This resource offers proven strategies for getting black male students in middle school and high school to value learning, improve their grades, and maintain high standards for themselves. The author shows how simple but powerful measure to instill self-worth in young black males can not only raise these students' achievement, but also profoundly alter their lives for the better.

Introduction -- Learning about Black male students to meet their classroom needs -- Learning about yourself to meet your Black male students' needs -- Three crises -- "Who am I?" -- Developing a young men's empowerment program -- Conclusion.