Peace Education Foundation

While many people may find our curricula user-friendly enough to implement independently, others find training a helpful enhancement. Training participants explore content more thoroughly and practice skills, which can increase their confidence and competence to implement it. If you intend to implement conflict resolution or peer mediation school-wide, training offers an opportunity to motivate and educate an entire staff, set goals, and plan for success.

Our lively, interactive training model gets high evaluations and leaves most participants enthusiastic, inspired, ready to go do it.

The typical on-site training day in the U.S. and Canada carries a minimum invoice of $2,500.00.
The all-inclusive fee simplifies details for you because it includes not only the training fee but also all our travel and lodging expenses, and one grade-specific teacher's guide (some with additional materials) for each participant. The final invoice depends on the number of participants, the materials provided, and the number of training days.

According to your budgeting and administrative requirements, we can adjust the invoice to reflect costs specifically for training or curriculum.

We can also reduce on-site training costs when you bundle it with major purchases of curricula.
Please call (305) 576-5075 or (800) 749-8838 for details and examples.

The base invoice includes up to 25 participants, based on these per-person rates:

Call (305) 576-5075 or (800) 749-8838 for details on costs for additional consecutive training days, other agendas, or follow-up training contracted with the initial training.

For Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, yes. Our minimum invoice for a training day in these counties is $1,950.00. Beyond the minimum invoice, costs are calculated at the per-participant rates stated above.

Certainly. We can train any mix of grades. It's most effective, of course, to have them as developmentally similar as possible.

If space permits, one option we've found particularly expedient for a broad range of grades, especially with groups larger than 40-50 participants, is to begin the training day with everyone together for a core presentation on issues that apply across the board — goals and overview, the role of adult modeling, peaceful classroom dynamics, and buy-in as needed. Then we train one grade-range group for about two hours, while the other leaves to take care of other necessary issues such as grading, classroom preparation or clean-up, parent conferences, etc. After lunch, we switch the groups.

Given this arrangement, not only does everyone receive the same effective amount of training time, now it's also more clearly targeted for developmental issues — and it gives teachers time to handle other essential tasks.

We have no minimum number for standard trainings. The minimum invoice of $2,500.00 (or $1,950.00 in Miami/Broward/Palm Beach counties) still applies for smaller groups. Beyond the minimum invoice, costs are calculated at the per-participant rates stated above.

By four weeks before your training date, we need you to complete and return our downloadable Materials Tally Form, specifying the quantity of each teacher's guide. (We can still adjust this later.)

For most training groups you need to provide an overhead projector and screen, VHS or DVD player and monitor (DVD must have a remote control), CD player, and a flip chart on an easel.

Our trainings are very interactive. We usually regroup the participants for small-group work, perhaps several times during the day. Accordingly, training is most effective with flexible seating, and tables of six to eight persons.

Teachers of primary grades also receive an I-Care Cat Hand Puppet. Teachers for PK, 1, and 2 also receive the companion Peacemaking Skills for Little Kids CD.

Teachers receiving the senior high WinWin! Teacher’s Guide also receive 30 WinWin! student magazines, and each school represented in the training receives one DVD or VHS.

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Do you train non-instructional staff as well?

Definitely. Everyone can benefit from conflict resolution skills. The more adults you have modeling the skills and helping students apply them, the more effectively you'll create a school culture that supports independent, responsible problem-solving.

For participants whose work does not require a teacher's guide (administrative, teacher's aides, paraprofessionals, clerical, cafeteria, etc.) the per-person cost is $75. We can even provide a training geared specifically toward noninstructional staff. Our two-hour R.I.D.E. workshop includes materials and implementation tips designed exclusively for bus drivers.

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Frankly, our staff needs help getting along before we can teach our students. Can you help?

That dynamic undergirds our standard starting point for any curriculum training: To whatever extent we expect our children to learn better problem-solving and social skills, we, the adults, have to model them. We don't have to be perfect—and we can't—but we have to set the example of working on our skills, all the same. That holds true not only at school, but also at home and in the community.

Given these concerns, we do offer a corporate Workplace Training, geared specifically toward team-building, collaboration, and social skills that make a safe and healthy work environment for adults. Starting from the primary role of the administration or management in any setting (school, for-profit or nonprofit corporation, service agency, civic group, religious institution), we explore conflict styles, problem-solving, anger management, verbal and nonverbal communication strategies, and simple mediation. This session may also include a brief introduction to crisis management.

As with our curriculum training, this workshop is very interactive and practical. We offer it primarily as an instructional and personal growth workshop that promotes healthier professional and personal relationships through information, insights, and involvement. Whereas this is not a mediation session per se, we can tailor your training day to help you and your colleagues prepare to address specific issues. We can offer strategies for applying these skills and concepts to any particular local concerns. It's up to the training group to keep working the program to improve and maintain the workplace in the long run after this. Our workshop provides a helpful, practical, and motivational starting point.

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What can we do to help involve the parents?

Ask about our Time Out! Solving Family Conflicts program. We can provide a 90-120 minute program for your parent group (typically in conjunction with an on-site curriculum training). If you'd like to have a dedicated local staff address this, we can prepare them with a one or two-day Training of Trainers specifically for this component.

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Do you offer a Training of Trainers?

Certainly. Understand first that our Training Institute in Miami and Bay City, Michigan gives participants enough background and curriculum to provide basic presentations for their local school or district.

However, if you'd like to train a core group to provide your school or district with more in-depth and long-term implementation, we'll gladly bring you our full-scale Training of Trainers. As the specifics of additional materials provided, follow-up visits, and time frames may vary substantially, the costs also range beyond the standard on-site costs stated above.

Please call (305) 576-5075 or (800) 749-8838 for more details.

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How do we schedule an on-site training?

Call us at (305) 576-5075 or (800) 749-8838 and ask to speak with a trainer. We usually need four weeks’ lead time, though we may be able to accomodate you on shorter notice. As we schedule training on a first-come first-served basis, we recommend calling well in advance if you want your workshop at the beginning or end of the school year.

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