Dr. Crim's Four-Part Strategy
1. The belief by the community at large must include the following factors: Students must feel that people who are important to them must believe in the goal. School staff must develop a community of believers that includes peers, parents, educators at all levels, business persons, members of the clergy, and citizens-at-large. The public perception must be one of seeing students as winners rather than losers.
2. Students must be shown evidence that they are doing something worthwhile. Students must be helped to appreciate the rise in achievement. They must see themselves and others securing jobs and college placements.
3. Students must be given opportunities to express their views on the goals we set for them. This condition requires students to talk with adults rather than turning only to their peers for understanding.
4. Students must be challenged to improve their own performances. There can be no one model of a challenge for youth that will be imposed from the top, but thousands of conscious, decentralized experiments devised by caring adults that will attempt to drive students on.
Dr. Crim's Four-Part Strategy
1. The belief by the community at large must include the following factors: Students must feel that people who are important to them must believe in the goal. School staff must develop a community of believers that includes peers, parents, educators at all levels, business persons, members of the clergy, and citizens-at-large. The public perception must be one of seeing students as winners rather than losers.
2. Students must be shown evidence that they are doing something worthwhile. Students must be helped to appreciate the rise in achievement. They must see themselves and others securing jobs and college placements.
3. Students must be given opportunities to express their views on the goals we set for them. This condition requires students to talk with adults rather than turning only to their peers for understanding.
4. Students must be challenged to improve their own performances. There can be no one model of a challenge for youth that will be imposed from the top, but thousands of conscious, decentralized experiments devised by caring adults that will attempt to drive students on.