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A planning guide for creating a school-wide program
around the School/Classroom Pledge of Nonviolence, with clear
implementation steps, a peacemaking calendar, inspirational overview essay and
a clear evaluation instrument
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Descriptions of how
several schools and school systems have implemented the Pledge
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470 pages of creative
activities and lesson plans for Grades K-2 and 3-5 for each of the 7 Pledge
components
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Special units on
dealing with racism, violence in play and the media, and the violence of war
and terrorism. This last unit is especially helpful for educators who
want to help children deal with what it means to be a peacemaker after 9/11
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Kids Creating Circles of Peace
student workbook
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Families Creating a Circle of Peace
for parents as well as teachers
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Celebrating Racial Diversity
teachers manual
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Teaching Peace CD
and Teachers Guide/Songbook
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Parent handouts for
use at home
Why Your School Needs This Kit
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Everyone is concerned about violence --
this Kit gives you the
tools to do something positive about violence
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The Kit will help your students learn
skills for resolving conflicts nonviolently and make your school a safer place
to be and a more effective place to learn. The Kit will help students
become more critical viewers of media violence and less violent in their own
play
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The Pledge of Nonviolence offers
students and teachers a positive way of living and acting every day, so that
their lives truly do make a difference
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The Kit provides
helpful resources for inviting parents to make the Pledge of Nonviolence a
part of their family, reinforcing what the school is teaching their children
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The program offers concrete action
options for confronting the violence your students and their families face in
the community, in the media, sometimes even at school or at home
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The Kit is
easy to use with practical and engaging classroom activities for each of the
Pledge components and comprehensive teachers manuals for infusing the Pledge
into the curriculum year-round
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And the Kit is
fully multicultural, offering hundreds of suggestions for breaking down racial
barriers and confronting the violence of racism and the other "-isms" that are
the roots of violence in our society