I want to share with potential book buyers that the design of this book is already PROVEN as a method that can help us improve our good habits. Our non-profit public school program, based on the same monthly habit-building strategy as my book, Join the Golden Rule Revolution, is currently serving 5,600 students in the greater Pittsburgh Region. Results of this habit-building program in its pilot test school increased the student honor roll by 18%, doubled the number of students doing homework regularly, and reduced detentions and suspensions by 25% after a 93% rise. Below is the letter from the principal of this school, which is excerpted from the Forward of the book.
FORWARD
Melvin H. Steals, Ph.D.
Before the good fortune that brought Elaine Parke into my middle school building, it was one of the most violent and lowest performing middle schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. No one, including this principal, was safe from physical assault. This was due in no small part to the pervasion of a pernicious street culture and the widespread belief among the students that few of their teachers truly cared about them. It was at this point that Elaine appeared upon the scene.
The adjective that best describes the effect that she engendered is angelic. She unleashed a powerful tidal wave of positive emotion within our midst that we had never before experienced. In short, her Caring Habit of the Month Adventure program not only had a profoundly positive impact upon the feeling tone within the building, it also caused everyone who came into our school to be more caring about each other.
In closing, I have seen firsthand and personally experienced the chaos that has invaded many of our nation's schools. Elaine Parke's clearly defined prescriptions for positive change significantly reduced the fear that used to make learning so difficult within my former middle school.
I would highly recommend her book, The GOLDEN RULE REVOLUTION to everyone, and her Caring Habit of the Month Adventure program to any school district that has any concerns about operating a safe and orderly learning environment.
Yours Truly, Melvin H. Steals, Ph.D. Middle School Principal