Dear Friends,  In the movies when a character, especially a woman, goes through a transformational experience, their appearance changes dramatically to reflect the changes within. Maybe that’s why, several times during my sabbatical, my kids asked me if I was going to shave my head. While I am returning to Girls Leadership feeling different than …

Creating belonging for young people is not a one-and-done project. It’s a cycle of effort, learning, and improvement. Does that sound like an opportunity—or does it already sound exhausting? For any educator who feels tired just thinking about working toward another goal, you’re not alone. K-12 education is still seeing the highest rates of burnout …

Welcome to Belonging in Action, a series about how Girls Leadership creates sustainable support for students and teachers. Today’s post asks, How did you learn SEL?  Our facilitators ask this question of all the participating adults before most of our trainings, and in most cases, the answers are the same: they didn’t. Social and emotional …