Bullying can cause an enormous amount of stress, fear, and anxiety in young kids. This behavior not only affects the victims, but research shows that childhood bullies are more likely to have negative peer relationships and significant issues later in life. Consequently, children must learn that they teach others how to treat them. Teachers should support children in learning how to assertively deal with the intrusive behaviors of others. Conflicts that arise in classrooms offer a rich opportunity to teach children life skills. This session will transform adult perception of conflict from seeing misbehavior to seeing a call for help. Conferees will be empowered to reframe their negative perceptions about peer-to-peer struggles and classroom disruptions and use daily classroom conflict as an opportunity to teach students life skills. Accordingly, teachers will be equipped to focus on assertive solutions by teaching victims to use a self-assured voice and aggressors to use effective verbal communication strategies in times of conflict. Conferees will leave this session with new skills and resources of how to turn classroom conflicts into shared cooperation by using conflicts as an opportunity to teach missing social-emotional skills.