Abstract
Middle school students who feel alienated from the educational process often engage in interactions with teachers and peers that interfere with optimal functioning in the school environment. Models of intervention focusing solely on changing the students' behaviors fail to engage this group who avidly deny that they have a problem. This article demonstrates the successful use of the empowerment model of activity based, group work with alienated, middle class eighth grade boys in a suburban middle school. Through the planning, organization and final production of a musical event, the “Battle of the Bands”, the boys increased their feelings of selfconfidence and self-efficacy, improved their interpersonal skills with teachers and peers and received recognition for their positive contributions to a school event.
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