to explore and practice alternatives to aggression in an environment that stimulates academic growth and the development of decision-making skills. Success of the students is determined by their ability to be re-engaged into their home-school population without recurrent conflicts.
A strong professional team including teachers, support specialists, special education personnel, and additional resources work intensively with the students to support them in achieving their goals. The Restoration and Wellness Center provides these services for Ferguson-Florissant students middle-school grades 6-8 and high school grades 9-12.
Student Code of Conduct
While attending the Restoration Center Program, you are expected to comply with the following rules (specific to Restoration and Wellness Center and in addition to all other FFSD guidelines) in all areas of your life, in and out of school.
Safe Environment
Rule #1 – Your actions must maintain a safe environment for yourself and others.
Rationale – School should be a safe place for all, and we want to encourage students to practice safety in all environments.
NO – Hitting, kicking, jabbing, pulling chairs, having a weapon (a weapon is anything that can be used or misused to harm another person), gesturing or physical threats.
Instead – Keep hands to self and act in a manner that provides safety to others.
Appropriate Language
Rule #2 – Your words must be appropriate.
Rationale – Our purpose is to help and encourage one another, and everyone must feel respected and comfortable. Proper verbal statements can help prevent misunderstandings, quarrels and fights.
NO – Name calling, cursing, sarcasm, shouting or getting in someone’s face, verbal threats or coercion.
Instead – Call people by their names; use a normal volume and tone when speaking; listen; wait your turn to speak. If you don’t have anything good to say then don’t say anything at all. Inform adults of any potential conflicts immediately.
Social Appropriateness
Rule #3 – You must behave in a manner which is appropriate for being in public and not rude or disrespectful to others…show your manners.
Rationale – In order to be successful in a variety of settings, students must know how to behave in a manner which is socially appropriate.
NO – Inappropriate bodily noises, touching, or attire.
Instead – Excuse yourself when needed; say please, thank you and excuse me. Try not to offend others with your behaviors while also maintaining pride in yourself.
Positive Learning Environment
Rule #4 – You must behave in a way that allows the lessons to continue smoothly.
Rationale – Students are in school to learn. While in the Restoration and Wellness Center Program, students are working on acquiring skills that will enable them to return to their home schools successfully.
NO – Interrupting a lesson, continual entering or leaving classroom, being off-task or making inappropriate comments.
Instead – Raise your hand; wait until you are called upon before speaking; enter and leave the room quietly; stay on task and contribute to learning in a positive way for you and others.
Getting Along with Others
Rule #5 – You must maintain positive interactions with visitors, staff, and peers.
Rationale – We are working toward understanding others’ views and becoming more tolerant of those who disagree with us.
NO – Continuing to voice an opinion after both people have expressed their ideas and understand each other.
Instead – When both people have expressed their ideas and understand each other, drop the subject or do something else; and agree to disagree.
SSD Resource
Special School District of St. Louis County (SSD) at Restoration and Wellness Center.
SSD provides special education services to students in a variety of placements, which are governed by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Services are based entirely on a student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Placements range from SSD teachers providing special education services in the student’s home school district, homebound services or attendance at an SSD special education school or program.