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Annotated Peace Resource List 40 matches found, viewing page 2 of 2, goto page < 1 2 > Search Again
Mediation: Getting to Win Win!
Peace Education Foundation Ages: 18-Adult
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- Covers topics of communication skills, processing feelings, preventing escalation, the steps of mediation, plus lessons on caucusing. Tips on establishing and maintaining a mediation program. Comes with teacher’s guide, student books, and 2 posters. Optional video brings it all to life.
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Ages: 6-12
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- Recommended for middle and upper grades, the kit includes a 40-minute documentary video and a viewer's guide with classroom activities and historical documents that bring the Montgomery Bus Boycott alive for today's students.
Curriculum Kits available free at: www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp
- Peace Education Foundation, 1900 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132-1025. (800) 749-8838; www.PeaceEducation.com
The Peace Education Foundation was founded in 1980 to continue the work of Grace Contrino Abrams, pioneer in peace education and conflict resolution. Offers violence prevention training institutes and on-site training. Includes bus drivers’ training and peer mediation training.
- "Our mission is to empower teachers, children and families with the values and skills necessary to create a culture of peace." Includes curriculum and resources for Kindergarten through teenage years.
Peace Heroes
Neufeld, Christine 1996 Ages: 18-Adult
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- An active 5-session study that helps junior high youth challenge the violence around them by promoting heroes who live out Christ’s call to be peacemakers: Jesus, Mother Teresa, Francis of Assisi, John Perkins, and Muriel Lester. Sessions combine stories of peacemakers with Scripture.
Peace Quest
Guinan, Kelly 2002 148 p. Ages: 4-Adult
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- "The comprehensive approach nurtures peace within the self, relationships, society, and the planet. The essence of Peace Quest is the learning through discovery, encountering life as a journey with purpose. Over 100 intergenerational, experiential lessons are beautifully llustrated with this remarkable resource. It is an essential text for everyone who wants to practice the positive life skills of being a peacemaker. "
A Place at the Table
Ages: 18-Adult
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- "A Place at the Table" tells the story of our nation's struggle to ensure liberty and justice for all. One element sets the video apart from most historical documentaries: It is narrated entirely by young people. The book component explores this history in greater depth, while the teachers' guide provides 13 detailed lesson plans for use in the middle and upper grades. The kit includes the video, the 144-page text, and a teacher’s guide.
Curriculum Kits available free at: www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp
Proven Benefits of Conflict Resolution Education
Jones, Tricia S. Ages: 18-Adult
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- Ass’n for Conflict Resolution. Online power point presentation gives research findings, available on the ACR
site: www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/CRE-jones-research
Recommended Guidelines for Effective Conflict Resolution Education Programs in K-12 Classrooms, Schools and School Districts
ACR 2002 Ages: 18-Adult
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- The Guidelines outline how elementary and secondary school teachers, administrators, conflict resolution education practitioners, and policy makers can measure progress toward effective conflict resolution education programs. By addressing core goals, components, content and qualities of effective school-based conflict resolution education programs, these Guidelines are intended to also help leaders to make decisions about the resources and strategies needed to support such educational programs in their schools. Available online at the ACR site:
www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/articles/CE6B4C41BEBF14FD85256C1C00657E9B
Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum
Committee for Children
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- This curriculum for grades K-8 is one of the best, used extensively and well tested. See www.cfchildren.org .
- "The award-winning Second Step program teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention: Empathy, Impulse control, Anger management, Problem solving. The program includes research-based, teacher-friendly curricula, training for educators, and parent-education components. Includes materials for PreK -Grade 9. Also available on the website are research articles."
Shadow of Hate
Ages: 18-Adult
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- The "Shadow of Hate" chronicles episodes of intolerance throughout U.S. history — from the plights of Quakers in colonial New England to the 1991 riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. The kit includes the video “Shadow of Hate”, the text "Us and Them", and a teacher's guide.
Curriculum Kits available free at: www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp
- 4093 Specialty Place, Longmont, CA 80504, (303) 651-2829; webmaster@sopriswest.com; www.sopriswest.com
Since 1980 has been using research to provide "best practice" resources, information on current educational issues, and resources on reaching students who are "tough to teach." Offers various training formats.
Starting a Conflict Manager Program / Pasos Para La Implementacion de un Programa Mediacion Estudiantil
Community Boards 1992 110 p. Ages: 18-Adult
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- This manual provides the step-by-step methods and means for implementing a Conflict Manager program in elementary, middle or high schools. Includes implementation steps, information for training teachers and staff and outreach materials for parents. One manual recommended per school.
Student Workshop: Resolving Conflicts
Sunburst Tech. 24 min. Ages: 14-17
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- This workshop takes students through the conflict resolution process. Accompanying handouts and individualized and group activities provide hands-on practice in the vocabulary, skills, and steps involved.
Teaches good communication; identifying issues, feelings, and needs; brainstorming for solutions; and compromise and negotiation. After each section, handouts provide practice in the specific skill or problem presented, enabling students to grow familiar with the techniques and gain in their ability to solve conflicts. Program's flexibility allows you to complete the workshop in a few class sessions or over an entire semester. Comes with master copies of the handouts, suggestions for using the workshop, and an extensive bibliography and resource list. Includes 19 reproducible student handouts.
Students Resolving Conflict: Peer Mediation in Schools
Cohen, Richard 1995 263 p. Ages: 18-Adult
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- Provides needed information for step-by-step designing, implementing, and operating a program. Includes worksheets, forms, and background lessons on conflict resolution.
- 101 Castleton Street, Pleasantville, NY 10570, (800) 321-7511 www.sunburst.com K-12 educational software and online teacher resources
TRIBE: Conflict Resolution Curriculum for Middle School
Mediation Center 162 p. Ages: 18-Adult
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- Divided into 20-min. lessons that teach the fundamentals of negotiation: intro in 6th grade, listening skills in 7th grade, speaking skills in 8th grade. (Avail. through Mediation Network of NC. To order more than 3 copies contact The Mediation Center, 189 College St, Asheville, NC 28801-3030, 704/251-6089.)
Training Middle School Conflict Managers / Manual de Entrenamiento de Mediadores.
Community Boards. 1996 82 p. Ages: 18-Adult
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- This manual presents agendas and activities for preparing selected middle school students as Conflict Managers who will help their peers resolve disputes. This book outlines a 12-hour training program. One manual recommended for every adult who will be training or working with the Conflict Managers.
www.communityboards.org/publications_three.html
Working It Out: Conflict Resolution
28 min Ages: 10-14
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- Shows students how good communication skills and mediation can turn conflict into a positive experience, build self-esteem, and improve relationships. Video and teacher's guide.
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