Educational Groups

Ways to Engage as a Nonviolent School or Class

 

How Much Extra Work is This for My School or Classroom?

Writing your school’s nonviolence resolution, using samples from other Nonviolent Louisville schools, can be done by educators, leadership, or can be a class project written by students.

Take enough time to craft it then seek buy-in from leadership, teachers, or fellow students.

Consider committing for one school year with the option to renew for more years.

 

Choose Methods of Expanding the Culture of Nonviolence that work best for Your School Community

Invite an organization or individual that provides trainings, presentations or offerings that fit into your structure and your schedule.

Examine conflict resolution practices between students, between teachers and students, or among staff.

Explore the Meaning, Practices, and Applications of Nonviolence.

Include a presentation or video as part of an already-scheduled meeting or in-service training with teachers and staff.

Provide the cost or time required for teachers and staff to attend nonviolence education programs, classes, or workshops held off-campus or online. Opportunities are posted on this site.

Connect students through novels or videos that model nonviolent problem-solving, discussion, creative projects, and role play. Book lists are posted on this site.

Areas that can be adjusted to serve students or adults include: restorative justice methods, building awareness that all hold pieces of the truth, learning skills in de-escalation and bystander intervention, understanding conflict styles, building emotional awareness and self-regulation, and Beloved Community, where all are respected and have a role.

 

Examine your School’s Internal Practices.

Consider adding phrases such as “do no harm” or “nonviolence practiced here” to the school or class motto.

Explore Dr. Martin Luther King’s definition of “the Beloved Community” and how the students or school can embody that.

Move from competitive to collaborative models of student work together.

Examine conflict resolution practices between students, between teachers and students, or among staff.

Look at how nonviolence skills can be embodied in policies for teachers, staff, and students.