Peter and students reflect on group process:
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Peter Knowles (PK): I think one thing that most of them got was a better sense of how to deal with people you have to work with. And they had successes with it and they had failures with it, and, um, sometimes it was something that was real simple to fix and sometimes it was we-agree-to-disagree-type solution. But I think that awareness, um, helps out a lot, especially right off the bat, because they'll be in those classes with those kids for three more years and a lot of the classes will ask them to pair up or triple up or get in groups of four, or whatever, and work with each other on short-term basis and long-term basis with kids that they don't necessarily want to work with.

Kareesa, 9th Grade Student (K): So the group thing was really good and it's helpful. You got... We didn't have the same group the whole thing. We switched so we got to know different people, even if we like knew their names we just really got to know them and work with them. And we didn't just know them as students or, you know, someone just walking around. We knew them as friends or work partner. We didn't treat them any differently cause we didn't know 'em very good or we heard something about 'em.

(PK): I think there was...there was a sense by the end of the course that that was a lot of...a little bit easier to do because it wasn't going to kill 'em if they worked with somebody they didn't like. They had enough exposure and enough understanding about sort of the group process that it's not going to throw them in the future. Some of them are pretty good at it already and some of them are very good at actually making sure that the group process is taking place.

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