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    Peer Power: How to Peer Pressure Proof Your School
    Peer Power: How to Peer Pressure Proof Your School
    Peer Power: How to Peer Pressure Proof Your School
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    Peer Power: How to Peer Pressure Proof Your School

    By Deanna Rhinehart

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    Are Your Students Emotionally Safe at School?

    Why is it that students can spell the word respect and quote the definition but completely forget the concept in day-to-day conduct?

    Even more concerning is why 25% of youth contemplate suicide, one in six have a plan and two-million attempt it each year. That’s more than all the students enrolled in school in the states of WA, OR, and ID combined, every single year. Homicide and suicide are the 2nd and 3rd leading cause of death among youth and 4th among children only 10 to 14-years-old and no one even knows there is an epidemic taking our children’s lives.

    Studies conducted by the University of Texas reveal that students from schools with anti-bullying initiatives are more likely to be bullied than those without. Critical youth issues and campus culture are out of control with no real answers on the horizon— until now.

    IQ-EQ Education holds the answer for almost every critical youth issue because it unlocks the solutions from within the child themselves. In Peer Power...

    You’ll discover how 5-minutes a day can transform your class into a center of innovation, self-governance and high achievement by internally motivating students to succeed. 

    You’ll learn the magic secret sauce to get your students begging to come to class and stay engaged throughout!

    You’ll discover why traditional character education programs fall short and how emotional safety training and leadership education, through IQ-EQ connectors, flips peer pressure into peer power through the very forces that fuel it. It’s like fighting fire with fire, and it works— all while kids have a blast!

    Peer Power is an essential guide for every educator to provide emotional safety training, and leadership education in your class.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeanna Rhinehart
    Release dateFeb 10, 2017
    ISBN9781682734223
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      Peer Power - Deanna Rhinehart

      Introduction

      Are Your Students Emotionally Safe at School?

      Why is it that students can spell the word respect and quote the definition but completely forget the concept in day-to-day conduct?

      Even more concerning is why 25% of youth contemplate suicide, one in six have a plan and two-million attempt it each year. That’s more than all the students enrolled in school in the states of WA, OR, and ID combined, every single year. Homicide and suicide are the 2nd and 3rd leading cause of death among youth and 4th among children only 10 to 14-years-old and no one even knows there is an epidemic taking our children’s lives.

      Studies conducted by the University of Texas reveal that students from schools with anti-bullying initiatives are more likely to be bullied than those without. Critical youth issues and campus culture are out of control with no real answers on the horizon— until now.

      IQ-EQ Education holds the answer for almost every critical youth issue because it unlocks the solutions from within the child themselves. In Peer Power...

      You’ll discover how 5-minutes a day can transform your class into a center of innovation, self-governance and high achievement by internally motivating students to succeed. 

      You’ll learn the magic secret sauce to get your students begging to come to class and stay engaged throughout!

      You’ll discover why traditional character education programs fall short and how emotional safety training and leadership education, through IQ-EQ connectors, flips peer pressure into peer power through the very forces that fuel it. It’s like fighting fire with fire, and it works— all while kids have a blast!

      Peer Power is an essential guide for every educator to provide emotional safety training, and leadership education in your class.

      ARE YOUR STUDENTS EMOTIONALLY SAFE? 

      Each year 25% of our nation's youth contemplate suicide, one in six have a

      plan, and two-million attempt it.

      Together, we can stop this!

      This FREE Ebook is part of a grant worth $5 billion in resources for essential emotional safety training and leadership education. Your FREE resources include:

      The entire professional development course with optional credit, workbook download, and video lessons.

      The Webinar, Are Your Students Safe at School?

      The Essential-7 Overview pdf, and,

      The Parent Power mini-course to learn how to Emotionally vaccinate children from the top 3 causes of death among youth.

      You’ll discover how to decrease discipline issues, stop bullying, and develop a campus culture of self-governed, innovative, and high achieving students, all while they have a blast!  Click on the link below.

      Click here to get your FREE resources

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Table of Contents

      Legal Notes

      Chapter 1. A School Transformed

      Chapter 2. Critical Youth Issues

      Chapter 3. The Music Connection

      Chapter 4. Campus Culture

      Chapter 5. Peer Pressure

      Chapter 6. Emotional Safety

      Chapter 7. The RHOPE Strategy

      Chapter 8. Conclusion

      Sources

      Legal Notes

      © 2015 by Deanna Rhinehart. All rights reserved. Printed in the

      United States of America.

      Cover Design: Deanna Rhinehart

      Cover Photo: © Sunny Studio/Dollar Photo Club

      Hierarchy of Needs Business Diagram Illustration Photo:

      © Kheng Guan Toh /Dollar Photo Club

      Copyediting: Carolyn Morken

      ISBN-10: 1682734226

      ISBN-13: 9781682734223

      No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission, except for brief quotation in books and critical reviews. For more information, contact Championeers! www.championeers.com

      Expect children to amaze you...

      and they will!

      – Deanna Rhinehart

      Chapter 1

      A School Transformed

      In the early 1990s, young and eager for my first public school job, I took a K-12 music position in a rough, remote school in rural northwestern Washington. The school was in a small, isolated mountain town, but was as tough as it gets; poverty ran rampant. It was not uncommon to have three feet of standing snow, and yet we had students sleeping in chicken coops the entire winter. Many families did not have running water during the deep freeze months and were unable to properly bathe. Most children came to school cold, hungry, and in soiled clothing.

      The school itself had little funding, as the community could not support a levy. The majority of homes did not have proper plumbing, and houses close to the river pumped their raw sewage directly into it. The turn-of-the-century school building seemed to have more toilets out of commission than operational on any given day, and plumbing was only one of the aging building’s many issues. It was not uncommon for my basement classroom to have a quarter inch thick sheet of ice on the inside of my window. After a while, I stopped attempting to chip it off every morning, and just let it build up in hopes that it would offer some additional insulation for our freezing cold room. It was the first time I had been exposed to such blatant poverty.

      The driving conditions to the school were just as harrowing, as this particular mountain pass was notorious for fatalities. My winter commute entailed navigating along sheer rock cliffs and raging rivers while driving through flash blizzards, all on a winding, ice-covered, two-lane road. One morning I arrived to school so terrified from my commute that it took an hour for my body to stop shaking. I had never been more scared in my life than when I was driving through that particular white-out. With zero visibility and no way to turn around, it was a miracle I made it without going off the cliff into the river or hitting oncoming traffic. That day the school’s part-time counselor turned in his badge to the principal, refusing to ever make the drive again. He never returned.

      These unwelcoming conditions were reflected in attitudes throughout the community, as well. The town sheriff was a transplant from the Bronx, who transferred in to get out of the violent rat race of the big city and enjoy the serenity of the mountains. After a while, he decided people were easier to deal with back in the Bronx than in that little town, and requested a transfer back to the city. He dubbed it the antisocial community where people moved to escape society, creating an entire town of antisocial people who disliked everyone. It certainly felt that way.  These were my students, this was my school and this is where the Championeers! journey began.

      By the end of my first week I realized that no music method books sitting on my shelf were going to work with this group. These kids hated music and most of them hated me. How did I know? They told me so. It was not uncommon to have one particular six-foot-tall, drugged-out junior get two inches from my face and yell all the detailed reasons why he hated me, using all the profanities he could fit into his string of hurtful sentences. You wouldn’t think this would be allowed in school, but the reality was that there was no way the administration could stop it. Campus culture was out of control. Teachers were weary. Morale was non-existent. The school was already at a 50% drop-out rate and 50% of the remaining students were labeled with either learning or behavioral disabilities. What could administration do? Kick out every student in the school? I wasn’t even allowed to remove a child with unacceptable behavior from my classroom because they all had unacceptable behavior. There was simply no place to send them. The office would have been full (which it always was).

      These students played high stake games and music was irrelevant to them. I was even more irrelevant to them. When I received death threats I had to take them seriously: in a school where kids cut a teacher’s brake lines just for fun (remember the mountain roads), you’ve got life-threatening campus culture issues. One day the superintendent came to my class and asked if I’d step into the hall for a moment to answer a quick question. Gone for less than a minute, we suddenly heard a violent commotion inside the classroom. We ran into the classroom just in time to stop one of the kids from throwing another through the second story, plate-glass window, head first. Believe

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