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Restorative literacies merges research in literacy with restorative practices to offer an approach that engages and empowers students, maximizes exploration of literacies, and fosters positive literacies identities. Not prescriptive or dogmatic to a particular program or model, restorative literacies embraces a wide variety of cognitive and metacognitive processes for reading and writing. However, it begins uniquely with educators learning to notice and listen for the stories students bring with them to their formal education in order to disrupt deficit mindsets, center literacies learners, and uphold voices. The author draws on 30 years’ experience to describe how she came to see the connection between behavior and literacy and how the Social Discipline Window inspired an approach to teaching literacy based on working with students. Citing extensive research in education and literacy, the paper also features an example of an educator learning how to teach in this agentive manner.