Peer Mediation Alive and Well at Union Street School

60+ 5th Grader's at Union Street School are part of the Peer Mediation Program that is in it's 14th year in the Springfield School District.
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Peer Mediation Alive and Well at Union Street School Submitted by VT Journal on Tue, 12/17/2013 - 3:37pm SPRINGFIELD, VT -5th Grader's at Union Street School put their highly trained skills to work. These 60 plus students are part of the Peer Mediation Program that is in it's 14th year in the Springfield School District. They utilize their listening skills to help students feel more connected to their school and to each other. Moria (5th grader in Ms. Hammond's class) says, "I am glad to be a captain. I know I can do this because the teacher's believe I can". All fourth graders are trained by Mrs. Rounds, School Counselor using the Peace Scholars Creative Conflict Solving Curriculum. Group picture consists of all 5th graders who are part of the Peer Mediation Program for the 2013-2014 school year. Students in red Peer Mediator shirts are the 12 peer mediators picked by the 5th grade teachers because they are exemplimary in their mediation skills and their peers trust them. They are from bottom left to right; Gwen Roundy, Gage Winot, Leah Protus, Anna Church, Paul Dana, Haley Gibbons, Danika Corliss, Emily Chase, Griffin Lavoie, Chloe Germane-Brown, Reilly, Kalie Peoples Pictured in their Deputy t-shirts from left to right; Moria Latteral, Megan Greenwood, Cooper Buskey, and Morgan Lund are at their work station getting their clipboards to be available for students at recess who might be having friendship problems.