Building Confidence, Promoting Wellness, and Empowering Teen Girls to Lead.
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Helping Teens Trust Their Intuitions Through Imagination and Mindful Meditation
This semester we have been working with our students to learn to connect to and trust their intuitions. At Coastside…
Compassionate Leadership: Helping Others Through Service Learning
The holiday season is here, and I have been thinking about ways to help my students think beyond themselves to…
Self-Worth Reflection for Teens
Teaching students to be self-advocates is a common outcome goal in high school programs. In working with my students at…
Global Awareness from a Journalist’s Perspective
With the upsetting and horrifying news coming from Palestine and Israel recently, we chose Global Awareness as the theme of…
Independent Student Inquiry Projects
This year at Coastside Leadership Academy, we wanted to find ways to encourage our students to delve deeper into our…
Ask For Help and Then Trust
Over the summer Coastside Leadership Academy officially became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and this week I led my first Board…
Lessons From Hot Yoga
I am new to practicing yoga. I started going to classes this summer because my husband and friends enjoy going,…
Maslow Then Bloom
The phrase “advocate for yourself” is commonly used in social emotional learning curriculums, and this week at Coastside Leadership Academy,…
Empowered By Power Tools
Our first unit of the year at Coastside Leadership Academy is Environmental Literacy. Last week our students started to learn…
Learning Boundaries From Arthur
For the past month, my cat Arthur’s eating schedule has been off. I usually feed him breakfast at 5am when…
