2004

The InSpire Program was implemented in a Grades 4–12 alternative school in Pennsylvania with a population of at-risk students who engage in violence and who have been the subject of bullying. InSpire stands for the main tenets and student goals of the program: integrating self-control, perseverance, integrity, responsibility and excellence. To achieve these objectives, students were given alternative methods to conceptualize conflict, express differences, and solve problems. The InSpire Program provides students with access to the language of nonviolent confrontation as well as enabling them to view conflict as a process with multiple potential outcomes. This type of instruction can result in better adaptation to conflict and the development of more socially acceptable ways of expressing and solving differences