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The Nurtured Heart Approach is an amazing set of strategies developed specifically for children with ADHD and other challenging behaviors to facilitate parenting and classroom success.
These methods have helped thousands of families to transform their child from using their intensity in primarily negative ways to using their intensity in beautifully creative and constructive ways. This approach has also helped
teachers and other school personnel to have a dramatically positive effect on all children.
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 Alfie Kohn
Number One MUST read for all Teachers and Parents in my opinion!
Links to his books; Beyond Discipline:From Compiance to Community, No Contest:The Case
Against Competition, Punished By Rewards, The Schools Our Children Deserve:
Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards". There are also many articles offered online for Parents, Teachers and Managers, along with
a schedule of his Lectures. A WONDERFUL site if you're wanting to rethink the how's and why's of what we do as parents and teachers, and REALLY want to find a better way to work
with children to help them reach their goals!
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 Act Against Violence
ACT--Adults and Children Together--Against Violence is a violence-prevention campaign composed of a national multimedia campaign and community-based training programs. The campaign focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach children ages 0 to 8 years. It is designed to prevent violence by providing young children with positive role models and environments that teach nonviolent problem solving.
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Alternatives to Violence Project
To empower people to lead nonviolent lives through affirmation, respect for all, community building, cooperation, and trust.
Founded in and developed from the real life experiences of prisoners and others, and building on a spiritual base, AVP encourages every person's innate power to positively transform themselves and the world.
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ADRWorld
ADRWorld.com is your single source on the World Wide Web for up-to-the-minute news on arbitration, mediation and all forms of alternative dispute resolution.
An indispensable resource for the legal community and dispute resolution practitioners, ADRWorld.com keeps you on top of the latest developments in all practice areas, and gives you instant access to legislative and regulatory developments in all 50 states and the federal government, important court opinions, and a comprehensive library of statutes, court rules and policy documents.
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Anti-bullying Project
Information for Teachers, Parents, and Kids to help stamp out bullying. Parents info includes; IS YOUR CHILD BEING BULLIED?, GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BULLYING VICTIMS, WHAT CAN PARENTS DO?,
IS YOUR CHILD A BULLY?, and WHAT CAN PARENTS OF THE BULLY DO? The Kids info includes info for elementary, middle, and high school; also on site, quiz, stories, resources and links.
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Books on Bullying
Bullies are a growing problem in our schools and neighborhoods. The Book "The Bully" addresses the issue of bullies in the school and gives helpful suggestions to both parents and children on how to deal with the stressful situation in a positive manner.
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The Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace
Peace-themed projects for schools and information about student peer meditation programs. Links to resolution sites and information on UNESCO’s 2000 effort, "The Culture of Peace.
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Charactersongs.com
Songs for kids using music to convey important messages to children about such character education traits
as honesty, kindness, integrity and patience. In addition to lots of fun music, Scott’s presentations to elementary school audiences also include stories
told by a talking hand puppet who helps further illustrate important concepts.
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Choices in Preventing Youth Violence
From the Institute for Urban and Minority Education Teachers College, Columbia University;
The Choices Initiative is designed to help schools and communities working alone and together to design and implement flexible programs responsive to the needs of their community, and then to evaluate the programs in a meaningful way.
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CSPV-Center for Study and Prevention of Violence
Offers information about conflict resolution within the context of violence prevention. There is a special message about the Columbine incident as well as links to a number of searchable sites related to school safety.
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Colorado School Mediation Project
The Colorado School Mediation Project (CSMP), founded in 1987, is a regional nonprofit organization with national connections which is dedicated to creating safe, caring and just communities where conflicts are resolved productively and differences are valued.
CSMP works with educators, administrators, youth organizations and school communities to design, implement and evaluate a conflict resolution education program for their site.
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Conflict Resolution, Research and, Resource Institute
Conflict Resolution, Research and Resource Institute, Inc.
is a non-profit corporation dedicated to prevention, management, and peaceful resolutions of conflict.
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Conflict Research Consortium
Conflict Resolution Information Source (CRInfo) provides a comprehensive source of information on alternative strategies for dealing with the full range of human conflict (from interpersonal disputes to global thermonuclear war). CRInfo provides information of interest to disputants, intermediaries, students, researchers, and anyone else with an interest in the field.
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Conflict Resolution Education
In 1992 the Illinois State Bar Association via their Law Related Education And Resource Network (LEARN) founded the Illinois Institute for Dispute Resolution (IIDR) to support the development of conflict resolution education programs in Illinois schools.
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Conflict Resolution in Education Network
A professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution.
Our mission is promoting peaceful, effective conflict resolution.
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Conflict Resolution in the Classroom from Gigglepotz
Gigglepotz.com is an educational website which provides resources and materials for teaching and learning. Beginning in 1999, we have been writing, resources for teachers, students and parents.
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Conflict Resolution Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans from Teach-nology.com; Acting out Conflict, Childhood Conflict, Practicing Problem Solving, Resolution Vocabulary, and many more!
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Cooperative Learning Center
The Cooperative Learning Center is a Research and Training Center focusing on how students should interact with each other as they learn and the skills needed to interact effectively.
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CRInfo
A clearinghouse which provides links to, and information about, almost 5,000 other resources: websites, books, articles, organizations, programs, events, scholars, job and career opportunities, education and training programs, and lists of practitioners working in the field.
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CRU Institute - Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation
"The mission of CRU Institute is to teach young people effective, peaceful ways to resolve conflict and to develop understanding, respect, and the ability to cooperate with others in a multicultural world"
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Educators For Social Responsibility
ESR's mission is to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world.
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Ending School Violence: National Campaign to End Violence in Schools: Ribbon of Promise
We will unite the nation in an effort to end school violence by acting as a resource for communication, education, planning and action.
This is the promise behind the Ribbon of Promise National Campaign to End School Violence: that a nation united through grief, through the power of that very unity, achieve a victory over violence.
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ESR Presents Conflict Resolution
Educators for Social Responsibility's mission is to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world.
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FREE-Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.
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G.R.E.A.T. Gang Resistance, Education and Training
The Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program is designed to help children set goals for themselves, resist pressures, learn how to resolve conflicts without violence, and understand how gangs and youth violence impact the quality of their lives.
G.R.E.A.T. students discover for themselves the ramifications of gang and youth violence through structured exercises and interactive approaches to learning. Through the combined efforts of law enforcement, the schools, and the community, we can make a difference
in the lives of children across America by providing them with the necessary skills and information to say "NO" to gangs and acts of random violence.
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Institute for Conflict Resolution
The Institute on Conflict Resolution advances the knowledge and understanding of conflict resolution through research, education, and curriculum development and through the collection and dissemination of information.
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The Mendez Foundation: An Innovative Leader in Prevention Education
For over 20 years the Mendez Foundation has been effectively helping schools create safe and positive learning environments by providing award-winning curricula to teach students skills, consequences and confidence.
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Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
MINCAVA Electronic Clearinghouse provides an extensive pool of up-to-date educational resources about all types of violence, including higher education syllabi, published research, funding sources, upcoming training events, individuals or organizations which serve as resources, and searchable databases with over 700 training manuals, videos and other education resources.
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