Peaceful Schools Helpline: Support for New Educators

Early career educators, this one is just for you!

As experienced Restorative educators, we know that all educators experience setbacks and challenges, but it can be particularly hard for our newest teachers. We've got your back with our New Teacher Helpline on February 27, 2025.

For years, Peaceful Schools NC has offered in-person workshops in support of pre-service teachers and new educators. We are thrilled to expand our reach to educators across the country and beyond! This session will be hosted via Zoom and free with a suggested donation.

Our content will be determined by our participants, with a focus on:

✅ relationships with students and adults in the community

✅ classroom management

✅ addressing conflict and bullying

✅ anything else related to thriving as a new educator.

This event is tailored for university students and pre-service teachers, educators in their first three years of working in schools, and anyone who supports early career and pre-service educators.

Submit your questions in advance or during our session and we’ll have a panel of experts to help you out! Each panelist has many years of direct experience supporting new and pre-service teachers.

Don't hesitate to email us ([email protected]) with questions about the event.

We hope to see you there!

This virtual event is FREE and open to all, with a suggested donation of $5–$10 to support our work.

Christel Greiner Butchart is the Director of Peaceful Schools NC. With 19 years of experience as an educator, Christel works to empower teachers, students, and school communities in effectively implementing a social curriculum founded in student education and practice of conflict resolution strategies. Christel is a Rotary Peace Fellow and holds a Masters in International Relations with a focus on Peace and Conflict Resolution. At Carolina Friends School, she teaches Conflict Resolution to middle schoolers. Internationally, Christel has worked with students and teachers in Myanmar (Burma) and Australia, teaching peace education and developing relevant conflict resolution curriculum. She is a certified IIRP Restorative Justice trainer. As a mother of two young kids, Christel has countless opportunities for Restorative Practices at home.

Ida Trisolini is the Staff Clerk and middle school teacher at Carolina Friends School, and has been an educator for 30 years. Ida has served in multiple roles at Carolina Friends School, including Interim Head of Middle School and Interim Assistant Head for Teaching and Learning. She helped design the conflict resolution curriculum at CFS and has presented at regional and national conferences on topics related to school culture and teaching conflict resolution. Ida loves contributing to the transformative impact healthy relationships can have in a school setting.

Lamanda Pryor, a native of Durham, has thrived as a transformational educator, leader, and children’s advocate in North Carolina and New York for over 20 years. Drawing on her years of experience as an educator, LaManda has created real-life steps to address disparities in school discipline. She is relentless in her pursuit of establishing safe, caring, and nurturing learning environments that promote acceptance and puts kids’ needs first. By focusing on continuous improvements to the processes of conflict resolutions and developing the child’s self-esteem, LaManda feels that as far as our children’s learning potential is concerned: the best is yet to come. Currently, she is the Founder of Pryor 2 Consulting, LLC focusing on education and community reform.

Jocelyn Glazier, MAT, Ph.D. is currently faculty in the UNC School of Education. After teaching high school English in the Northeast, Jocelyn moved to the Midwest to earn her doctorate in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy. Committed to equity and social justice, Jocelyn conducted ethnographic research for her dissertation in Israel at one of the first bilingual schools there. Since then, Jocelyn has taught and worked with teachers first in the Washington, DC area and now in and around UNC in her faculty role in the School of Education. Through her teaching and research, Jocelyn seeks to support pre-service and in-service teachers in creating and enacting meaningful, equitable, experiential, and transformative curricula and pedagogy to empower all students.

Renée Prillaman, Ph.D. has over 40 years of teaching and administrative experience and holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. Seeing teaching as a calling and an act of creating social justice, Renée spent her career focused on supporting and developing teachers and leaders of teachers. She served on the faculties at Meredith College, UNC- Chapel Hill, and Duke University and at Carolina Friends School as a teacher, Head of the Middle School, and the School's first Assistant Head for Teaching and Learning as well as Interim Head of School. Currently, Renée is a coach and consultant. She is a founding board member and previous Chair of the Peaceful Schools NC Committee and has served on the faculty since its inception.

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