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Peace Learning Center, in partnership with DMHA, has created a FREE train-the-trainer program for schools across the state of Indiana. In the spring of 2021, the module for the central region of Indiana will begin.  If you are in  Northern Indiana, there will be sessions held near you in the fall of 2021. Each participating school will send a small team who will: Receive 5 days of training and will emerge as trainers, capable of training the rest of your staff Receive all training materials and resources Create a restorative discipline plan to help move your practices from punitive to restorative Be connected to a cohort of other schools to learn from and share resources Receive support and consultation from Peace Learning Center *If in-person training's are not an option, we will offer online training's, certification, and resource distribution! It is also important to note that starting school year 2019-2020 school districts need to ensure that they are continuing to meet the letter and intent of HEA 1421. This train the trainer opportunity and creation of restorative discipline plan would meet these statutory requirements! The Spring 2021 Cohort will be trained in central Indiana at Peace Learning Center. 6040 Delong Rd Indianapolis, IN 46254 Cost of training, lodging and a perdiem for each participant are covered.   Cost of travel and substitutes are not covered. Apply here.

Peace Learning Center, in partnership with DMHA, has created a FREE train-the-trainer program for schools across the state of Indiana. In the fall of 2020, the module for the southern region of Indiana will begin.  If you are in Central or Northern Indiana, there will be sessions held near you in the spring of 2021 or fall of 2021. Each participating school will send a small team who will: Receive 5 days of training and will emerge as trainers, capable of training the rest of your staff Receive all training materials and resources Create a restorative discipline plan to help move your practices from punitive to restorative Be connected to a cohort of other schools to learn from and share resources Receive support and consultation from Peace Learning Center *If in-person training's are not an option, we will offer online training's, certification, and resource distribution! It is also important to note that starting school year 2019-2020 school districts need to ensure that they are continuing to meet the letter and intent of HEA 1421. This train the trainer opportunity and creation of restorative discipline plan would meet these statutory requirements! The Fall 2020 Cohort will be trained in southern Indiana at the Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum. 1101 E. Market St, Jeffersonville, IN 47130 Cost of training, lodging and a perdiem for each participant are covered.   Cost of travel and substitutes are not covered. Apply here.

İBienvenidos al Peace Learning Center! Working as a Spanish Specialist at PLC means a lot of things. Put simply, we are the bilingual facilitators. We translate youth and adult resources from English into Spanish, we facilitate youth and adult programs in Spanish, we adapt bilingual programs to meet the needs of multilingual groups—the list goes on. Most importantly, we use our language skills to bring PLC’s mission to fruition for Spanish-speaking community members. PLC’s mission is to support communities in redefining peace through equity, justice and the implementation of innovative practices. Speaking in Spanish allows us to appropriately serve Spanish-speaking communities domestically and internationally. We serve adult groups, official Spanish immersion schools, as well as schools that have any number of Spanish speaking students. At the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, we were able to provide schools with bilingual (Spanish/English) resources for the first time. This means that now we serve youth and adults more effectively by offering bilingual calm kits, bilingual SEL (social-emotional learning) lessons, bilingual restorative circles, and bilingual peace literature. Sometimes we enter English-speaking classrooms and there are a few students who only speak Spanish. We help students understand the purpose of our programs by talking to them in Spanish. They tend to break past that “wall” of being timid or afraid to talk to facilitators because they don’t know we know Spanish until we make it known. This kind of relationship-building is powerful. We