Kids Working It Out Stories and Strategies for Making Peace in Our Schools [Paperback]

Kids who understand how to manage conflict successfully can transform their schools into safer and kinder places to learn. Kids Working It Out offers educators and parents a guide to the most current and effective school-based conflict resolution programs and shows how these programs can make a positive difference in our schools. Throughout the book, students and teachers share their stories of what it's really like in today's schools and reveal how Conflict Resolution Education, has shaped their experiences. Kids Working It Out covers a wide range of topics-- curriculum integration, peer mediation, restorative justice, and others-- and shows what it takes to implement an effective program in any school, and any community.

Foreword Mark Gerzon xi

Introduction xv

PART ONE: CONFLICT RESOLUTION EDUCATION: THE NEED AND THE POTENTIAL 1

1 Kids and Conflict in Schools: What’s It Really Like? 3
Randy Compton, School Mediation Center

2 An Introduction to Conflict Resolution Education 17
Tricia S. Jones, Temple University

3 The Building Blocks of Conflict Resolution Education: Direct Instruction, Adult Modeling, and Core Practices 35
Carol Miller Lieber, Educators for Social Responsibility

PART TWO: WHAT WORKS: SUCCESS STORIES IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION EDUCATION 61

4 The Heart of the Matter: Social and Emotional Learning as a Foundation for Conflict Resolution Education 63
Rachael Kessler, PassageWays Institute

In Their Own Words: “I Know That I Have Grown a Lot Emotionally” 76

5 “We Can Handle This Ourselves”: Learning to Negotiate Conflicts 89
Jennifer Kl£+