> Odeh has watched this idea transform his students’ behavior over the course of the school year: “I’ve seen students in the program in the hallway pulling thei

> Odeh has watched this idea transform his students’ behavior over the course of the school year: “I’ve seen students in the program in the hallway pulling their fellow students away from the start of a fight, just repeating and reminding them, ‘Warrior energy, warrior energy.’ ” This was the most significant bit for me. Getting their thinking and behavioral pattern to change and creating a social enforcement around it. Inarguably, this is what school should be about; because so many kids do not get the right kind of nurturing they need at home, and lead destructive broken lives as a result, only perpetuating things further in their own children, and so on.