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Peer Mediation and Bullying Prevention: Untangling a Complicated Relationship
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM (ET)
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Interpersonal conflict is a normal part of life in every school. To teach young people conflict resolution skills and empower them to resolve these disputes, educators around the world operate peer mediation programs. Decades of research has demonstrated the efficacy of peer mediation programs and the benefits they provide to students and to their schools.
At the same time, there is renewed and welcome interest in preventing bullying from occurring in schools, and effectively intervening when it does. Increasing numbers of schools are implementing, or considering implementing, comprehensive bullying prevention efforts. Bullying constitutes a class of interpersonal conflicts, however, which are typically not well served by peer mediation programs.
Educators currently struggle to integrate these two important, related, yet significantly different efforts. While the literature for both efforts provide many guidelines, real world conflicts can be messy and not fit the neat distinctions outlined in books.
A great many interpersonal conflicts, for example, involve some degree of harassment of one student by another. Might students involved in such conflicts be better served by a bullying prevention approach than by peer mediation? And is there ever a place to bring students who bully and students whom they target together? If so, should mediation or some other process be utilized?
Join Richard Cohen, founder and director of School Mediation Associates, and Amy Flemming, school psychologist at the Nock Middle School in Newburyport, Massachusetts, for an exploration of these and other important questions.
Managing both a peer mediation program and a bullying prevention effort requires a nuanced understanding of conflict, careful oversight, and a high degree of coordination among educators in a building.
“Peer Mediation and Bullying Prevention: Untangling a Complicated Relationship” will provide useful tools, sharpen your thinking, and increase your effectiveness in managing conflict and preventing bullying in your school.
The registration fee enables you to participate in the program live. It also provides ongoing access to a recording of the webinar.
Space is limited, so register early.
Log in information and password will be sent via email in advance of the program.
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Speakers:
Richard Cohen
Since founding School Mediation Associates in 1984, Richard has worked with hundreds of schools and trained over 10,000 young people and educators in a range of practical programs including peer mediation, bullying prevention, student leadership and restorative practices.
Richard’s books and e-newsletter are used by educators around the world. He has served as a Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts and at Cambridge College.
He lives with his wife and two children in Massachusetts. Richard loves music, swimming, and eating peaches.
Amy Flemming
Amy Flemming has been working in the Public Schools since 1991. A graduate of UMASS in School Psychology, she has worked in the Wellesley Public Schools, Franklin Public Schools, Framingham Public Schools and is currently employed by the Newburyport Public Schools. She co-coordinates the Nock Middle School Peer Mediation program, and has been passionately involved with peer mediation for about ten years.
Together with Patricia Bernheart, former School Psychologist at the Molin School in Newburyport, Amy is responsible for the implementation of a whole-system approach to bullying prevention.
Amy lives in the woods in Andover, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.
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