Photos | THE TEACHING PEACE CONFERENCE | Melinda Salazar

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Participants Steve and Diane Brandon on the left and Phyllis Ring in center listen to a poetry reading.

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Teaching Peace workers Sophie Valena, Anne Tregea, Nik Binik, Ali Shaker and David Lofgren prepare the table for selling Teaching Peace tee-shirts designed to support the Teaching Peace Conference.

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Teaching Peace

Conference co-organizer Kay Morgan offered an interactive workshop where participants shared ideas and lesson plans to create a unit or a course which focuses on teaching peace as a positive construct. Participants were invited to bring their own lesson plan ideas, tried and true, or in the fledgling stage, for sharing and discussion. Finally, participants considered problems and strategies for implementing a peace curriculum in their school.

Kay Morgan teaches English and Peace Studies at Oyster River High School. She is the recipient of the Treat Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Humanities and was the Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical Fellow in 2002/03. She is the Director of the New Hampshire Project.

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Creating a Culture of Peace

Kathleen Shepard is a special educator in NY, VT and NH, a school and community peace educator, mediator, international education program administrator, and the founding member of the Vermont Peace Academy in 2003. At the 2005 Teaching Peace Conference, Kathleen asks: How Can We Build the U.S. Department of Peace One State at a Time?How Can We Build the U.S. Department of Peace One State at a Time? Her session examines a case study of the efforts of the Vermont Peace Academy to promote the Department of Peace to develop interpersonal and global peace.

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Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:13:36 -0400

Personal Peace

The Classroom and Personal Peace: In a session titled, "Do Emotions Belong in 21st Century Classrooms and How Does Personal Peace Find Its Way?" participants addressed how acting or not acting on emotions affect the attainment of personal peace, and explored what constitutes personal peace and what happens when we are not there. The session was presented by Erika M. Hunter, a social worker and clinician for fifteen years in Maine and New Hampshire. She is the author of a recent book put out by Hazelden, Little Book of BIG Emotions. She is also a jazz pianist and vocalist playing music throughout Maine and New Hampshire. She believes that recognizing, taking responsibility for, and releasing the energy of the emotions, as well as actively participating in creativity, are primary to human development that is healthy, individual, and ultimately harmonious for the Self and the community.

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Teaching Peace in Cheshire County

Kate Kerman facilitated a workshop that looked at curriculum and ideas based on the Peacemaking classes taught at the Keene Community Education Summer Institute and an intergenerational Power of Peace camp at Phoenix Farm in Cheshire County. Kate taught conflict resolution and facilitated hundreds of interpersonal and community mediations during 8 years at The Meeting School in Rindge, NH, where mediations and restorative discipline were an integral part of the community life. For the past 6 years she has coordinated the Keene High School peer mediation program and taught home schooling high schoolers at her Phoenix Farm Learning Center. She is in her first semester at Lesley University's Master's Program in Peaceable Schools.

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Environmental Peace:

New Hampshire State Representative Emma Rous, formerly of Oyster River High School, is the author of the Literature and the Land, a guide for developing ecological literary in young people. Emma facilitates discussion aimed at exploring practical ways educators support students in exploring daily life to gain awareness of what is positive and in harmony with our planets’ natural systems and what is not. The participatory workshop emphasized interdisciplinary and intergenerational approaches. The workshop offered a framework upon which lessons from any content area can develop a movement in the direction of a more positive and peaceful future for our planet. Emma Rous serves on the environmental and education standing committees in the State Legislature.