Annotated Peace Resource List

Research-based material explains: origins of behavior, proven behavior management techniques, model interventions, and re-integrating the child into the classroom. www.sopriswest.com:80/swstore/product.asp?sku=4

Dale Le Fevre is a leading authority on New Games. In many of his workshops, traditionally adversarial groups have come together to play and have fun: Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East; Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland; mixed races in South Africa; and Serbs, Croats, and Muslims in Croatia and Serbia. This book includes the most popular New Games (including many recently found games) from more than 25 years of presenting.

A Gamefinder helps you select the ideal game for your situation, plus tips to help you lead the games. Stories of firsthand experiences show how New Games can have in building cooperation, teamwork, and common understanding.

Links to sites about child abuse, violence, bullying and other issues affecting children and families. These should help you in more effectively advocating for social and emotional learning programs in your own school, family or community.
Sections for Bullying Prevention, Child Abuse Prevention, Violence Prevention and Substance Abuse, Parent Resources, General Resources, Education and Research.

his is a bookstore catalog list dedicated exclusively to conflict resolution resources. There are over 300 annotated titles covering a wide range of conflict resolution topics. Subjects you can search include: Communication, Conflict Resolution, Cross-Cultural, Environmental Public Policy, Facilitation, Media and Conflict, Mediation, Peacebuilding, Community Justice, Religious, Schools, Separation/Divorce, Teaching/Training....

This classic book provides elementary school teachers with thoughtful, effective ideas for responding to every day classroom conflicts. Includes over 200 classroom-tested activities and games and over 20 different techniques with examples.
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Over 150 games that include skills to resolve conflict, enhance communication, build self-esteem, appreciate nature, and laugh together. The games are indexed according to age level, amount of activity, group size, and location.

Kathleen Odean, chair of the 2002 Newberry Award Committee, has updated this classic reference book for parents and teachers. The 600-plus titles reflect equality between boys and girls. Each listing includes a reading level and synopsis. Includes indexes and a section on parent resources. It is divided into different subjects: fiction, biography, sports fiction, comtemporary life fiction, picture books, folktales and covers books for children ages 2-14.

A full subject index includes thematic references to annotated books. See at www.dpi.state.wi.us/pubsales .

"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.

Sponsored by the Southern Law Poverty Center, this site is a treasure trove for educators and parents. Its free (to educators) semi-annual magazine (Teaching Tolerance) and excellent teaching resource packets offer the best in ideas to help us all get along. Check out their resource list of curricular materials for all grades. www.tolerance.org/teach/resources/index.jsp

Teaching Tolerance Magazine is available free to educators. See details at www.teachingtolerance.org

This resource book for parents and teachers has stories and activities to help 6 to 15-year-old children see their anger and figure out what to do with it.

While not the most recent in the literature, this could be one of the classics worth paying attention to. Some of the most prominent activists working in the fields of conflict resolution and emotional literacy argue that schools--as our children's last common public institution in a fractured time--must educate the heart as well as the mind. Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti show us how it can be done. They draw on research in social and emotional learning, as well as on their years of experience with thousands of kids and teachers through the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program--one of the largest and most successful of its kind in the country, serving over 150,000 children in more than 325 schools nationwide.

Waging Peace in Our Schools is news from the front--the essential primer on a movement that is transforming our schools. The book is a practical guide, filled with stories, voices, ideas, and advice. We see teachers using innovative techniques to create "peaceable classrooms," student mediators who are changing the lives of their schools, and the core curricula of conflict resolution and diversity education.

"Waging Peace in Our Schools is a model of emotional intelligence. . . . I hope that every teacher and parent reads this, and takes this superb advice to heart." --Daniel Goleman

Through stories and analysis, Howard looks to his own identity to discover what it means to be culturally competent "white" teachers in racially diverse schools. Author draws from 25 years of experience as a multicultural educator as well as from collaboration with students and colleagues from many cultures.

Designed for use with groups of children or adults, offering ways to hear values, demonstrate skills, and express oneself in safety.