CRESST Resources and Training
Workshop: Creative conflict in a university/college classroom
Teaching and learning in a university classroom are centrally concerned with disagreement regarding claims, sources, interpretations and applications of knowledge. Consequently, conflict is unavoidable and encouraged as an intended learning outcome. In an educational landscape marked by violent disagreement and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the current cohort of undergraduates, both university educators…
Curious about conflict: PSHE Association KS3 accredited lessons
Curious about conflict is a pack of 6 PSHE lessons for KS3 students that has been awarded the PSHE Association Quality Mark and downloaded by over 6000 teachers. Download the lessons here. These lessons have been designed based on CRESST’s experience of working in five secondary schools. They introduce young people to an understanding of what…
Worried about online conflict?
Are you worried about your students being in conflict online? About hate speech and trolling? CRESST has worked with young people at Shirebrook Academy to produce a short graphic novel ‘Banter Royale’ based on their story ideas and crammed full of tips and hints for handling online conflict that we tried out with these students….
The Peer Mediation Coordinator’s Pack
Wanting to set up peer mediation in your primary school? Thinking about it for the summer term? Or just curious and want to know more? We know from nearly 20 years’ experience and work with more than 75 primary schools that young people can be brilliant at helping others to resolve friendship fallouts and disputes….
COVID-19 update from CRESST
As from Monday 6th April 2020 all CRESST staff are on the government furlough scheme. This has been a difficult decision but in light of the current situation we feel that this is the best way to preserve our funds as far as we can to enable CRESST the best chance of continuing conflict resolution education…
COVID-19: CRESST information and response
CRESST, like many places, has moved to working remotely. We continue to be active but will not be delivering any face-to-face work in schools for the foreseeable future – we imagine until at least September. Meanwhile we will be working hard on creating more resources, developing programmes and securing funding so that our work can…
Peer Mediation Network meeting and skillshare
At the next PMN meeting and skillshare, we are fortunate to welcome Dr Alison Benson who will share her research on the impact of peer mediation. Alison is an Educational Psychologist (EP) who lives and works in Bristol. She previously lived in London where she worked as an EP in Southwark and completed her doctoral…
Annual Peer Mediators’ Conference
The CRESST annual conference for pupils who have been peer mediators is hugely popular with all our Young Peacemaker Project schools. The next conference is planned for Thursday 23rd January 2020 To thank these enthusiastic volunteer peer mediators for their commitment the day provides interactive and fun workshops on co-operative games, conversation café, exploring issues such as…
Teacher Development Conference: Leeds 2019
CRESST is pleased to announce that we are delivering four workshops at the Teacher Development Conference in Leeds this July. The programme looks exciting and we are delighted to be part of it. Our workshop entitled Conflict Resolution in the Classroom: Supporting Young People to Resolve Conflicts Without Aggression will be delivered to crossphase teachers who…
Festival of Education: CRESST workshops confirmed
CRESST is delighted to be delivering 2 workshops as part of the Hallam Festival of Education hosted by Sheffield Hallam University. Handling conflict well – training young people in conflict resolution skills will be held on Saturday 15th June at 12:00pm for those working in secondary schools, and Young Peacemakers and peer mediation will be held…