I wish I could help my students make better decisions in social situations.

Your official title might be middle school math teacher or high school English teacher. But you know that your most important role is to teach students. Working with adolescents, you realize that what happens outside the classroom can greatly influence the quality of learning that takes place inside the classroom. And the emotions, activities and conversations around dating relationships occupy a tremendous amount of your students' time and energy.

With Here's What You Can Do you have a unique opportunity to help students acquire information and skills, process situations and interpret their decisions in many social situations, including their dating relationships. The purpose of this program is to seamlessly blend some of the concepts you usually teach your students with important information they need to know about relationship behavior and dating violence.

Here's What You Can Do is comprised of academic lessons based on current research on adolescent cognition, decision making and risk-taking. Learning algebra or understanding character development shares some of the same cognitive skills highlighted in this program. The lessons and accompanying materials provide students with practice clarifying, understanding, and evaluating information, summarizing different perspectives, comparing and contrasting characteristics, and applying these skills to real-world situations.

Classroom teachers like you do not generally teach these concepts. But without your help and interest, your students may never have the opportunity to learn these lifelong skills.

Please take a few minutes to read through the materials to see why this program will provide your students with some of the most important lessons they could ever learn.