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Gilbert, AZ: Six Pillar Saturdays Stem Disciplinary Problems

Gilbert Public Schools implemented a Saturday class to reinforce the Six Pillars. Aimed at discipline-referred students, the program serves as a "boot camp, an intervention before discipline problems escalate."

A component of the course is a worksheet entitled “Self-portrait,” where students draw themselves both as they perceive themselves and as others may. "How you judge yourself and how [you judge] others are not always the same," one 13-year-old student told the Arizona Republic in December 2005. "I think it's helped.”

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