Free the Children: Conflict Education for Strong Peaceful Minds - Paperback

by Susan Gingras Fitzell M. Ed (Author)

This book offers a unique approach to helping ourselves and our children break free from negative cultural and media conditioning that creates aggression and conflict. Covering pre-K through twelfth grade, it presents five essential components necessary for an effective conflict education curriculum that is developmentally appropriate, and explores key issues including raising a peaceful male child in a violent world; the effect of media violence on children; school bullies; dating violence; and empowering adolescent girls to refuse the role of the "victim."

Author Biography

Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP is a veteran teacher with over 20 years experience working with public and private schools as a learning disabilities specialist. She is in demand nationally as a presenter for school in-service and conference keynotes and breakouts. She specializes in special education inclusion, differentiated instruction, conflict resolution, bullying, and anger management. Susan stays active in the classroom through her work as a consultant and by continuing her direct work with students in various school and after-school settings.