This secondary school text on conflict resolution presents a radical idea: conflict is positive and can serve to enhance important relationships. In this text, teachers and students will learn how to become empowered to express and resolve their own conflicts. This text does not focus on the process of using courts, lawyers, or arbitrators to make decisions when disagreements arise. Rather, it is about how to mine the "gold" in a conflict through direct communication between disputants themselves (from guide).
Features over thirty original pieces of fresh and delightfully beautiful storybook art. When Dreadlocks visits the house of the bears what do her brown eyes see? A lesson in love, a lesson in fun and peace and goodwill for everyone.
A musical cricket from Connecticut helps to transform New York City in the Christmas season from a noisy, quarrelsome place into a place of peace and harmony.
Harold Littlebird reads "The legend of the Indian paintbrush" retold by Tomie de Paola. It is the story of an Indian boy's journey as he follows his visionquest to find the special gift for his people. Host LeVar Burton visits Taos, New Mexico, where he talks with three Pueblo artists. Barbara Feldon reads "The life cycle of the honeybee" by Paula Z. Hogan. Host LeVar Burton visits a beekeeper and examines a beehive.