School Programs

The proven, most effective approach is a year long, whole school commitment. It involves school administration, teachers, support staff, students, and parents. The adults are trained first. Then, teachers present the conflict and anger management skill-building curriculum. A common language for dealing with conflict is created throughout the school. Adults model and reinforce good conflict skills. Throughout the school year The Conflict Center staff trains, supports, consults and works with the school to develop a successful program and a holistic, nonviolent, peaceful school environment.

School Program Components

• Adult interpersonal conflict management
• Classroom management
• Playground conflict management
• Curriculum development
• Parent education
• Paraprofessional training
• Classroom demonstration lessons
• Applied alternative dispute resolution
  • Facilitation
  • Mediation
  • Negotiation
• Reading for Peace
• And much more . . .

In addition we offer faculty in-services and other contract services. Each of our modules can be used to build a program specifically oriented to the needs of your group. A portion of the first workshop will incorporate some basic conflict management work that looks at ways teachers, students or parents can choose productive behavior in any conflict situation.

Proven Results

In many cases the students learned about positive responses to conflict that are totally foreign to what they experience in their homes. Brad Brauer, Prevention Coordinator, East Middle School

• Published elementary and middle school curriculum, (Peacemaking made Practical in English and Spanish and The Conflict Center’s Secondary School Curriculum)
• Published parenting book (How To Avoid World War III At Home)
• Powerful Me, a CD-OM computer game for elementary age children to teach and reinforce skills for non-violence
• 159 schools have used The Conflict Center’s programs in the past eight years. Over 53,500 students, 7,900 faculty and staff, and hundreds of parents have been trained with the lifetime skills of peacemaking
• Undergraduate, graduate and professional internships available. The Conflict Center staff has trained over 40 interns in programs individually designed to meet a variety of disciplines interested in conflict management.

To be a Peacemaking Partner
Contact Stefanie Winfield at The Conflict Center,
Phone: 303 433-4983 Fax: 303 433-6166
E-mail: schools@conflictcenter.org

Visit our Media Resource Center
Our library has hundreds of books on conflict and anger management and parenting available for checkout. Audio and video tapes are available for rental. Our reference library includes preschool, elementary, secondary, and adult training curricula.

Schools We Have Served
Alternative Center for Education, Alicia Sanchez, All Souls, Angevine, Annunciation, Apache Headstart, Ashley, Aurora Central, Aurora District Counselors, Aurora Hills, Aurora Public School for City Employees, Baker, Barnum, Barrett, Beach Court, Bear Creek, Bell, Belmar, Birch, Bishop, British Primary, Bromwell, Brown, Bryant Webster, Byers, CCD Tech West, CDE, Centennial, Central Lakewood ADT, Century, Chatfield, Cherry Creek, Clayton College, Cole, Colorado H.S., Colorado Academy, Colorado Christian Home, Colombian, Community College of Aurora, CICS, CLA, Cory, Council Bluffs, Cowell, Creekside, CU Boulder, Dartmouth, DAYS, Denver Coop. Preschool, Denver Inner City Parish Schl., Denver School of the Arts, Denver University, Doull, Eaglecrest, Eagleton, East MS, Ebert, Edison, Emily Griffith, Englewood Alternative, Escuela Tlatelolco, Everett, Fairmont, Fallis, Fletcher Miller, Florence Crittendon, Force, Fox St., Fremont, Fruitdale Preschool, Gateway, George Washington, Georgetown, Gilpin, Gilpin Extended Day, Gove, Hallett, Hamilton, Harrington, Henry, Herzl Jewish, Highland ELC, Holly Hills, Holly Ridge, Holm, Horace Mann, Horizon, Idaho Springs, Kaiser, Kemp, Kennedy, Knapp, Kunsmiller, Lake, Lakewood, Lansing, Learning Center, Laredo MS, Lincoln, Lyn Knoll, McClain, Manual, Martin Luther King, McKinley Thatcher, Metro State, Milliken, Mitchell, Montbello, Monterey, Morey, Munroe, Newlon, North, Notre Dame (Denver), Our Lady of Lourdes, Overland, Park Hill, Park Hill United Methodist Child Center, Park Lane, Pennington Children’s Center, Philips, Playtime Plus Daycare, Polton, Ralston, Ranum, Red Rocks Com. College, Regis University, Remington, Rishel, Rocky Mtn. Expeditionary Schl., Rosedale, Samuels, Schmitt, Sewell, Skinner, Smedly, Smilet, Smith-Renaissance, South, St. Anne’s, St. Joseph, St. Louis, St. Mary’s (Iowa), St. Mary’s (Littleton), St. Pius, St. Rose of Lima, Steck, Stedman, Stien Stevenson, St. Peter,