At a recent national conference for K-12 school leaders here, multiple workshops on “conflict management” ran at almost full capacity. The principals in attendance were seeking tips and strategies to ...

One superintendent even confided to me that his job is conflict resolution all day long. As a psychiatrist who is frequently asked to intervene when schools and parents reach an impasse, I know how ...

Ah, parent-teacher conferences. Those semi-awkward, sometimes nerve-wracking evenings when parents and teachers gather to discuss the academic and social progress of our little darlings. It’s a time ...

We all know — or have heard of — that one teacher. You know, the one who insists on doing things their own way. Maybe it’s the veteran who’s been teaching longer than you’ve been alive and sees no ...

Parents are the third rail of the discipline conversation. Teachers say they need backup from their school leaders.

Between parent and adolescent, there is usually more verbal conflict than was true during the childhood years as the developmental forces of separation, opposition, and differentiation cause a healthy ...