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Peers Not Fears is revolutionizing the perception of leadership within schools. Our offerings are designed for students, educators, and administrators alike, aiming to foster skills that bolster the growth of student leaders both during and beyond their high school years. 

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Struggles with student management and engagement often stem from a lack of student empowerment. Building a stronger community requires understanding and fostering connections, which means listening to the students.

Peers Not Fears aims to reduce fear in schools by promoting peer-to-peer relationships, enhancing engagement, and empowering students to work together to address challenges.

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School Adminstrators

Teenagers

Parents and Teens

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Projects we have done

Our services focus on empowering students, whether we're working with staff or students directly. We offer both monthly and multi-day options, tailoring our approach to each group's unique needs.

Even without school-led leadership programs, teens can develop their skills individually through our online, self-paced academy or join our monthly tailored group option. Set yourself up for success!

Explore our achievements, partnerships, and the leaders we're nurturing by taking a look here.

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Leadership Frequently Asked Questions

Understanding leadership and the development of the skills around leadership can be difficult when we think leadership is a natural ability, or we need a title to be a leader. Find some of the commonly asked questions about why leadership development is important, and why our teenagers should be developing leadership skills.

How do you develop student leadership?

Student leadership is happening all the time. One of the myths about student leadership is that it has to be a title or a position. We need to work on seeing student leadership in all the places it shows up. Teamwork, lab partners, and study partners for example.

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Peers not Fears takes the idea that it is happening everywhere and elevates it further. In every high school, we struggle with study hall. Giving students a break from academic rigor, and finding time to catch up on some work. Not every student needs this time the same way, and often it is when students are bored and become disruptive.  

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We use this time to build skills for students who want to engage with their peers in a problem-solving systematic approach to leadership.

What is leadership development?

Leadership development is something that we do all the time - it's just a matter of facing challenges head-on. For high school students in particular, exposure to challenging events and situations will help them develop leadership skills.

Our peer-led programs give adolescents the opportunity to learn about and develop their leadership skills by working together in challenging yet fun activities. We pose a challenge for students, rewarding them when they solve it together and then helping them process how they used their leadership abilities to achieve this goal.

Rephrase Leadership skills are effective when used in conjunction with an engaging activity. Communication, goal setting, and working together are all important aspects of leadership development; as we work together to achieve a common goal, our leadership abilities develop.

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