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Peace Education Training Institutes 2008

Bay City, Michigan
Call (800) 749-8838 for more information

Handling Student Conflicts

(TBA)
Attend all four days
in Bay City for $395
Beyond Curriculum (TBA)


Graduate Credit through Saginaw Valley State University
available in Bay City (additional fees apply)

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LODGING

We've often stayed in Bay City at the Marriott Fairfield Inn, about two miles from the training site. Check with your travel agent or online services for other options, including more in Saginaw, 15 minutes' drive south. Reserve early.

 

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  PK through Senior High
Training Institute
for Classroom, Guidance, or After School

This two-day overview introduces the basics for implementing conflict resolution and peer mediation in your classroom, school, district, or community. This training is geared toward participants who are new to teaching peacemaking skills and mediation, or who would like a general review.

In addition to our offering a grade-specific Teacher’s Guide for every grade from PK through 8, a unique Senior High component, and special materials for in-school suspension and after school programs, our literature-based curricula for grades K, 3, and 4, and our 8th grade American History curriculum make it easier than ever to integrate conflict resolution with academic requirements.


Day One: Conflict Resolution PK-12
1. Examine six components of conflict resolution applicable at all grade levels.
2. Survey grade-specific PeaceWorks lessons.
3. Understand the outcomes and benefits of a conflict resolution program.
4. Learn to help students apply curriculum lessons to their own conflicts.
5. Introduce basic implementation issues for various settings.

Day Two: Peer Mediation 4-12 (we co-present concepts and skills in the Peace Table format for grades PK-3)
1. Understand the relationship of mediation to a well-established
    conflict resolution and safe schools program.
2. Learn and practice essential mediation skills.
3. Learn the process for training peer mediators.
4. Prepare a basic implementation plan.

Continental breakfast daily at 8:00 a.m., training 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

REGISTRATION INCLUDES THESE MATERIALS:
• Training Institute Manual
• Staff Development Manual
• Your choice of a grade-specific PeaceWorks Teacher's Guide
• Mediation Teacher's Guide

DATES: Summer 2008 TBA
SITE: Bay Arenac ISD, 4228 Two Mile Road, Bay City, Michigan 48706
COST: $195/person

To register:
Click here to download the Registration Form PDF.
Fax this completed form with your Purchase Order,
or payment via Visa/MC, to (305) 576-3106.
You may also register by phone.
Call us for more details at (800) 749-8838

Save!
Attend both Bay City workshops,
Handling Student Conflicts and
Beyond Curriculum (below),
for a total registration fee of $395.

Graduate Credit is available through Saginaw Valley State University.
(Additional fees apply.)

For information on customizing this training for your school as an on-site, call 1 (800) 749-8838

back to www.peaceeducation.com

 

 

 

BEYOND CURRICULUM
Advanced Training Institute

If you’d like something beyond our Handling Student Conflicts workshop in Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation, this one is for you!

Skills emphasize application of resiliency research in the school, home, and community; workings of the emotional brain; skills for processing conflicts and other emotionally difficult topics; infusing peaceful problem-solving according to the academic curriculum or a current situation; dealing with bully-victim-bystander dynamics; and the relationship of critical thinking to constructive problem-solving and mediation skills.

This training is geared toward participants who have experience in teaching peacemaking skills and mediation (or who have at least taken our basic workshop).

Continental breakfast daily at 8:00 a.m., training 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Day One
1. Successes and Challenges
2. Resiliency: Protective Factors in the school, home, and community
3. Hot Topics: Four Characteristics for Guiding Discussions
4. Infusion: Going Beyond the Curriculum

Day Two
1. The Emotional Brain: Learning and Unlearning about Conflict
2. Violence Prevention: Bully, Victim, Bystander issues
3. Advanced Mediation: Critical Thinking, Concepts and Skills
    Fact/Opinion, Inference/Assumption, Interest/Position

REGISTRATION INCLUDES THESE MATERIALS:
• Bully-Proofing Your School (Elementary or Middle School)
• Advanced Skill-Building for Mediators

DATES: Summer 2008 TBA
SITE: Bay Arenac ISD, 4228 Two Mile Road, Bay City, Michigan 48706
COST: $249/person

To register:
Click here to download the Registration Form PDF.
Fax this completed form with your Purchase Order,
or payment via Visa/MC, to (305) 576-3106.
You may also register by phone.
Call us for more details at (800) 749-8838

Save!
Attend both Bay City workshops,
Handling Student Conflicts (above)
and Beyond Curriculum,
for a total registration fee of $395.

Graduate Credit is available through Saginaw Valley State University.
(Additional fees apply.)

For information on customizing this training for your school as an on-site, call 1 (800) 749-8838

back to www.peaceeducation.com