Conflict Management Programs

• Teach basic communication and problem solving skills;

• Develop an environment where conflicts do not erupt into violence;

• Support and affirm diversity; and

• Seek to establish an overall tone of respect.

Peer Mediation helps students

• Resolve disputes before they require serious discipline;

• Participate in creating solutions to their own problems;

• Preserve or improve relationships; and

• Learn life-long communication and negotiation skills.

Peer Mediation Programs

• Teach a select group of students advanced intervention and problem solving strategies;

• Change the school culture - mediators are looked up to as role models;

• Empower students to be responsible for their school’s or organization’s climate; and

• Prepare students for possible roles as a middle and high school mediator or as an adult mediator.

The first step is establishing a need for the program through surveys and planning retreats. Once a need is established, a CM committee is set up to assess which components of a CCMP are appropriate for your group.

Hands-on Services Include

For the Whole-School:

• Summer planning retreat coordi-nation to assess your school’s needs and design a program that will work best for your students, teachers and staff

• CM committee coordination to implement the summer retreat plan

• Newsletters on monthly CM themes, ideas on how to infuse the theme into academics and resource tie-ins

• Words of the Week (WOW) that connect the monthly themes to language arts

• Bulletin boards on the monthly themes and WOW

• Resources to infuse CM lessons into the language arts curriculum

• Whole School Morning Meetings to build a sense of community and trust that helps students succeed in academics

For Students:

• Peer Mediation Training

• 2^nd Step, a Violence Prevention Curriculum

• Mix It Up Day Coordination

• Service Clubs to help negative leaders become positive leaders

• Bully Prevention Training

• CM lessons modeled in classes

• CM resources

• Peace Bench(es) for students to talk through conflicts

For Teachers:

• In services on infusing CM into lang. arts, bullying prevention, positive discipline and whole school coordination of CM programs

• Model CM infusion into lang. arts lessons

• Resources on CM pedagogy and curriculum

• Chat’n Chew to strengthen positive relationships between teachers

For Administrators:

• Conflict Management in the Workplace

For Bus Drivers:

• De-escalating Conflicts on the Bus

To get involved, ask questions or schedule an assessment contact:

Mara Giglio

740.592.2608

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