Guiding Principles

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.

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