Archive for the ‘Education/School Conflict’ Category:
Special Education Mediation: A Proactive Approach to Resolving School Conflicts
Join us to learn the who, what, when, how and why of special education mediation. Learn how special education students can get the services and support they need to succeed. How mediation helps parents and educators collaborate to promote student learning and school success. How mediation resolves special educational disputes in a meaningful and productive way.
Join Zena Zumeta as she talks with Laura Athens about this important topic. Read, Listen, Share »
Bullying: An Elephant in the Classroom
Bullying: An elephant in the classroom focuses on the chaos and mayhem exposed in one Texas school district. Teachers complain of abusive, fearful, and chaotic classrooms that interfere with educating students. They are the targets of bullying by their co-workers and/or school administrators. They are faced with dealing with the elephant in the classroom. Dr. Esque L. Walker will join us and inform us of how ineffective policies and programs to address school or workplace bullying can have dire consequences. She will share the lessons learned. Read, Listen, Share »
Reframing Campus Conflict
Are you a parent of a college student or an educator dealing with campus conflict? Maybe YOU are a student whose gotten into some trouble on your campus? If so, this shows for you.
We spoke with Dr. Nancy Giacomini and Jennifer Meyer Schrage, J.D., editors of their new book “Reframing Campus Conflict: Student Conduct Practice through a Social Justice Lens.”
Giacomini and Schrage addressed how the culture and diversity of the student population has changed over the years, and how unfortunately, the system for dealing with student conduct and conflict incidents has becoming increasingly legalistic. How do we re-frame campus conflict so that it is inclusive, fair and is an alternative to the costly legal system.
Nancy Geist Giacomini, Ed.D. is a private educator, mediator, facilitator and author based in Chester County, PA. Nancy completed her Educational Leadership Degree at the University of Delaware while a Conflict Resolution Program (CRP) Associate in the Institute for Public Administration. She taught in the Master’s Program, mediated special education disputes for the Delaware Department of Education, and facilitated state-wide dialogue.
Jennifer Meyer Schrage, J.D. provides leadership to the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (OSCR) within the Division of Student Affairs at the University of Michigan. During her tenure at UM, Jennifer led the OSCR Team in departmental realignment and championed a nationally recognized full-spectrum menu of conflict resolution pathways, including mediation, restorative justice and related innovative methods. This Spectrum Model was introduced at the 2008 Gehring Academy (Schrage & Thompson, 2008), featured at the 2009 annual conference and has evolved into a collaborative publication due out this summer.
For more information about conflict resolution at the University of Michigan and Association for Student Conduct Administration
Conflict Resolution in Teacher Education (CRETE)
In this episode, we focus our conversation on Conflict Resolution in Teacher Education (CRETE). The mission of the CRETE project is to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with skills and knowledge of conflict education and social and emotional learning necessary for creating constructive learning environments.
The Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education (CRETE) curriculum combines the best of theory and practice to build and enhance skills in conflict management and classroom management including: bullying prevention, communication, positive discipline, managing disruptive students, building classroom and school community, and restorative practices.
Conflict Resolution Education (CRE) has proven effective in reducing negative student behavior, improving classroom climate, enhancing students’ social and emotional competencies, and providing students critical skills for cooperatively managing conflicts with peers and adults (Aber et al, 2003).
Our guest speaker Margaret Leeds has been actively involved in the field of conflict management as mediator, trainer, and consultant since 1992, when, as Assistant Principal at Beverly Hills High School, she initiated the school’s Peer Mediation program. This indoctrination to the mediation process led to extensive formal training in the field of conflict resolution, including a Master of Dispute Resolution Degree from Pepperdine University Law School and, ultimately, to her current career as a conflict management consultant.
Formal training and experience in conflict management, coupled with thirty-seven years as a distinguished educator and school administrator (recipient of 1987 National Educator Award), have prepared Ms. Leeds to be of particular value to universities and school districts who are confronted with conflicts that are endemic to academia.
You can reach Margaret at maleeds@prodigy.net
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