Empowering Youth

Positive Peers was simply to be an activity used with a group of young persons whether a classroom, a whole class in a school or perhaps even the entire school. The hope was to foster the development of youth in a way that would improve their performance as well as that of the school organization by using a tightly constructed activity.

Positive Peers was simply to be an activity used with a group of young persons whether a classroom, a whole class in a school or perhaps even the entire school. The hope was to foster the development of youth in a way that would improve their performance as well as that of the school organization by using a tightly constructed activity. While the book is not about newly discovered concepts, it is about a new and fresh total approach in the use of established concepts, some better known than others. It is about organizing around those concepts in new ways using a youth-centered system to produce higher functioning youth and youth organizations.

Chuck Gobel achieved undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and taught English at the high school level. He was also a high school principal. Subsequent to leaving his school roles, he represented school administrators and supervisors in Milwaukee as the executive director of their organization. Nicholas Schaeve served as a teacher, counselor, human relations program facilitator and principal working mainly in Milwaukee's public inner city elementary, middle and high schools. He completed graduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and Marquette University with a focus on counseling studies and educational psychology and later completed a sequence in educational administration at Marquette University. Dr. Schaeve is a Life Member of the American Psychological Association.