PEP Clap-Out Ceremony Signals New Beginnings On Friday, Oct. 27 all of the students and staff at PEP Chesnutt stood together in a circle jubilantly giving high fives to three of their peers who are returning to public school in their home districts. The moment was truly joyous with happy shouts and drumming filling the
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Building Self-Confidence Through Community Service at PEP When she first started as a student at PEP Hopewell, Erica wouldn’t speak to anyone. Sometimes she would get so overwhelmed in the classroom she would just get up and walk out. She seemed afraid of being noticed. “Probably her biggest challenge when she started was her self-confidence,”
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We Don’t Do Outdoor Education for Fun “Absolutely not,” Lana* said defiantly, glaring at the water and crossing her arms over her chest. “I’m not kayaking.” From the moment she learned her class would be kayaking, Lana, a high school student at one of Positive Education Program’s Day Treatment Centers, had been very vocal about
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From Skeptic to Believer When Lori Murphy began the training process to earn her Wilson Reading System© Level I Certification nearly five years ago, she was a skeptic. At the time, she was a teacher-counselor for PEP Phoenix and Positive Education Program was encouraging more of its teachers to become certified in the program, one
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