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Empowered Children…Empowered Parents
With the Peace Table we are giving children strategies to be better able to manage relationships by listening to each other.
One of the times parents and teachers are in the closest contact with each other is the “parent-teacher conference.” What is the best way to carry out a successful parent conference?
For educators it is important to be able to hear and understand family concerns through the family point-of-view. To do this you need first to build a relationship with the family that takes deep active listening.
This is the explanation of how going up the Ladder of Anti-Bias Goals to the treehouse of Peaceful Environments can help shift thinking to include the dynamic of power in our work for social justice.
The talking stick is a peaceful way of solving a problem. In a conflict situation, the person holding the talking stick is the one who speaks while others listen with their hearts.