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Welcome to the 2011-12 Conict Resolution Education Calendar for Teachers!

MAPping Change, LLC, Oahu, Hawaii

Marina Piscolish, President;

hp://www.mappingchange.com

Regina McCarthy, Susan Young, Thomas Conlee, Associates

Conict Resoluon Program, IPA, University of Delaware

Kathy Wian, Conict Resoluon Program Coordinator;

hp://www.ipa.udel.edu/ipa/impact/conictresoluon.html

Corinne OConnor, Stephanie Paerson, Research Assistants

Conict Resolution Day Bookmark Contest WinnerMegan Cicerone, Grade 7

Maryland Mediation & Conict Resolution OfceMACRO

About the 2011-2012 Calendar Team Members & Special Credits and Acknowledgements

The 2011-2012 Calendar Team would like to thank all those who graciously contributed their me and talent to this years calendarfrom those who submied acvies to the photographers and student contest

winners that allowed us to share their work. Special thanks go to the calendars founder, Dr. Bill Warters of Wayne State University, for his unwavering support and guidance. We proudly present the third edion

of the Calendar.

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About This Calendar:

Any change we wish to see in our world will have to be lived-out in our classrooms, schools

and families. This calendar is oered in appreciaon and recognion of the important

work done every day by educators and youth leaders who plant seeds of knowledge and

skills essenal to a civil society and a peaceful, just world. Designed as a supplement to

any curriculum or professional development program, the calendar is chockfull of ideas,

acvies, web resources, featured dates, inspiraonal quotes, poetry and powerful images

-- all chosen to make the integraon of conict resoluon educaon easy; all chosen to make

conict resoluon everyones healthy habit.

JAMS Foundaon. Publicaon of this yearscalendar was supported by generous fundingfrom the JAMS Foundaon. The JAMS Foundaons

mission is to encourage the use of alternave dispute

resoluon (ADR), support educaon at all levels about

collaborave processes for resolving dierences,

promote innovaon in conict resoluon, and advance

the selement of conict worldwide. For moreinformaon visit: hp://www.jamsadr.com.

Associaon for Conict Resoluon (ACR) - Twogroups within the ACR have collaborated to makethis calendar a reality.

ACR Conict Resoluon Day Commiee. Conict

Resoluon Day is held annually on the third Thursday in

October. It was conceived in 2005 by ACR to: Promote

awareness of mediaon, arbitraon, conciliaon and other

creave, peaceful means of resolving conict; Promote the

use of conict resoluon in schools, families, businesses,

communies, governments and the legal system; Recognize

the signicant contribuons of (peaceful) conict resolver;

and Obtain naonal synergy by having celebraons happenacross the country and around the world on the same day.

You can get involved by vising hp://www.acrnet.org/

crday.

ACR Educaon Secon is an extension of the former

Naonal Associaon for Mediaon in Educaon. The

secon has a long legacy of bringing educators and conict

resoluon trainers and praconers together to promote

conict resoluon in educaonal sengs.

Find out more at hp://www.mediate.com/acreducaon .

Conict Resoluon Educaon in Teacher Educaon(CRETE) iniave. CRETE is a collaboraon ofuniversies, agencies and conict resoluon educaon

organizaons dedicated to infusing conict resoluoneducaon and social and emoonal learning into

teacher educaon. Visit the project website

hp://www.creducaon.org for more informaon and

useful resources.

About The Theme:

Our 2011-2012 Calendar Theme is Holisc Health and Wellness, signaling our belief that being

happy, healthy and whole is not possible without understanding conict and construcvely

managing our responses to it. Few things more clearly demonstrate the undeniable connecon

between mind, body and spirit than our experience of conict and our reacons to it. This

years calendar supports an awareness of this linkage and promotes posive acon in all

three realms. Each month, you will nd acvies designed to connect mind, body and spirit,

emphasizing the value of calming ones mind by bringing awareness to the body and breath.

Look for the mind/body/spirit icon:

About The Sponsors

We would like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors for supporng the 3rd edion of this calendar.
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A 2010 WinnerBrooklyn A.Grade 6 - 8

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arcipate in the third annual Conict Resoluon

Day Poetry Contest!

Students are invited to submit a poem on the theme:

Demonstrang Respect at home in school, or in the community

Examples may include Gaining respect peacefully Showing consideraon when we disagree Importance of respect Connecng peace and respect Peaceful conict resoluon when we are disrespected

What it feels like to be respected

Win Cash Prizes!!!

1st Place in each category wins $100

2nd Place in each category wins $75

All Poems must be submied in English with a maximum of 20 Lines.

Full contest rules and addional informaon about conict

resoluon available at hp://www.acrnet.org/crday.

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CR Day Poetry ContestSponsored by ACR International

Accepting Entries Oct 1 to Nov 1, 2011Morning, Evening, Night

Somemes peace is like the morning.

Everybody gets a fresh start.

Just as the sun comes up to greet us,

And the moon says farewell,

We call out to peace for our part.

Likewise, peace is like the evening.

Everyone has a chance to reect.

When you talk things out,

Listen to each other,

Your heart will come to respect.

Finally, peace is like the night.

All of us can quietly rest.

Dreaming of unity,

Free of distress,

This hope, our everlasng quest

2010 2nd Place Winner, Grade 6-8Addional Winning Poem on Jan. Calendar page.

Celebrate Conict Resolution Day -- October 20, 2011

SETTING THE TONE FOR THE YEAR.Making CR Education a regular part of group life.

Plan community-building acvies. The acvies can focus on themes of

understanding emoons, communicaon, diversity and more.

Set expectaons. Develop classroom/ group rules together using posive

language. Discuss consequences. Follow-through consistently.

Use cooperave groupings and promote cooperave acvies. Establish a problem-solving process and encourage its use in interpersonal

interacons. Establish a cool o corner as the problem-solving area with

process posted.

Introduce daily or weekly meengs for community-building, teachable mo-

ments, planning and problem solving. Use a topic box to invite topics.

Encourage expression of feelings through daily check-ins, regular evalua-

ons of acvies and self-evaluaons.

Teach acve listening and have students pracce in pairs.

And always encourage and acknowledge group members posive traits

and contribuons.

Source: The Ohio Commission on Dispute Resoluon and Conict Management

Prize money for the poetry contest has been graciously provided by the ACR Greater New York Chapter and the ACR Hawaii Chapter.
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Every journey starts with a single step. This acvity is a great way to open a

dialogue about conict with any group of any age. Exploring percepons about

conict oers a rich springboard for other acvies found in this calendar and in

the web resources listed throughout.

1. Write conict on the board and ask the group if they know what that word

means. (If they need help, explain that it is disagreement and give a

few age-appropriate examples.)2. Ask the class: What do you think of when you hear

the word conict?

3. Have the class brainstorm all the associaons they

have with the word conict. List their ideas on the

board or create a web chart.

4. Conduct a class discussion using the following ques-

ons:

Which words are negave? Which are posive?

Which are neutral?

Why do you think there are more negave wordsabout conict than posive or neutral ones?

Describe a conict youve had. Would you say it was

posive or negave?

Can anyone describe a conict that ended in a posive

way (where everyone involved felt good at the end or

things changed for the beer as a result)?

Excerpted from Elementary Perspecves: Teaching Concepts of Peace

and Conict by William J. Kreidler. hp://bit.ly/pKA8xr

Featured Date : Sept. 21 Internaonal Day of Peace

Since its incepon in 1982, the Internaonal Day ofPeace has served as a reminder of our permanent commitment to

peace, above all interests and dierences of any kind. It provides an

opportunity for individuals, organizaons and naons to create praccal acts of

peace on a shared date. hp://www.cultureofpeace.com/calendar/peaceday/ngo/

index.htm

Let Music Lead the Way: Playing calm music or nature sounds has a

posive eect on the brain and body, can lower blood pressure, and

reduce corsol, a hormone linked to stress. Take a break and listen to

cello master Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach, Pacabel etc. Consider having classical music

or nature sounds playing in the room as students enter to create a calming atmo-

sphere or take a few minutes for yourself in the middle of the day with your Ipod

to nd your inner beat. For more ideas go to:hp://bit.ly/healthline123 .

Being reecve, mindful and purposeful about our intenons before we embark

upon a shared endeavor is what this acvity is about. Seng intenons can allow

a group to reach beyond its expectaons. Intenonally intending to do ones best

-- is a powerful step to reaching that goal, especially for a group. Try this acitv-

ity when you want to set a posive tone and special feeling among group

members.

Begin by asking, What does the word intenon mean? Then discuss

the power of intenons to shape and guide our acons.

Invite students/parcipants to clarify and share their intenons for

the year, the group, the day, or the acvity (whichever is most appro-

priate). Have fun with this idea by creang your own special ritual.

Unl you do, here is one way to do this:

1.Place a pitcher of water, empty bowl and small cup together in the

center of the space where your group will gather.

2. Have the group form a large circle in this area, with these

arcles at the center.

3. Explain that the group is gathered to give voice to theirindividual intenons, hear their classmate/colleagues intenons

about this ancipated shared endeavor, and experience the

wholeness and power of the groups combined intenons.

4. Standing in the center of the circle, model the ritual by

pouring water from the pitcher into the cup. Then speak your

intenon for this year/acvity/meeng/project over the water

and to the group. Then pour the water from the cup into the

bowl.

5. Invite parcipants to do the same.

6.As each person follows, the bowl lls with the water that carries all the inten-ons; the water mingles and mixes.

7. Keep the bowl in a prominent place as the group works, as a reminder of the

groups intenons.

8. At the end of the session, ask the group whether they realized their intenons.

Then, pour the water (from the bowl) over a plant or landscaping that will

benet from the special water.

Source: Marina Piscolish, PhD MAPping Change, LLC Hawaii,hp://www.mappingchange.com.

Featured CRELearningResource: How to Use Class Meengs Available

online or for download at:hp://creducaon.org/cre/goto/mtgs.

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Labor Day

Autumn Equinox

Rosh Hashanah(Jewish)

September 28-30

InternationalDay of Peace

Literacy Day

Family Day in Canada

Citizenship DayPreserve the OzoneLayerDay

JAMS Foundation http://www.jamsadr.com/

Conict ResolutionPioneerMary Parker FollettBorn 1868

Brazilian EducatorPaulo FreireBorn 1921

Patriot Day- inhonor of 9/11/2001

Moon FestivalChinese &Vietnamese Holiday

UN InternationalDay of Democracy

Constitution Day

NationalGrandparents Day

POW/MIARecognition Day

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SaturdaySunday

World Maritime Day

It isnt enough to talk about peace, one must believe in it.And, it isnt enough to believe in it, one must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
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This is an exercise about discovering ones personal power. In any conict, thereare things you cant control. However, there are always things you CAN controland knowing what they are and how to use them is a fundamental and powerful

CR tool.

Have students prepare a group presentaon to teach the 10 things they cancontrol in a conict. This will help everyone remember them in even a stress-ful conict situaon.

1. Your Plan for the Future Knowing what you want in the future helps you look

past the current situaon and focus beyond temporary problems.

2. Your Perspecve Choose to change how you look at it. Stop and reassess

your point of view. Find a learning opportunity in the situaon.

3. Your Responses No maer what the other person is doing, you can choose to

control your responses.

4. Your Investment Spend less me thinking about it, talking about it, and en-

gaging in it.

5. Your Role in the Conict Ask yourself, What have I said or done, or not said

or done, that has kept this conict going? If it takes two to tango and youreno longer willing to dance, the conict has no choice but to diminish.

6. Your Expectaons When your expectaons dont t the situaon, change

your expectaons. Change, not lower. Is it possible that your expectaons are

what are causing your frustraon and the conict to connue?

7. Your Energy Unresolved conict (and unresolved emoons!) can be a black

hole for energy. Look for a dierent outlet for your aenon and put your

energy there.

8. Your Own Story Give an account without elevang or vicmizing anyone.

Consider an honest but hopeful response such as, Its a dicult me right

now, but Im learning a valuable lesson about expectaons, rather than, Yet

again Im the vicm and no one cares.

9. Your Method for Processing Emoons Find a construcve way to process

whats happening. Talking with a mentor, family member, friends, clergy, or a

therapist can be helpful. Keeping a journal, wring leers youll never send,

a vigorous workout, or even slinging rocks at the tree in the backyard are all

producve ways to process your emoons and perspecve about an otherwise

unproducve situaon.

10. Your Character No one can make you do anything. When you say, He just

makes me so (ll in the blank) that I had to (ll in whatever terrible response

or acon you took), youre giving the other person control over your moral -

ber. Take personal responsibility and dont give anyone else the power to makeyou behave in a way that is unbecoming, unethical, or dishonorable. Show

your best side and not an unchecked series of poor reacons.

From: Conict Resoluon at Work for Dummies, by Vivian Sco, [email protected]

Featured Date: Oct. 20 Conict Resoluon DayConict Resoluon Day was conceived in 2005 by ACR to:

Promote awareness of mediaon, arbitraon, conciliaon and

other creave, peaceful means of resolving conict

Promote the use of conict resoluon in schools, families, businesses, commu-

nies, governments and the legal system

Recognize the signicant contribuons of (peaceful) conict resolvers; and

Obtain naonal synergy by having celebraons happen across the country and

around the world on the same day.

Get involved by vising hp://www.acrnet.org/crday.

Calming Through Visualizaon

Visualizing about nature is known to calm the mind and can work wonders

in anger management. You can conduct this acvity in a group or one to

one. Ask parcipants to close their

eyes and relax. Paint a mental image for the

group by calmly describing a beauful, relax-

ing, refreshing scene. Talk about anything

from nature that evokes peaceful calm

such as mountains, a river, a beach, a for-

est etc. Ask them to visualize the scene

as you lead them through it. If possible,

weave a story around the imagery to

which the group can relate.

Source: Aastha Dogra

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Featured Resources:

PBS Teachers, Themac Teaching: Conict Resoluon Acvity Ideas,

hp://to.pbs.org/crteachingideas

hp://to.pbs.org/whenfriendsght

hp://bit.ly/workingoutconicts

For kids: Do You Want To Play? A Book About Being Friends by Bob Kolar;

For adults: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel

Simmons

10 ThingsYou Can Control In a Conflict

RainbowbyAnandJadhav

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Columbus Day

Halloween

World Teachers Day

ConictResolution Day3rd Thurs in Oct

International MusicDayVegetarian Day

World Animal Day

Intergeneration DayChild Health Day

World Habitat Day

Make a DifferenceDayUN World Food Day

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Nonviolence ActivistMahatma GandhiBorn 1869

Yo m K i p p u r O c t 7 - 8(Jewish)

Global Learn Day Thanksgiving inCanada

Martin Luther King Jr.awarded Nobel PeacePrize 1964

Statue of Liberty125th Anniversary

of Dedication inNYC Harbor

JAMS Foundation: http://www.jamsadr.com/

Deomocracy Day

Diwali - Festival of Lights(Hindu)

HumanitarianPresident Jimmy CarterBorn 1924

Human Rights Advocate& First Lady,Eleanor RooseveltBorn 1884

War protester& SongwriterJohn LennonBorn 1940

Unless both sides win,no agreement can be permanent.

- Jimmy Carter
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The way one sees, understands, and feels abouta situaon makes up his/her point

of view. Oen we make the mistaken assumpon that others share or should

share our own POV. In reality, we all see and feel in our own unique way. We may

not agree with anothers POV. Some of the things that shape our POVs are:

Where and how we have grown up,

What experiences we have had,

What we have learned from others.

Autograph Exercise: This exercise encouragesstudents to get to know one another and tolay the groundwork for understanding POVs.

Several days before doing this exercise have each

student give you a fact about him/herself that

no one else knows and that s/he is willing to

share with the group. Type these facts into a

numbered list, leaving a blank aer each fact

with enough room for the owners autograph.Make enough copies for everyone.

Pass out the sheets to the students and give them

10 minutes to walk around the room and see how many people

they can match with the facts. When they nd a match they get that persons

autograph.

Debrief this exercise by asking how many matches were made; if there were any

surprises; and what role assumpons played in this exercise.

Excerpted from Conict, Resoluon and Diversity by E.J. DeBenede

Feel Your HeartYoga helps people of all ages focus, relax and be mentally alert. Gra-

tude engenders a posive outlook. Take 5 or 10 minutes out of your

day to do this yoga-inspired exercise with your students. Bring yourself

back into your body and connect with your breath and your heart by

sing with your hands over the center of the chest, with closed eyes, and breath-

ing through the nose. Let go of everything else. Feel your heart beang and

appreciate the work it does for you every moment. Thank your heart, and feel it

thank you back!

From Radiant Child Yoga, URL: hp://bit.ly/hOyE6g

Being able to center yourself when you are under stress or in a conict is a veryimportant tool to avoid escalang a conict further, and to free you to use skills for

successfully resolving it.

Points of View can be hard to see when obscured with emoon. This oen is the

case in conicts about polics, religion or issues of morality. Having skills to de-

construct a conict to reveal the needs, values and beliefs underneath all sides

of an issue is a crical skill for resolving any conict. It is especially important for

cizens in a democracy.

In this acvity, assign students to study a polical or moral issue and have themanalyze at least two opposing points of view. To fully understand these points

of view, encourage students to research the subject including interviewing real

people and reading relevant editorials.

Next, have students create a poster for each POV - capturing the key points.. Then,

have them use the poster as a visual aid as they take turns explaining the needs,

beliefs or values it represents. Make sure that students/parcipants understand

that they arent supposed to explain what theythink about the issue, but to pro-

vide an objecve and fair account of the POV of others.

By: Gwen DeWar, PhD.

Featured Date November 8 Pacist Dorothy Day was born in 1897 inBrooklyn, New York. Dorothy Day was a pacist and a social worker. Co-

founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, she advocated for social and

economic jusce. She traveled the United States caring for the poor and

homeless. Throughout her life she worked for womens and workers rights and

the peace movement. She is a winner of the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom

Award, the Gandhi Peace Award and is a member

of the Naonal Womens Hall of Fame.

Featured Resource - Peacebuilding Toolkit

The U.S. Instute of Peace released a new

Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators this fall.With separate edions for middle school and

high school levels, the toolkit is designed to sup-

port teachers eorts to bring global peacebuilding

themes into their classrooms through interacve

lessons that promote skills and understanding and

that empower young people as peacebuilders.

Visitwww.buildingpeace.org to download the tool-

kit and to nd a range of new educaonal resources

and interacve opportunies for students and

educators.

Understanding Point ofView(POV)

Resolve to Be Open Minded

Activity:PoliticalPosters(POV)

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Peace cannot be kept by orce,it can only be achieved through understanding.

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Acve listening is really the applicaon of the Golden Rule and perhaps themost crical skill for resolving conict. To know how to listen to someoneelse, think about how you would want to be listened to. While the ideas are

largely intuive, it might take some pracce to develop (or re-develop) the skills.

Let your body language show you are listening through your:

Facial expressions

GesturesEye Contact

Posture

Do not interrupt, oer advice or give suggesons.

Do not bring up similar feelings or problems from your own experience.

Dont take sides.

Paraphrase the persons most important thoughts and feelings.

Make sure people understand it is okay to have these feelings.

Put yourself in the other persons place to understand what the person is saying

and how they feel.

Excerpted from The Mediaon Network of North Carolina

Featured Resource:

USIP Naonal Peace

Essay Contest

Each year over 1,100

high school students submit

entries to the Naonal

Peace Essay Contest.

First-place state winners

receive scholarships of

up to $10,000! and are

invited to Washington

DC for a ve-day, expenses paid

awards program.

This years topic is The Impact of New Media on

Peacebuilding and Conict Management. To parcipate,

students are asked to answer the following queson:

How can new media best be leveraged to help build peace and prevent conict?

USIP Naonal Peace Essay Contest Entry Deadline February 1, 2012For more informaon about the essay contest, including a study guide,visit

hp://www.usip.org/npec.

Acve listening and the use of quesons are essenalto resolving conicts.

Open-ended quesons are helpful when you want someone to open up and give

you as much informaon as possible.

Incorporate acve listening by repeang back important informaon and

feelings to make sure you got it and the person you are listening to feels heard.

Here are a few open-ended quesons to get you started:

Howwouldyoudescribe? Howdidthisproblembegin? Howdoyoufeelabout? Whathappenedinthissituation? Howdidyourespondwhen? Canyouexplainwhatwenton? Howwouldyouliketoresolvethis? Whatcanyoudotoworkthisout?

Featured Date - December 16- Reconciliaon Day in South Africa.Reconcile means to re-establish friendly relaons aer a conict.

Reconciliaon changed South Africa...and South Africas eorts to forgive

and to heal as a naon changed the world!

Yogas benets include: sllness, balance, exibility, focus, peace, grace, connecon,

health, and well-being. It pairs perfectly with conict resoluon educaon. When

teaching yoga to kids it can be challenging to keep their aenon. Here are some ideas

to make the experience posve for everyone. Children will jump at the chance to assume the role

of animals, trees, owers, warriors. Your role is to step back and allow them to bark in the dog

pose, hiss in the cobra, and meow in cat stretch. They can also recite the ABCs or 123s as they are

holding poses. Sound is a great release for children and adds an auditory dimension to the physicalexperience of yoga.

As they perform the various animal and nature asanas, engage their minds to deepen their

awareness. When theyre snakes, invite them to really imagine that theyre just a long spine with

no arms and legs. Could you sll run or climb a tree? In Tree Pose ask them to imagine being a giant

oak, with roots growing out of the booms of their feet. Could you stay in the same posion for 100

years? If you were to be chopped down, would that be OK? Would it hurt?

This helps to make a connecon between the macrocosm of our environment and the microcosm of

our bodies. The importance of reverence for all life and the principle of interdependence becomes

apparent. Children begin to understand that we are all made of the same stu. Were just in

dierent forms.Source: Marsha Wenig Yoga for Kids hp://www.yogajournal.com

Resolve to Ask Good Questions

Active Listening & Body Language ActiveListening&OpenEndedQuestions

Body

Mind

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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahouz

United NationsAnti-Corruption Day

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World AIDS Day End SlaveryDay

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This acvity gives parcipants pracce with paraphrasing and acvelistening.1. Sit on the oor in one large circle. Explain that everyone will share

his/her name and something about himself/herself. Give everyone

a minute to privately prepare a response.

2. Have one person start by sharing his/her name and something

about himself/herself. Then have the student hold on to the end

of a ball of yarn and roll it to another person in the circle.3. The person who catches the ball of yarn restates the name of the person who

rolled them the yarn and what the rst person shared about himself/herself. Then this

second person states his/her own name, something about himself/herself and rolls

the ball of yarn to the next person.

4. Have everyone connue this process unl all have shared.

Oponal: With each holding the yarn, stand up/kneel in place to fully reveal the spider-

web. Talk about ways we are connected to one another; how communicaon strengthens

our human web.

Source: CRE Calendar Editorial Team, Adapted from a popular CR acvity. Original author, unknown.

This is an experienal acvity that helps students/parcipants understand the feeling ofbeing excluded or of excluding others, and it provides an opportunity to pracce groupproblem solving. It is eecve with upper elementary students through adults.

Ask four volunteers to leave the room. Because these four, the outsiders, will be temporarily

excluded from the group they must be willing volunteers.

Ask the rest of the group, the insiders, to make two circles, standing shoulder to shoulder.

Tell them to pretend that they all are going to a party; however, the outsiders who le theroom are not invited. When the outsiders return to the room, they will try to get into one of

the circles so that they may be included in the party plans. The inside people are not to let

the outsiders in. They may not use force, but may ignore the outside people. (As a variaon

the inside people may be told that they must listen to the outside people before making up

their minds.)

Tell the outside people the instrucons that were given to the inside people before leng

them back into the room to try to get into the circle. Assign two outside people to each

circle. Give them about ve minutes. (As a variaon repeat the exercise with four dierent

volunteers.)

Aer compleng the acvity, form one large circle and ask the outsiders what it felt like tobe outside. Ask the insiders what it felt like to be inside. Then discuss who might feel like an

insider or an outsider in real life, and how it aects people to be inside or outside of a group.

Source: Conict Resoluon and Diversity by Ellen J. DeBenede,

Acvity adapted from an acvity contributed by John Salvato, Bayside, NY

Featured Date - January 27, 1994 Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Irish peace

acvist, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Corrigan became involved

in the peace movement aer three of her sisters children were killed

as innocent bystanders in an incident between Brish troops and an IRA

member. She co-founded Women for Peace and received the Nobel Peace Prize

in 1976.

Featured Resource Great Collecon of Online Videos related to CRE,

hp://www.creducaon.org/cre/teachers/online_videos/

Spider Web...To Reconnectin the New Year Inside/Outside

CR Day PoetryContest 1stPlace WinnerLeah A.Grade 6 -8

Resolve to...Be Caring & Compassionate

MARYLAND MEDIATION& CONFLICT

RESOLUTION OFFICECR Day Bookmark

Contest Winner

Nikki Lytle, Gr 6

Imagine Individuals Living Harmoniously

Perhaps we can have a world where

Everyone would treat each other with respect

Accepng ethnic, religious, and

Cultural dierences while

Embracing various ideals

Imagine Individuals Living Harmoniously in

Neighborhoods rich with diversity

Mobilizing for a just cause

Yearning for posive change

Caring, showing acts of kindness and

Oering a helping hand

Meaningful deeds done with compassion

Meeng the needs of others

Understanding in giving we receive

Not seeking anything in returnImagine individuals living harmoniously

Together seng a ne example and

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Nuclear DisarmamentAdvocateAlbert Schweitzer

Born 1875

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World Religion Day

One Day in PeaceDay

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Help students idenfy acts of discriminaon and explore ways to safelystand up against discriminaon. You will need chart paper, markersand the Dont Discriminate worksheet. See: hp://bit.ly/dontdiscriminate123.

Have students pretend that someone made the decision that everyone

who is wearing sneakers today will not be allowed to eat lunch in the

cafeteria (or perhaps will be allowed to eat in some other locaon oncampus that is desirable to students, i.e., outside).

1. Discuss answers to the following with a partner:

In this situaon, how would you feel if you were wearing sneakers?

Is it reasonable for someone to decide where people can eat lunch

based on what theyre wearing?

What if it was decided that only students who were wearing boots

could eat in the desired locaon, and you were wearing boots but

your best friend wasnt?

What feelings would you have?

2. As a class, discuss the following:

If you were the one being discriminated against, what would you

do?

What would you do if you saw another person being discriminated

against? A stranger? A classmate? A friend?

3. Now read Dont Discriminate to learn about real-life examples of dis-

criminaon and how people stood up against it. What are some other

ways they could safely stand up against discriminaon?

4. Check out the website above for more ideas, like

In small groups, write skits illustrang 1) an act of discriminaon

and 2) how people stand up against it. Perform the skits.

In large or small group, ask students to create a shared record of

their reacons to this experience, without speaking. Provide chart

paper, a blank wall mural or the chalkboard.

Each records a thought, feeling or queson with wrien words or

images. More than one person may write at a me. Once everyone

has had a chance to contribute, dialogue about what it reveals.

They may draw lines to connect related comments and answers to

quesons.From: Teaching Tolerance, A project of the Southern Law Poverty Center,hp://www.tolerance.org.

Featured Date February 1 Naonal Freedom Day

The Bill of Rights was a tremendous milestone in the pursuit of free-dom for all, and yet when our naon was founded, not all Ameri-cans were allowed to be free. Slavery is the ulmate loss of freedom,

and it was nearly 100 years before Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amend -

ment to the Constuon - nally abolishing slavery. Naonal Freedom Day com-

memorates this momentous occasion on February 1, 1865.

Featured Resource: CREducaon.org An-Bias Educaon Collecon

in the CRE Catalog - Seehp://snipurl.com/anbias .

Childs Pose is a simple relaxaon posion in yoga. In this pose, have

everyone posion their bodies facing the oor in a fetal posion. The

knees and hips are bent, shins on the oor. The chest rests on the

knees. The head is stretched forward to-

wards the ground with the forehead touching the

ground. Stretch the arms forward in front, imagin-

ing you can touch the wall on the far side of the

room or backwards towards the feet. Relax into

the pose. Deepen your stretch and focus on your

breath. Hold for two minutes. See how refreshed you feel.

Standing UpAgainstDiscrimination

Resolve to Do The Right Thing

Body

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Women & Girls

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None o us alone can save the nation or world.But each o us can make a positive diference i we commit ourselves to do so.

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Students are not at their best for learning or resolving conicts when they areexperiencing stress. The objecve of this acvity is to idenfy situaons thatcause feelings of stress, and to determine and discuss posive, healthy ways to

cope with stressful situaons.

Discuss with students the denion of stress.

1. Explain that stress can cause powerful feelings, as well as biological changes in

the body.

2. Have students brainstorm feelings and biological changes that stress can

cause.

Responses typically relate to the ght or ight theory of stress response.

For useful informaon see: Gender Dierences in Behavioral Responses

to Stress and/or The Fascinang History of

Stress Theory.

3. Divide class into six groups.

4. Posion each group in an area of the

classroom and tape a sheet of poster

board to the wall by each group. Each

poster should feature one of the head-

ings below:

SituationsthatMakeMeAngrySituationsthatFrustrateMeSituationsthatMakeMeWorrySituationsthatMakeMeHappySituationsthatTakeaLotofTimeSituationsthatTakeMoney5. Tell each group they have 1-2 minutes to write down their responses.

6. Aer 2 minutes, have students rotate to the poster to their right and add their

comments for the heading on the poster.

7. Connue rotang unl each group has added to the other 5 posters.

8. Have a reporter from each group read the responses on the poster in front of

them.

9. Discuss similaries and insights.

10. Discuss which responses alleviate or create stress.

11. Have students return to their seats. As a class, brainstorm appropriate and

healthy strategies to cope with the stressful situaons.

Adapted From: Educaon World, Teacher Lesson Plans, hp://bit.ly/strikingoutstress123.

Adapted from Teaching Ideas, Chill Skills For KS1, hp://bit.ly/chillskills123 .

Featured Date - March 19-23.

Naonal Youth Violence Prevenon Week

The goal is to raise awareness on eecve ways to prevent or

reduce youth violence.

This weeklong naonal educaon iniave will involve acvies that

demonstrate the posive role young people can have in making their school

and community safer. The campaign website,hp://www.nyvpw.org,

serves as the crossroads to the campaign and provides countless resources

to prepare for the event, including the ocial campaign Acon Kit thatserves as a step-by-step planning guide, suggesons for how each sector

of the community can support the campaign, acvity ideas, links to over

40 naonal organizaons sponsoring the event, arcles and interviews on

violence prevenon, and much, much more!

Featured Resource:

PBS Teachers, Themac Teaching: Conict Resoluon Acvity Ideas,

hp://to.pbs.org/crteachingideas .

StrikingOutStress - forMiddle & High School Students

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Resolve toStress Less

Bubble BreathsImagine you are

blowing up a large

bubble. Take in a

deep breath, and

steadily and slowly blow up

your huge bubble. See the

bubble geng bigger and big-

ger and bigger. Now close your

eyes and imagine the bubble

oang into the air. As youstand there, feel yourself be-

coming very quiet and peace-

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Daylight SavingsTime Begins

End Racism Day

St. Patricks Day

Energy Day


N a t i o n a l Yo u t h V i o l e n c e P r e v e n t i o n ~ W e e k M a r c h 1 9 - 2 3

World Day For Water

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday SaturdayFridayMarch 2012Nobel Peace PrizeWinnerYitzhak RabinBorn 1922

Civil Rights ActivistCesar ChavezBorn 1927

Read Across AmericaDayDr SeussBorn 1904

N a t i o n a l S c h o o l B r e a k f a s t W e e k M a r c h 5 - 9

Absolutely IncredibleKid DayIdes of MarchShakespeare

New Year(Hindu)

Chavez Day

N a t i o n a l F o r e i g n L a n g u a g e W e e k ~ M a r c h 5 - 1 1

Albert Einstein1879

Womens History MonthNational Nutrition Month

Music in Our Schools MonthInternationalWomens DayHoli (Hindu)

Chotrul DuchenFesitval of Miracles(Buddist)

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

~Winston Churchill
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had a quarrel, as it occasionally happens ina marriage. One word led to another, and suddenly Prince Albert angrily lethe bedroom, went to his study, slammed the door and locked it. Queen Victoria

ran aer him, knocked on the door and demanded, Open! There was no answer.

She pounded the door with her st and shouted, Open at once!! No answer.

She shouted at the top of her voice, I am the Queen of England, Scotland, Wales

and Ireland, the Empress of India and of the enre Brish Commonwealth, I amthe Commander-in-Chief of all the Brish armed forces, and I order you hereby to

open this door!!! No answer.

Finally she said in a so voice, Albert, I am sorry, I love you and miss you. The

door then opened. This shows that nonviolence can be more powerful than

violence.

This is a true story that appeared in a Swiss newspaper many years ago.

Submied by Dietrich Fischer

This acvity is about learning to avoid emoonal volcanic erupons and their

consequences. Learning to control emoons

takes intenon, planning and pracce.

Ask students, How is anger like a volcano? What

kind of trouble can come from losing control of

your anger?

Teach this three-step process for regaining

control.

THINK - what happened, what did you do,

what is going on?

FEEL - name your emoons, whats going

on inside of you?

RESPOND - Use the informaon you came

up with while thinking and feeling to choose

a nonviolent, appropriate reacon.

Ask, Can you think of a me when you didnt

manage your emoons well and let the volcano

erupt? How could you have handled thesituaon dierently?

Source: Wingsforkids, hp://www.wingsforkids.org/les/HotWINGS-volcano.pdf

The World Pledge is not a substute for the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, but rather,a supplement... a reminder to care for the planet on which we live, the peoplewho inhabit it, and the ecosystem of which we are a part.

Source: Lilian Gesner, Center for Peace and

Conict Studies, Wayne State University.

Posters and guides available at:

hp://snipurl.com/wpledge .

Featured CREducaon.org

Resource:

Cyberbullying & Relaonal Aggression:

Who is it & What Can be Done?

Presented by: Kimberly Mason, Laura Hammel,

Amanda K. Brace, Rachel A. Vitale at the Second

Internaonal Summit on Conict Resoluon

Educaon March 29, 2008. For more informaon go to hp://bit.ly/cyberbullying123.

Featured Calendar Date - Earth Day - Sunday, April 22, 2012Earth Day, rst celebrated in 1970, is the perfect opportunity to get

people to tap into the beer world movement and nd the inspiraon to

pursue acvies for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world all year

long. Whats your ecological passion? How does that passion show

in your acons?

Anger Art: Have students paint, color or draw a picture that represents

things that make them angry, how they feel before and aer they

are angry, and any other issues they might be dealing with. In a safe

environment, they might draw something that gives you beer insights

to deal with their anger.Source: Jae Ireland ~ URL: hp://www.livestrong.com/arcle/28332

Activity: Human Volcano

Resolve to Manage Your Emotions

Body

Mind

Spirit

Celebrate Earth Day - WorldPledge

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I Pledge Allegiance to the World,

To Care for Earth and Sea and Air,

To Cherish Every Living Thing,

With Peace and Justice Everywhere!

ThePower of Nonviolent Communicaon

Ionis world by Dimitris Papazimouris

Islands of the Cyclops at Dawn by gnuckx

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Indian-AmericanNonviolence Activist

Arun GandhiBorn 1934

American NaturalistJohn MuirBorn 1838

Civil Rights LeaderCoretta Scott KingBorn 1927

Baisakhi(Sikh)Easter(Christian)

Thomas JeffersonBorn 1743

International Dance Day

National Day of SilenceEnd LGBT bullying inschools

HolocaustRememberanceDay

National StressAwareness Day

E n v i r o n m e n t a l E d u c a t i o n W e e k ~ A p r i l 1 5 - 2 1

I we have no peace,it is because we have orgotten that we belong to each other.

- Mother eresa

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Buddhas Birthday

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Animal Cruelty Prevention Month
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When you need to tell someone something that might be dicult forthem to hear, or when you want to iniate a conversaon around aconict, try using asserve speaking by doing this:

Think before you speak

Say what you mean and mean what you say

Separate facts from feelings

Focus on the acon that occurred - not your interpretaon Tell the other person what you want as opposed to what you dont want

CRE Resource: Calendar of Acve Nonviolence celebrates peopleor events in acve nonviolence each day of the year, with an especially

prominent leader or organizaon noted for each month.

hp://www.nonviolence.quakers.org.au/

Featured Date May 3Jordanian Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, born 1974

The United Naons Messenger of Peace is the highest honor bestowed

on a global cizen by

the United Naons Secretary-

General to raise awareness and

support for eorts to address

poverty, hunger and other pressing

problems. Princess Haya advocates

for the rights of children and

underprivileged communies to

have access to food, healthcare,

educaon and security.hp://www.princesshaya.net/&

United Naons Messenger of Peace

Here is a chance to pracce the asserve speaking, acve listening andcreave problem solving skills that you have been teaching/learningover the past several months. For each of the following role plays, name

the two characters in a role play (see below) and have paired parcipants

choose roles. Read the conict scenario involving the two characters and

tell parcipants they have 3 minutes to role play it. When the me is up,

go around the circle and have parcipants demonstrate for the class theirI-messages, their acve listening and the proposed soluon. Scenarios:

Two children: Two children are ghng over a pencil. One accuses the

other of stealing the pencil. The accused says she brought the pencil

from home.

Teacher and student: Money has been stolen from a teachers desk.

A student named Pat was in the oce alone just before the teacher

noced the money missing.

Two students: Two boys are shoong hoops at lunch. One accuses the

other of hogging the ball.

Teacher and student: Halfway through direcons for the lesson, the

teacher noces that one child is not wring anything. The teacher

noces the child does not have a pencil. This has happened several

mes before.

Teacher and student: School

rules forbid talking during re

drills. One student sees water

on the oor and warns the

others. The teacher hearsthe student talking and

reprimands her in front of

everyone.

Discuss how parcipants felt

in their roles. Ask which of

the dierent soluons they

liked the best or which soluon was the most

respecul of everyone or the best nonviolent soluon.

Adapted from The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet, Prutzman, et.al.Marsha [email protected].

Resolve toThink Before You Speak

Assertive Speaking

Speak Asservely Using An I - Message

A. I FEEL... State how you feel

B. WHEN... State the problem (using non-oensive, factual language)

C. BECAUSE... State why you feel this way

D. WHAT I WISH/WANT IS... make a request that sases the problem.

Example

A. I FEEL frustrated

B. WHEN you talk while Im talkingC. BECAUSE what Im saying is important and I need to be certain that you hear it.

D. PLEASE let me nish sharing and I then you can tell me your side of the story.

Quick Decision RolePlay

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