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Positive relationships are essential to an inclusive, safe learning environment for all students, especially middle school students. Peer mentoring plays a major role in creating this kind of relationship and helps to create a positive school tone and culture. Using transformative leadership as the theoretical framework to develop a peer mentoring program has the potential to exposing students to various meaningful cross-cultural experiences. It provides equitable and socially responsible learning for adolescents by creating schools that value diversity and prepare students to challenge forms of social dominance in the school and in their environment as they grow.  \nPositive relationships are essential to an inclusive and a safe learning environment for all students. Positive role models are especially important during adolescence, in order to prepare middle school students for life by exposing them to various and meaningful experiences, and helping them to reach their potential. Peer mentoring plays a major role in creating this kind of relationship and helps to create a positive school tone and culture. Strong social structures foster positive relationships among peers, provide a sense of inclusion and acceptance, and create just and equitable schools. The transformative leadership framework characterized by an overriding commitment to social justice, equality, and a democratic society (Theoharis , 2009) . It is therefore an ideal theoretical framework for the design of a peer mentoring program for middle school students.  \nPeer Mentoring  \nPeer mentoring involves an intense interpersonal exchange between an experienced person (mentor) and a less experienced person (protégé or mentee) for whom the mentor provides support, direction, and feedback for growth and personal development. The peer mentoring process therefore involves two or more individuals working together to develop the abilities of one individual (Shanklin & Brumage , 2011) . The mentors guide, teach, and influence their mentees in important ways. Peer mentoring in schools helps students to develop social support networks that will build their self-confidence and enable them to thrive among their peers (Good, Halpin & Halpin, 2000) . Bergerson & Petersen (2009) explained that the mentors also nurture the mentees’ academic aspirations. Through role modelling, emotional support and positive feedback, mentors influence their mentees’ perceptions of identity, self-worth, and the values that they place on schooling.  \nPeer mentoring builds strong relationships and cultivates a positive sense of belonging in students (Carlisle, 2011) . A positive sense of belonging, furthermore, correlates with constructive peer relationships. Goodenow (1993) also found that positive peer relationships and a sense of belonging in school are associated with students’ academic expectations for success (as cited in Carlisle, 2011) . Peer mentoring helps students to build positive relationships with their peers, which heightens their sense of belonging to their school and contributes to a positive school community.  \nPeer mentoring offers care and support that challenges the negative views that adolescents often hold of themselves (Bergerson & Petersen, 2009) . The mentors provide advice and support when their mentees face challenges in schoolwork, social issues, or generalized  \npressure or tension. Having an older youth to talk to or spend time with, and who provides encouragement and friendship, helps adolescents to develop positive attitudes toward school, and to develop strength and self-confidence to resist the pressures of being involved in antisocial behaviours. 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