From 2011-2012 I did research on strategies to lower and prevent drop out in public and private schools in Alabama under a program: Ethics Education and Empowerment sponsored by District 5 State School Board Member Ella B. Bell. I chose to use a methodology of looking at factors that increase school success rather than focus on school failure, glancing back at past actions while looking forward to our desired destination. I am going to share some things we learned from the re