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Type of Material: Teacher’s guide.
Cost: $25.
Talk It Out: Conflict Resolution for the Elementary
Teacher. 1996. Barbara Porro, Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development,
1250 North Pitt Street, Alexandria, VA 22314.
Phone: 703–549–9110
Audience: Elementary teachers.
Focus: To incorporate conflict resolution training
into a daily program at the moment when students
disagree.
Key Teaching Strategies: Uses 54 children’s problems
to teach them the skills of managing anger,
listening, oral communication, and critical thinking.
Type of Material: Book.
Cost: $18.95.
Teaching Students To Be Peacemakers. 1987, 1991,
1995. David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson,
Interaction Book Company, 7208 Cornelia Drive,
Edina, MN 55435. NCJ 160422.
Phone: 612–831–9500
Audience: Grades K–12 and adults.
Focus: To create a cooperative learning community,
teach all students how to negotiate and mediate,
rotate the responsibility of mediator so that all
students have their turn, and continue to teach students
negotiation and mediation skills throughout
the school year. Research base is presented.
Key Teaching Strategies: Experiential/cooperative
learning, simulations, role-playing, and perspective
taking.
Type of Material: Book, student manuals, video,
and audiocassettes.
Cost: Book, $25; video, $25; audiocassettes, $10.
Teaching Young Children in Violent Times. 1994.
Diane Levin, Educators for Social Responsibility,
23 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Phone: 800–370–2515
Audience: Grades pre-K through 3.
Focus: To teach young children to develop the
understanding and skills for living peacefully
with others.
Key Teaching Strategies: Teacher-led discussions,
role-playing, class games, and rituals.
Type of Material: Teacher’s guide.
Cost: $16.95.
B–15
Peaceable School
Creating the Peaceable School: A Comprehensive Program
for Teaching Conflict Resolution. 1994. Richard
Bodine, Donna Crawford, and Fred Schrumpf, Research
Press, Inc., P.O. Box 9177, Champaign, IL
61826. NCJ 154760.
Phone: 217–352–3273
Audience: Grades 3–12.
Focus: To create a cooperative school environment
through the institution of a rights and responsibilities
approach to discipline where both adults and
students learn to manage and resolve conflicts using
the strategies of negotiation, mediation, and group
problem solving.
Key Teaching Strategies: Experiential learning
activities, learning centers, cooperative learning,
simulations, and class meetings.
Type of Material: Program guide, student manual,
and video.
Cost: Program guide, $35.95; student manual,
$14.95; video, program guide, and student manual,
$365; video rental, $55.
Resolving Conflict Creatively: A Teaching Guide
for Grades Kindergarten Through Six. 1993.
NCJ 160361.
Resolving Conflict Creatively: A Teaching Guide for
Secondary Schools. 1990.
RCCP National Center, 163 Third Avenue, No. 103,
New York, NY 10003.
Phone: 212–387–0225
Audience: Grades K–6 and 7–12.
Focus: To reduce violence and promote caring and
cooperative schools and communities through showing
children that they have many choices for dealing
with conflict other than through passivity or aggression,
through teaching them skills to make real
choices in their own lives, and through increasing
their understanding and appreciation of their own
culture and other cultures.
Key Teaching Strategies: Role-playing, interviews,
group dialog, brainstorming, and other affective
experiential learning strategies.
Type of Material: Curriculum, videos, resource
material.
Cost: Curriculum not available for purchase without
a 3- to 5-year commitment to the program within a
school system. Videos are available from $24 to $40.