Instruction - Many schools are helping students develop skills that will help them become successful employees, good parents, and good citizens. Others focus on teaching problem solving and conflict management using programs like peer mediators. Still others are using school-wide social skills programs. Relationships Relationships are fundamental to any effort to ensure that all students are successful. Mentoring programs, adult to peer and peer to peer, provide students with significant attachments that are critical.
Parents collaborating with the school is key to their efforts.
Here there is a great deal of cooperation and collaboration among schools, churches, community organizations, and families to work together to solve these problems. They also often offer tutoring. Students who achieve academically are less likely to have problem behaviors. Finally, involving youth in service and in leadership opportunities and decision making about things that affect them is another strategy that helps students develop healthy behaviors and attitudes rather than hostile, aggressive attitudes and behaviors. D.C. Paulsen teaches Agriculture Education in grades 9-12 at Carroll High School.