An essential feature of Positive Peer Culture is the group meeting.
Students continue to stay with their group throughout the day.
Here a group works together on a gardening project on the grounds of the Academy. The basic unit of social cohesion and mutual support is the group, which remains together for social, academic and residential activities. Peer influence is the most powerful, motivating force behind the choices and actions of many adolescents. Edwin Gould Academy believes in creating an alternative to the street culture in which so many youth grow up and form their value system. Students at the Academy belong to a 12 member peer group.