Slides and links handout from a session by Bill Warters presented at the Peace and Justice Studies Association conference in Waterloo, Ontario on October 19, 2013.

1. CONFLICT LEARNING
DESIGNS
Resources for Teaching Peace and Conflict
Resolution in Educational Settings
Bill Warters, Wayne State University
October 18, 2013, PJSA Annual Conference, Waterloo, Ontario
http://www.creducation.org/resources/PSJA_2013_Handout_Bill_Warters.pdf

2. ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Director, MA in Dispute Resolution at Wayne
State University in Detroit!
Ph.D. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, PARC!
BA in Conflict Resolution from U.C. Santa
Cruz!
Webmaster for CREducation.org, a resource
clearninghouse for the Conflict Resolution
Education in Teacher Education (CRETE)
initiative

3. ABOUT YOU?
Teaching Venue!
Special Interests!
Degree of Tech “Savvyness”

4. ADR TECH BLOG
http://www.campus-adr.org/techblog
Since 2005!

5. CAMPUS-ADR.ORG
http://campus-adr.org
Received U.S. Dept of Ed FIPSE Grant in 2000 to
promote and support mediation in higher education

6. MEDIATION ROLEPLAYS
http://www.campus-adr.org/Training_Center/roleplaysearch/

7. MEDIATION PROGRAM
STARTUP TOOLS
Guidelines, sample forms, ideas on advertising, evaluation
http://www.campus-adr.org/CR_Services_Center/

8. CLASSROOM CONFLICT IN
SCHOOLS IS NOT NEW
In Edward Eggleston's (1871/1984) fictional work The
Hoosier Schoolmaster, novice teacher Ralph Hartsook
is warned by the trustee:!
Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what
would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know.Why
the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one
afore them like blazes....They'd pitch you out of doors,
sonny, neck and heels, afore Christmas. (p. 11) !
So began Hartsook's first year of teaching in a oneroom school in Flat Crick District during the late
1800s. So much for the idyllic past!

9. http://www.creducation.org/cre/home/about_us/about_crete

10. CRETE MISSION
CRETE works with teacher
education at pre-service and
in-service levels to develop
teachers’ critical skills in
conflict education and
classroom management.
On the web at www.creducation.org
Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation

11. CONFLICT RESOLUTION
CURRICULUM INTEGRATION
A 3-year project in the late 1990s in seven middle
schools across the nation (Louisiana, Maine, Colorado,
Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, and
California)

12. SOME RESEARCH RESULTS
A pretest-posttest control group comparison design in each
state examined the effect of teaching condition (NCIP
experienced teaching, NCIP new teaching, and control
teaching) on over a thousand seventh- and eighth-grade
students’ emotional and conflict competence (conflict
orientation, emotional management, perspective taking, and
hostile attribution) and classroom climate. !
Although the NCIP conditions did not significantly influence
emotional management, it did have positive impacts on
students’ perspective taking and use of problem-solving
strategies. NCIP has extremely strong positive impacts
on classroom climate.

13. SOME RESEARCH RESULTS
Across sites, students in NCIP classes taught by
returning, experienced NCIP teachers consistently
reported more positive climate (overall and in terms of
the dimensions of teacher support, student support,
cohesion, safety, and constructive conflict management) than
students in classes taught by new NCIP teachers. However,
students in either NCIP class perceived a much more
positive climate than students in control classes. !
NCIP impact on classroom climate increased throughout
the year, while perceived climate in control classes
usually became notably more negative throughout the
year.

14. WWW.CREDUCATION.ORG
Funded by FIPSE Project P116B040920, JAMS Foundation, Gund Foundation

15. GLOBAL PROJECTS SECTION
"15

16. DIRECTORY OF CRE ORGANIZATIONS
http://www.creducation.org/cre/global_cre/world_regions/
international_cre_directory

17. CRE LEARNING MODULES
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/learning_modules_and_activities
Based on CRETE Skills Infusion
Matrix!
Designed to reinforce learning
through interaction!
Intended for Re-use!
Easy to Update with New
Information!
Feedback Form at end

18. EXAMPLES FROM
COLLECTION

19. MODULES ARE BUILT WITH
A FREE TOOL
http://exelearning.org
Called eXe !
Open source tool from New Zealand built on top of
the Firefox browser platform!
We developed our own “theme” to give a consistent
look to the project

20. VIDEO COLLECTION
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/online_videos!

21. CONFERENCE
PRESENTATION
SLIDES - LOTS!
Click to view
Choose
presentation
Menu to
embed
Play as
full
screen

22. TOPICAL PAGES DRAW ON OUR CATALOG
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/cre_practices_descriptions

23. FULL CATALOG IS SEARCHABLE
http://www.creducation.org/catalog/
More
than
650
items

24. INDEXED BY OAISTER
http://oaister.worldcat.org
OAIster is a global shared
catalog indexing more than
900 collections of open
access materials

25. NOW IN LIBRARIES
WORLDWIDE!
OCLC, the library cooperative that
runs the Worldcat.org online
library, is now integrating the
OAIster collection into their First
Search library database package!
All Libraries with First Search get
this - part of the base package. This
means most colleges and public
libraries...

26. EXAMPLE FROM WSU

27. JUVENILE CORRECTIONS OFFICER
TRAINING
http://www.creducation.org/cre/jdo/!

28. TEACHERS WALL CALENDARS - WITH ACR
ED SECTION HELP
http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/calendar

29. MANUAL ON STARTING PEACE STUDIES
PROGRAMS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES!
http://creducation.org/cre/goto/ccps

30. CONFLICT RESOLUTION DAY
Poetry
Contest
http://
www.creducation.
org/cre/home/
conflict_resolution
_day_materials
Third Thursday of Oct. each year. October 17th this year.
http://www.acrnet.org/crday/

31. CR INTERACTIVES COLLECTION
www.creducation.org/cre/crday/games/

32. CREDUCATION STATS
CREducation.org
Steady Growth in Website Traffic
builds to 11,000 unique visits monthly
One key indicator of a useful web resource is the number of unique visitors that browse to the site in a given month.
This statistic is a good measure of site growth because it filters out repeat visits by the same user IP address during that month
so as not to overweight visits by one very eager visitor or busy staff member. As the above graph indicates, CREducation.org
has experienced steady growth since launch, reaching a monthly high of more than 11,000 unique visits in November of
2010. In terms of overall content delivered, another useful measure is the number of full pages (featuring combined text and
graphics, not just server “hits”) served. The Conflict Resolution in Education clearinghouse passed a milestone in December of
2010 when it served up its Six Millionth page. As this report is being compiled the site is being moved onto a
brand-new server that will provide faster access speeds and real-time redundant backup to ensure that CREducation.org
can continue to serve the CRETE project and the broader CRE community well into the future.

33. DEMOCRACYIS.US/ACTIVE

34. PREZI PROMOTING IT
http://prezi.com/qs82btp8gejr/democracy-is-us/

35. DEMOCRACYIS.US/ACTIVE

36. DEMOCRACYIS.US/ACTIVE

37. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

38. CRE CATALOG BY CATEGORY
Peace Education
Category

39. USIP’S BUILDINGPEACE.ORG

40. U.S. NATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY RESOURCES

41. TEACHERS WITHOUT BORDERS

42. PEACEFIRST ACTIVITY COLLECTION

43. PEERMEDIATORS.ORG

44. PEACEONEDAY MATERIALS

45. GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCAR
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING TOOLS
http://scar.gmu.edu/experientiallearningproject/
for Undergraduates

46. GMU ELU EXAMPLES

47. CRE IPAD APP 2.0
Get first edition in the app store by
searching for “Conflict Resolution
Education”!
Direct Link - https://appsto.re/i6FT2TM!
Want to do a new version!
What should be included?!
Who should be our audience?!
Games?

48. THANK YOU
w.warters@wayne.edu

49. Conflict Learning Designs Session at PJSA 2013
Background on Presenter
Bill Warters w.warters@wayne.edu @bwarters
Faculty Profile at http://comm.wayne.edu/profile.php?id=499
Director, MA in Dispute Resolution at Wayne State University in Detroit
http://madr.comm.wayne.edu
Useful Materials Bill Warters had a hand in creating:
Campus Conflict Resolution Resources Clearinghouse - http://www.campus-adr.org
Mediation Roleplays collection - http://www.campus-adr.org/Training_Center/content/
roleplays/
ADR Tech Blog - http://www.campus-adr.org/techblog/
Campus Mediation Program Startup Materials - http://www.campus-adr.org/
CR_Services_Center/
Conflict Resolution Education Resource Center - http://creducation.org
CRE Practice Area summaries - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/
cre_practices_descriptions
Learning Modules Collection - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/
learning_modules_and_activities
Videos - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/online_videos
Slides from CRE and Peace Ed conferences - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/
conference_presentations
Resource Catalog - http://www.creducation.org/catalog/
Juvenile Corrections Officer Training Curriculum - http://www.creducation.org/cre/jdo/
CRE Teacher Wall Calendars - http://www.creducation.org/cre/teachers/calendar
Manual on Starting Peace Studies Programs at Community Colleges - http://creducation.org/
cre/goto/ccps
CRE Summit Conferences - http://creducation.org/cre/goto/creconf
Democracyis.us creative project - http://democracyis.us/active/
Nonviolence History Timeline - http://democracyis.us/active/nvhistory/
Resources for teaching democracy - http://democracyis.us/active/resources/
Calendar of World Civic and Religious Holidays - http://democracyis.us/fullcalendar/
calendar.html
iPad App for Conflict Resolution Educators - created by Bill Warters
Get it in the app store by searching for Conflict Resolution Education
Direct Link - https://appsto.re/i6FT2TM
Other Good Peace Ed Curricular Collections
CREducation Peace Ed catalog collection at http://www.creducation.org/catalog/index.php?
P=BrowseResources&ParentId=483
USIP BuildingPeace.org
http://www.buildingpeace.org/train-resources/educators/peacebuilding-toolkit-educators
National Peace Academy Peace, Peacebuilding & PeaceLearning guides
http://nationalpeaceacademy.us/edresources/study-guide/childrens-curriculum/
http://nationalpeaceacademy.us/edresources/study-guide/youth-curriculum/

50. Teachers Beyond Borders Peace Ed Teacher Prep Curriculum
http://teacherswithoutborders.org/programs/core-programs/peace-education
Online courses - http://nixty.com/c/twb
PeaceFirst Digital Activity Center
http://www.peacefirst.org/digitalactivitycenter/
PeerMediators.org Middle School Peer Mediation Curriculum - http://www.peermediators.org
PeaceOneDay
http://peaceoneday.org/education-resources-area/
USA Version - online viewing example
http://content.yudu.com/A29wse/USAEducRes2013/