Art Stewart
Virginia Dept. of EducationP.O. Box 2120
Richmond, VA 23218-2120
Telephone: 804-786-0711
Fax: 804-371-8796
E-Mail: Arthur.Stewart@doe.virginia.gov
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Art Stewart has been a practicing mediator and trainer for twenty seven years, coordinating the mediation service of the Massachusetts Department of Education from 1985 until 1999. He is now a consultant mediator and trainer and coordinates the SSEMS program for the Virginia DOE.
In 1990, in Denver and Atlanta, he designed and delivered a training program to familiarize attorneys and advocates practicing in education disputes with ethical practices in negotiation and mediation for the LRP Publishing Company.
In 1996, Stewart was interviewed for a nationwide televised broadcast sponsored by NASDSE to inform states of considerations in providing mediation in special education disputes. Stewart has testified before state legislatures and committees of the U.S. Senate on the use of mediation in special education.
Stewart has served as a course developer and trainer with the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. He is a Senior Consultant to CADRE.
A veteran trainer, he has worked with over 1500 attorneys, educators, parents and advocates on negotiation and mediation skills. In MA, he regularly brought parent advocates, attorneys, teachers and administrators together in one room to jointly identify approaches to effective negotiation.
A past president of the Framingham Court Mediation Services and the Massachusetts Association of Mediation Programs and Practitioners, Stewart has long supported the development of mediation as an effective forum for dispute resolution.
In 1990, in Denver and Atlanta, he designed and delivered a training program to familiarize attorneys and advocates practicing in education disputes with ethical practices in negotiation and mediation for the LRP Publishing Company.
In 1996, Stewart was interviewed for a nationwide televised broadcast sponsored by NASDSE to inform states of considerations in providing mediation in special education disputes. Stewart has testified before state legislatures and committees of the U.S. Senate on the use of mediation in special education.
Stewart has served as a course developer and trainer with the Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. He is a Senior Consultant to CADRE.
Services Offered
- Conflict Prevention
- Conflict Resolution System Design
- Facilitator - Group
- Interagency Collaboration
- Mediation Services - ADA
- Mediation Services - Facilitative
- Mediation Services - IDEA 2004 State Listed
- Mediation Services - Multi-party
- Mediation Services - Transformative
- Multicultural Experience
- Organizational Development
- Trainer - Advanced Mediation Skills
- Trainer - Basic Mediation Skills
- Trainer - Negotiation Skills
Special Education and Conflict Resolution Experience
Stewart has twenty six years of experience mediating issues in special education. He has helped start new programs and provided initial training in Vermont, Michigan, Virginia and Tennessee. He has trained mediators and consulted to programs in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Arizona, New Jersey and Wisconsin and for the Great Lakes, New England and Mid South Regional Resource Centers. He has trained the New England construction and insurance panels for the American Arbitration Association. He co-founded the Conflict Intervention Team In MA which mediates issues of large scale conflict in schools. In MA he has been sought to resolve deadlocks among school boards, school faculties, schools and their communities. Stewart has done workplace, family and community mediations.A veteran trainer, he has worked with over 1500 attorneys, educators, parents and advocates on negotiation and mediation skills. In MA, he regularly brought parent advocates, attorneys, teachers and administrators together in one room to jointly identify approaches to effective negotiation.
A past president of the Framingham Court Mediation Services and the Massachusetts Association of Mediation Programs and Practitioners, Stewart has long supported the development of mediation as an effective forum for dispute resolution.