1. Peace educators teach with a world-view including lessons that provide multiple perspectives from multiple resources. 
2. Through service learning projects and exemplifying a shared vision of peace, peace educators purposefully and explicitly teach and model social skills, conflict resolution, common values to “walk the talk”
3. Peace education is interconnected and integrated in all the curriculum areas that we teach.
4. Peace educators connect teaching to the child’s world to make it meaningful and fun allowing students themselves to generate ideas as often as possible.
5. Peace educators use a variety of instructional strategies.
6. Peace educators intentionally build strong learning communities with healthy communication. 
7. Peace educators teach, model and live peace with students and other adults and believe that what they do will make a difference.

History & Purpose

Becoming an International Peace  Site is quite exciting. Maintaining an International Peace Site can be challenging. As a result of staff changes or lack of time and energy, sometimes, Peace Sites disappear.

In 1998, World Citizen, Inc. conducted a survey of Peace Site schools. The following needs were most often mentioned:

1. To keep Peace Site schools active beyond the initial dedication ceremony
   
2. To support teachers in creating and sustaining a culture of peace and non-violence in their classrooms and buildings

The purpose of our Peace Education Program is the direct result of our work with teachers who identified the following as their needs as peace educators

• Create professional development opportunities to network
• Exchange ideas and resources
• Build a supportive community of educators who foster a culture of peace in their classrooms and buildings

  Peace Education

  
  

  Educators Coming Together to Share

In 1999 our first session of elementary educators gathered at The Historic Streetcar Station in Como Park in St. Paul. From the

Peace Educators In Action

Noted author Naomi Drew training educators about anti-bullying techniques.

ongoing evaluations and assessments, we have received a clear message that what we offer is critically needed and of value.

How Peace Ed Training Can Benefit Your Classroom

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  Collaboration and dialogue with colleague
• Encouragement and mutual support
• More confident teaching peace
• More mindful of peace education in daily planning as well as in the learning environment
• Ideas for resources to implement into standards
• The importance of creating a community of Peacemakers and how it impacts student academic growth

Peace Education Video