Peace Curriculum
Peace Curriculum is a school based program that teaches young people the value of peace through literature and community service learning. It is a learning experience that brings together teachers, students, parents and other community adults.  The core curriculum is a set of teaching guides developed for elementary, middle, and high school level books that mirror the violent reality confronting today’s students and that embody the peaceful values to be fostered in students.  Each teaching guide provides teachers with a set of activities and discussion topics to help students better explore the concepts of loss, grief, and social literacy.

The Peace Curriculum is available in three levels/formats:

High School Program

• Teaching Peace Guide with “Teacup Full of Roses” by Sharon Bell Mathis
•  Teaching Peace Guide with “Motown & Didi” by Walter Dean Meyers
•   Teaching Peace Guide with “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
• Teaching Peace Guide with “Fist Stick Knife Gun” by Geoffrey Canada

Middle School Progr am

•  Teaching Peace Guide with “Scorpions” by Walter Dean Meyers

Elementary School Program:

• PeaceZone (in collaboration with The Harvard School of Public Health and The Lesson One Foundation) PEACEZONE is an elementary school-based program (ages 4 -11 years) that is designed to increase students’ ability to heal from trauma and loss, make positive decisions, and avoid risk-taking behavior.  This unique program is the first to combine two approaches: building social skills and healing from trauma, grief and loss for the classroom. Psychomotor expressive activities and community service shape the key healing activities. The program includes a School Climate Change Module and six classroom-based units: 

1. The Louis D. Brown Story
2. Pledge for Peace
3. Trying Your Best
4. Self-Control    
5. Thinking & Problem Solving
6. Cooperation