Peace Education Foundation

While many people may find our curricula user-friendly enough to implement without training, others find training a helpful enhancement. Training participants explore content more thoroughly and practice skills, which can increase their confidence and competence to implement it. If you intend to implement conflict resolution or peer mediation school-wide, training offers an opportunity to motivate and educate an entire staff, set goals, and plan for success.

Our lively, interactive training model gets high evaluations and leaves most participants enthusiastic, inspired, ready to go do it.

The typical on-site training day in the U.S. and Canada carries a minimum invoice of $2,500.00. The all-inclusive fee simplifies details for you because it includes not only the training fee but also all our travel and lodging expenses, and one grade-specific teacher's guide (some with additional materials) for each participant. The final invoice depends on the number of participants, the materials provided, and the number of training days.

According to your budgeting and administrative requirements, we can adjust the invoice to reflect costs specifically for training or curriculum.

We can also reduce on-site training costs when you bundle it with major purchases of curricula. Please call (800) 749-8838 for details and examples.

The base invoice includes up to 25 participants, based on these per-person rates:

Call for details on costs for additional consecutive training days, other agendas, or follow-up training invoiced with the initial training. Trainings in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach county typically carry a base invoice of $1,750.00, based on the per-person rates cited above.

For Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, yes, since this eliminates the costs of travel and lodging. Our minimum invoice for a training day in these counties is $1,750.00. Per-person rates remain the same as those stated above.

Certainly. We can train any combination of levels, though clearly we can provide a more developmentally-focused training with a smaller range.

One option we've found particularly expedient when training a single school that has a grade range larger than PK-5 (or 6), 6-8, and/or 9-12: begin the training day with all grade levels combined for the opening activity and a 60-90 minute presentation on the crucial role of adult modeling, peaceful classroom dynamics, and other issues that apply across the board. Then we train one group for about two hours, while the other leaves to take care of other necessary issues. After lunch, switch the groups. This gives everyone the same actual amount of training time, now more effectively targeted developmentally — and it provides time to deal with grading, classroom preparation or clean-up, parent conferences, etc.

Typically three to four weeks before your training date, we need a count of how many teacher's guides you expect to distribute. You may download those PDF forms here.

For each training group we need you to provide an overhead projector and screen, DVD or VHS player and monitor, CD player, and a flip chart on an easel.

Seating is best arranged with tables of 6-8 participants, ideally (but not necessarily) in a horseshoe format around the presenter's area.

Teachers of primary grades also receive an I-Care Cat Hand Puppet. Teachers for PK, 1, and 2 also receive the companion Peacemaking Skills for Little Kids CD.

Teachers receiving the senior high WinWin! Teacher’s Guide also receive 30 WinWin! student magazines, and each school in the training receives one DVD or VHS.

Do you train non-instructional staff as well?

Definitely. Everyone can benefit from conflict resolution skills. The more adults you have modeling the skills and helping students apply them, the more effectively you'll create a school culture that supports independent, responsible problem-solving.

We reduce the fees for participants whose work does not require a teacher's guide: administrative, aides, paraprofessionals, clerical, cafeteria, etc. We can even provide a training geared specifically toward support staff. And our R.I.D.E. training includes materials and implementation tips designed exclusively for bus drivers.

For these participants not requiring a teacher's guide, the per-person cost is $75.

How do we schedule an on-site training?

Simply call us at (305) 576-5075 or 1 (800) 749-8838 and ask to speak with a trainer. We usually need four weeks’ lead time, though we may be able to accomodate you on shorter notice. As we schedule training on a first-come first-served basis, we recommend calling well in advance if you want your workshop at the beginning or end of the school year.