National statistics reveal up to 600 students for every high school counselor. This means that the average high school student gets 10 minutes of his/her counselor's time each school year. There are just too few counselors to meet the needs of all students and too little time.

Some of the student's most basic needs, such as learning how to manage conflict, cannot be adequately addressed. Not only is it important for them to learn tools and techniques for getting along with others, but students should also gain an understanding as to why it is often so difficult to get what they want.

Internet-based conflict management education lessons are easy to provide and can effectively teach critical real-world skills to any student.

• Leverage your time - Lessons delivered via the Internet are the most efficient way to teach, without adding to your curriculum load.
• Alternative to punishment - Applied as a detention or suspension alternative, this course can be used as a survival tool.
• Easy to use - The lessons are delivered online and are self-paced so there is minimal to moderate supervision is effective.
• Automatic tracking - Lessons include various forms state standards framed assessments to track students' progress and give immediate feedback.
• Enhances communication - Students gain a common vocabulary of words necessary to communicate abstract ideas and enable them to analyze complex emotions and feelings. This allows sessions with counselors, peer mediations and other interventions to be more effective.
  

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