Starting puppetry in corrections

We are beginning to work with our high school kids to make social skills puppet shows. It is a great way for them to learn the skills!!

Nate demonstrating the melt at hillcrest

Nate does a great job with the 4,7,8 breath and the entire melt. I was so proud of him

Staff celebrating early thanksgiving

Here is a picture of my staff and volunteers out to lunch today to celebrate thanksgiving. And we wish all of you happy thanksgiving as well!!

Nate demonstrating the melt

This is great group living staff member showing the rest of the class how to melt

Hillcrest training in Cincinnati

Here we are training group living staff where they will follow up in the evening with peace4kids activities like goal setting, listening and social skills

Our after school training program in social skills

This program is in four elementary schools weekly we start with circuit training then follow with a gathering and end with a Peace4 kids lesson. The students are responding well

Special Ed conference in Chicago

Nancy Garcia and I enjoyed presenting on social intelligence yesterday to some wonderful educators in Illinois. We had good feedback and the participants said that they really enjoyed themselves!!

Super nanny visit this morning

One of the activities our non profit does is to go into homes and help families organize their lives so they can bring up their children well here we are starting with a family today!!

Here is where jessica ridgeway was sbducted

We put purple mementos here in memory of jessica. The site is so
visible. Hopefully someone saw something. Just look!

Our Center for Safe Schools after school program

We are working with four elementary schools to teach kids social competency and academic success. They do circuits and then they work on setting character trait goals. Awesome

Psychologists from the Netherlands helping to plan this next Denver conference in June

Amanda Sullivan , Nancy Garcia, Ruud Hornsveld and student Dice with me in Denver sharing ideas!

Reactive anger cycle

Here is a neat rendition if the reactive anger cycle which gets kids into a negative pattern. It goes along with the lesson in the curriculum

New level system for middle school self contained

Used successfully by special educator Ananda Sullivan from Denver Public Schools this level system uses sharks as the behavior benchmarks! She is using these now!

New character trait poster for elementary kids

Today we put the finishing touches on our big character trait poster for elementary children. Isnt this neat??

Curcuit training for our at risk kids

When we run our after school social competence training activities we always start with curcuit training and having the kids set goals related to the curcuits. This is also good for following directions

Proactive anger cycle

This is a different way to show students the oriactive anger cycle. The regular one us in the curriculum.