In episode two of Team Peace the Podcast, founder and executive director Kara Schmidt tells the story of how Team Peace began: with a single invitation in 2019 to visit one first grade classroom. Kara shares what those early lessons looked like, from movement and breathing to mindfulness, conversations about emotions, and plenty of play, and how word spread from one classroom to a whole grade, then to other schools. She explains how Team Peace now supports students and the adults around them, and why telling kids to “calm down” or “make a good choice” isn’t enough without teaching them how. Like reading, math, or riding a bike, these skills take instruction, repetition, and practice, and kids do best when the adults around them practice too.