For Schools and Educators

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You have a dynamic, thoughtful group of experts at your disposal. 

Nobody is better equipped to help one another navigate their environment than the children already in your room. You can help them learn how.

Graduate-level coursework, free to educators. Professional development for your staff. Tools your teachers can use with their own classes. And a few schools each year who work with us closely — trying things, telling us what happens, and helping us learn where this goes next.

That's deliberate. We grow by depth, not breadth.

Conflict resolution theory and practice, and how to teach it to children — through planned lessons and through the ready-made opportunities already in your day.

What works in your room won't look like what works down the hall. We help you find yours.

Children don't work personal problems in class. A live incident narrows what children think they're allowed to say, and it doesn't use the best thing in the room, which is everyone else's thinking.

What a class builds is never punitive and never used against a child. Goals are framed positively — how do we show kindness during transitions, not a rule about running.

And we don't replace what you're already running. Restorative practices, PBIS, MTSS, peer mediation — good work, all of it, and all downstream of the moment we're interested in. We send children into those programs already knowing how to listen and already holding options they wrote themselves.

EDPD 829C — Before, During and After Thinking: Teaching Problem Solving and Mediation Principles to Children

A 2-credit, pass/fail graduate course through the College of Charleston's Office of Professional Development in Education. Five sessions, 30 contact hours, capped at 14, open to anyone with a teaching certificate.

It's free, credit hours included — CR4K covers the registration and tuition for every seat.

Every assignment is practiced with your own students. Not role-plays with other adults. And grading is completion-based: no lateness penalty, no quality scale. The design rewards honest effort with real children, not lesson polish.

We also deliver staff training for schools and organizations directly.

Take the course. Enrollment is open for the next session.

Schedule professional development. For your staff, your counseling team, or your organization — a session, a half day, or something built around what your people are running into.

Work with us closely. Every year a few schools go deeper — trying the tools, telling us what happens, and helping us build the evidence base for this work. Some of that becomes formal research, with the College of Charleston. All of it makes the practice better. If that sounds like your school, we'd like to hear from you.

To start any of these, write to hello@conflictresolutionkids.org.