- Curriculum developed by educators, taught by trained officers
- Focuses on responsibility, resisting peer pressure
- Implementation is community decision
- Elementary, intermediate, high school, after-school and parental components
- Training mandatory for instructors before they enter the classroom
- New science-based curricula from top researchers and curriculum writers with $14 million grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
—Research and principle based content
—Authentic activities
—Active learning principles and “best teaching” practices
—Complex reasoning and decision-making
—Officers as facilitators not lecturers
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