“…This viewpoint of the adolescent served to perpetuate negative stereotypes of adolescents as selfish and mired in conflict (Romer, Reyna, & Satterthwaite, 2017). In contrast to this “problem-centered vision of youth” (Damon, 2004, p. 14), movements such as the Positive Youth Development Approach (Benson, Scales, Hamilton, & Sesma, 2007; Damon, 2004), Social and Emotional Learning (SEL; casel.org), Positive Psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), and its derivative field, Positive Education (Galloway & Reynolds, 2015; Norrish, Williams, O’Connor, & Robinson, 2013), reorient our focus to the strengths, competencies, and potential that adolescents hold to positively shape the world around them.…”