Empower students.
Reduce discipline issues.
Boost school safety.
Create a sustainable system that empowers your students to proactively manage their own conflicts, encourages a safer school environment, and multiplies your impact.
As a School Leader, you're facing:
Constant peer conflicts making school feel unsafe and reactive
Fights, group chats, and hallway drama escalate fast, pulling your team into crisis mode when you’re already stretched thin. It’s not just disruptive; it chips away at trust, safety, and instructional time.
Suspensions that pull kids from class and relationships
With limited alternatives, suspensions often feel like the only option - but they don’t always solve the root issues. Every time a student’s out of class, learning and relationships suffer.
A drive to build student leadership and voice, not just manage behavior
You’re not just running a school, you’re developing future citizens. Empowering students to solve problems themselves builds lifelong skills and shifts the culture from punishment to ownership.
We believe that your students are the solution.
We'll help you turn student potential into real support - reducing student conflict while extending your impact to build a safer, more empowered school.
How we help:
1. The Student-Empowered Culture Quiz
Based on experiences leading Tier 1 and Tier 2 behavioral supports in a 1,000+ student middle school, our free 3 minute assessment reveals how you can empower your students in three key areas:
Relationship-Based Safety
Strong relationships create a safer school environment. Relationship-Based Safety emphasizes the importance of building and restoring connections within the school community.
Real-World Collaboration
When students regularly take on problems with real-world relevance, they gain a sense that their time matters. And when they do this with their peers, they build future-readiness.
Student Ownership
When school leaders embrace students as the driving force behind key initiatives, they inspire students to rise up and develop the skills to lead their future families, communities, and workplaces.
2. The Peacemaker Pathway™
When your school is ready, we help you transform a group of students into peer mediators who can resolve up to 15 student conflicts a week, using our:
Coaching
Regular check-ins to support you and your school, driven by our years of experience creating systems that support coordinators.
Custom Software
To build a sustainable program that lasts, we provide the software systems and training tools that make it a breeze.
Community
Never feel like you're doing it alone - celebrate wins and grow together with a community of like-minded school leaders.
How could this impact your school?
Our methodology is based on experiences in a middle school, which saw:
90%
Resolution Success
rate for conflicts referred to peer mediation.
Up to 15 Resolutions in a Week
for conflicts mediated by students.
Up to 7 Staff Hours Saved in a Week
by students managing conflict resolution.
Frequently Asked Questions
Question 1: What if I don't have time to run a program like this?
The Peacemaker Pathway does take 9-10 weeks to lay the foundations and train students, and another 7-8 weeks until the students are settled and proactively running the program. But, once the program is up and running and the students are given the ownership, you can expect students to proactively manage up to 15 mediations in a single week, and many dozens of hours of mediation time each year, year after year.
Question 2: Will my administration/teachers/staff support this?
We give you built-in tools to present the program to any school staff and to show measurable outcomes. We'll walk through the program with your administration to make sure that there's buy-in from the start, and help to make the whole school feel a part of this culture-changing program.
Question 3: What if I get stuck?
Our curriculum is designed to help school leaders and program coordinators at each step along the way, but if you do get stuck we have regular coaching calls to help answer any questions and provide direction, as well as a community of other Peacebuilders who will jump at the chance to help out!
Question 4: I’m not sure my students are ready to take on something this serious.
That’s a valid concern, and exactly why our training is built with middle schoolers in mind. The Peacemaker Pathway doesn’t assume students are ready on day one. It scaffolds their growth along with your growth, and we've seen it work with middle schoolers and we are confident it will work with yours. We’ve seen incredible success with students who had prior behavior issues or struggled with self-regulation - because being trusted as a mediator becomes a turning point.
Who we are:
Samuel and Michael
We started MediatorSPARK to reduce conflict and restore relationships in schools. Given Samuel's experience leading Tier 1 and Tier 2 supports in a middle school setting, we knew we'd do this by equipping school leaders to empower the next generation of Peacemakers, through peer mediation.
We work exclusively with Middle Schools, so that our programs are pinpoint-targeted for success
We build a sustainable system that can work forever - not just a one-time workshop
No other Peer Mediation Program offers the same comprehensive combination of resources and tools
Are you ready to multiply your impact?
