CRETE trainers collaborate with the Network for Enhancing Teacher – Quality  Program in an effort to improve the quality of both prospective and new teachers and impact teacher preparation.

The CRETE training program significantly increases pre-service and in-service teachers’ confidence and ability to:

• Manage conflicts between students
• Manage conflicts between themselves and students
• Manage conflicts with colleagues and peers
• Manage conflicts with parents
• Enact a variety of conflict skills, including collaborative problem-solving, negotiation, facilitation and mediation

Session 1 (2 Hours)

• Connecting who you are with what you do
• Communicating constructively throughout conflicts
• Identifying conflict styles and their appropriate uses in the classroom

Session 2 (2 Hours)

• Creating a positive classroom culture

Session 3 (2 Hours)

• Bullying

Session 4 (2 Hours)

• Conflict Resolution in the classroom

Mentor/Administrator Session 1
(2 Hours)

• CRETE and Courage to Teach
• Conflict analysis, communication and conflict styles
• Creating a positive classroom/school culture

Mentor/Administrator Session 2
(2 hours)

• Bullying – causes/prevention/responses
• Restorative Justice
• Sustaining the development of constructive conflict management in your classrooms and schools
• Conflict management strategies and cooperative learning approaches

Summer Institute

• 2-Hour Interactive Session