Tennessee Peaceable Schools has been identified as a model for statewide implementation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Center for Conflict Resolution Education.

Peaceable Schools is intended to reduce violence by providing children and adults with the skills, information, and practice needed to appropriately resolve conflicts.  Some of the skills taught in Peaceable Schools include empathy development, impulse control, and problem solving, cooperation and anger management.  Students and adults learn to define conflict and determine where conflict originates.  While initially created to reduce incidents of aggressive and impulsive behaviors, Peaceable Schools is also effective in decreasing disruptive behaviors and improving the social and emotional climate of the school.  Peaceable Schools will offer on a priority basis basic conflict resolution, classroom management, peer mediation and social emotional training to Tennessee schools listed as a High Priority School as determined by the Tennessee Department of Education and to community based programs serving "at risk" youth. 

School teams attending the three day institutes will be eligible for follow-up technical assistance days in the areas of curricula integration, classroom management, social emotional skills, life skills, developing community resources, etc. 

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For more information contact:

Janis Kyser

423-593-1444

jkyser@clevelandschools.org