On many fall and winter mornings, I am up before the sun, traveling to work with students and educators in some distant school. The music that for years has been my companion on these dawn drives is Aaron Copeland's "Appalachian Spring."… read this issue >>

I am not what is known as an "early adopter" of new technologies. I would still be waiting in line to pay the turnpike toll if my wife hadn't registered us for Massachusetts' undeniably convenient electronic payment system, Fast Lane. And even though music is one of my passions, I own an iPod only because Apple gave me one as a free gift when I purchased a computer.… read this issue >>

One of the major differences in peer mediation models is whether they employ "private sessions." This month I thought I would explain School Mediation Associates' approach to this issue, and a bit of related history. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, private sessions refer to the separate meetings that mediators can hold with parties. Each party is called in individually to speak with the mediators while other parties wait their turn in an anteroom.… read this issue >>