Power/Excel provides programs for students in middle and high school to assist them in increasing achievement and reducing anti-social behavior.  Through interactive exercises we build skills to reduce the impact of negative peer pressure and create a goal-centered structure that facilitates learning.  Here are several projects recently conducted with the Baltimore City Public Schools:
Francis Scott Key Middle School 1990 – 97
One hundred students participated in a course in personal development offered as an elective during the school day. Concurrently students participated in one of two service learning projects:

1. Intergenerational Project: Companionship for the elderly in the South Baltimore community
2.  Horticulture Project – Designing a perennial garden at the entrance of their school

Lemmel Middle School 1992 – 93
Twenty students participated in a course in personal development offered as an elective during the school day. Concurrently students participated in an intergenerational service learning project – companionship for the elderly in the West Baltimore community.
High School Programs
Fall, 2003 – BCPSS Department of Violence Prevention
Forty high school students participated in a retreat in West Virginia to enjoy a weekend of educational workshops, nature walks, and discussions. Power/Excel faciltators conducted an interactive workshop in conflict resolution addressing skills for active listening, dialoguing, and managing highly emotional situations.

1. Southwestern High School Spring, 2002 – Alternative Education for Credit Recovery
   Sixty students, who dropped out of school, attended alternative high school in the evening (twilight school) to attain credits needed for graduation.  Students enrolled in the Power/Excel course entitled Career Readiness, an approved course for elective credit in the curriculum for Baltimore City Schools.
   
   Topics covered:
   • Developing strategies for success
   • Active Listening
   • Conflict Resolution
   • Service learning
   • Evaluation of career opportunites –presentation by volunteer weekly speakers from the greater Baltimore     community
   • Developing presentation skills and a career readiness portfolio

Summer Session – Southwestern High School Summer 2002 – Students taking remedial courses
Two hundred fifty students participated with Power/Excel facilitators who presented short 20 minute modules covering four concepts in every class to support students in achieving success.  Sixty students were awarded certificates for outstanding participation.  (Picture required)