A practical resource for educators who want to understand and apply trauma-informed restorative practice in everyday school life. Use to support professional learning around relationships, shame, regulation, accountability, and culture change, while keeping the focus on practice, systems, and dignity rather than behaviour management alone.

A gentle introduction to Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) and to respectful, reciprocal relationships with Land, Water, plants, animals, and one another. Use with humility and care, inviting noticing, gratitude, responsibility, and relationship rather than treating it as a stand-alone Indigenous content lesson.

A reflective resource for thinking about justice, healing, and social change as both personal and collective work. Use with adults or professional learning groups as an invitation to consider how inner work, relationship, rest, possibility, and systems change are connected.

A practical bridge between trauma-informed education and restorative approaches in schools. Use it to support conversations about culture, behaviour, regulation, and repair while being careful not to reduce trauma-informed practice to a set of behaviour strategies.

An affirming picture book that celebrates the many ways children can be remarkable. Use to invite students to notice strengths in themselves and others without turning uniqueness into comparison, performance, or pressure.

A young readers’ memoir that opens conversations about apartheid, racism, identity, family, poverty, humour, resistance, and survival. Use with context so these issues are not treated as distant or resolved, and invite reflection on how systems shape people’s lives.

A Canadian middle-grade novel in verse that explores harm, shame, family struggle, accountability, and the possibility of repair. Use gently, offering choice and avoiding forced personal sharing, especially where themes may connect to difficult family experiences.

A Canadian middle-grade novel about young people choosing to carry out anonymous acts of kindness. Use to open conversation about care, intention, impact, and the difference between performative kindness and actions that genuinely support community.

A thoughtful story about belonging, exclusion, and the small actions that help people feel seen and valued. Use to invite reflection on classroom and community conditions that help everyone feel noticed, welcomed, and included.

A Canadian non-fiction book about Emily Eaton and her family’s fight for her right to attend school with non-disabled peers. Use to support conversations about disability rights, belonging, accessibility, and inclusion while avoiding inspiration-based or pity-based framing.

A light, relatable story about embarrassment, friendship, and how classmates can respond with care. Use to talk about everyday moments when someone feels exposed or uncomfortable and how a group can choose kindness over teasing.

A colourful picture book that helps children name and recognize a range of feelings. Use as part of ongoing emotional literacy work, making space for children to notice feelings without judging them as good, bad, right, or wrong.

A practical resource for creating more relational, engaging, and participatory online learning spaces. Use it when planning online circles, mentoring sessions, professional learning, or virtual gatherings where connection and care need to be intentionally supported.

A foundational resource for understanding restorative justice in education as more than a response to harm. Use it for staff learning, leadership conversations, and professional learning where readers are ready to think deeply about relationships, accountability, school culture, and systems.

A work of historical fiction that reclaims the story of Sylvester Joe, the Mi’kmaw guide engaged by William Epps Cormack in 1822. Use thoughtfully by naming the context of the title, centring the Mi’kmaw authors’ act of reclaiming identity and perspective, and inviting reflection on whose stories have been recorded, erased, or retold. A study guide is available to support classroom or group discussion.

A lyrical picture book about connection and the relationships that give meaning to who we are. Use slowly and reflectively as an invitation to think about care, reciprocity, belonging, and the people, places, and beings we are connected to.

An empowering picture book about voice, courage, creativity, and action. Use broadly by recognizing that voice can take many forms, including speaking, listening, creating, questioning, supporting, and acting with care.

A young adult novel that can support conversations about identity, appearance, disability, friendship, and belonging. Use with care around illness, body image, and difference, focusing on assumptions, privacy, dignity, and being known beyond one visible part of ourselves.

A funny picture book about exclusion, misunderstanding, and the desire to belong. Use to explore how communities decide who is welcomed, how rejection feels, and what it means to make space for someone new.

A bright, reassuring picture book that normalizes mistakes as part of learning, experimenting, and growing. Use to support a classroom or community culture where mistakes are safe to acknowledge and where people are supported in learning what comes next.

A picture book about two friends whose conflict grows when each reacts to the other instead of communicating. Use to explore escalation, perspective-taking, repair, and how small conflicts can become bigger when relationship is ignored.

A young adult novel that can support conversations about youth justice, accountability, incarceration, and the systems that shape young people’s lives. Use with care and context, avoiding deficit-based readings of youth who experience criminalization or institutionalization.

A simple, powerful picture book about standing up, being counted, and interrupting harmful group dynamics. Use to discuss voice and peer responsibility while also naming that adults share responsibility for creating safe and caring communities.

A Canadian picture book that introduces children’s rights through accessible poems and playful language. Use to connect rights with lived responsibilities in homes, schools, and communities, including dignity, safety, voice, care, and accountability.

A sequel that continues the story of Sylvester Joe, whose traditional name is Suliewey, as he seeks out the last remaining Beothuk community. Use thoughtfully as a Mi’kmaw-authored challenge to settler narratives about Mi’kmaw and Beothuk relationships, making space for oral history, kinship, land-based knowledge, and the responsibilities involved in learning local history. A study guide is available to support classroom or group discussion.

A child-friendly introduction to restorative justice, harm, feelings, responsibility, and repair. Use as an invitation into conversation rather than a script for fixing behaviour, making space for children to consider what people need when harm happens.

A comprehensive guide for using circles to build and sustain restorative school communities. Use thoughtfully as a support for practice, not as a script to perform without relationship, preparation, and attention to context.

A graphic novel about a student navigating a new school environment, friendship, race, class, and belonging. Use to support conversations about school culture and everyday harm, including microaggressions, without asking racialized students to explain or carry the learning for others.

A gentle picture book about loneliness, tenderness, and unexpected care. Use as a reflective resource for conversations about noticing others, offering care, and recognizing that connection can emerge in surprising ways.

A compassionate picture book about empathy, mistakes, choices, mindfulness, and our shared humanity. Use to move beyond “be nice” language toward deeper conversations about feelings, impact, self-compassion, repair, and connection.

A reflective picture book about fear, avoidance, courage, and possibility. Use to help children think about challenges while also making clear that not all problems are theirs to solve alone and that support from others matters.

A gentle picture book about a neighbourhood cat who connects with different people in different ways. Use to explore community, loneliness, care, and the small relationships that help people feel connected and remembered.

A widely used novel for exploring kindness, difference, peer relationships, and school culture. Use thoughtfully so that disability or visible difference is not reduced to a lesson for others; focus instead on dignity, belonging, and shared responsibility.

A powerful series that opens conversations about human rights, gender, war, displacement, courage, and family responsibility. Use with historical and cultural context, and pair with multiple voices so Afghanistan, Muslim communities, and girls’ lives are not represented through a single story.

A collection of stories introducing young readers to First Nations cultural teachings, including the talking circle, medicine wheel, eagle feather, drum, and sacred medicines. Use with care, naming the Mi’kmaw creators and avoiding pan-Indigenous generalizations or disconnected use.