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 …

Based on our many years of running programs, and countless conversations with girls, parents, caregivers, and educators, we know that our work is impactful. Yet we’re always so deeply moved to hear how our programs and tools help people make positive change in their lives. We had an opportunity to chat with Alejandra Cardenas, a …

  Try this “Relax, Risk, and Reckless” comfort zones lesson. It is included in the Girls Leadership curriculum from our Belonging in Sports workshop for sports educators and coaches on May 21. Join us April 14-16 in Oakland, CA for our Collective Belonging training. Every day at Girls Leadership we ask students, parents and caregivers, …

The wellness needs of students, especially girls and gender-expansive youth (anxiety and depression in teen girls is twice the rate of boys), have evolved and intensified during the past few years, so it’s more crucial than ever for all of us adults working and supporting girls and gender-expansive youth to nurture warm and authentic relationships …

After two years of virtual everything, it was both shocking and wonderful to watch my colleagues Hénia Belalia and Cassandra Brown make magic at SXSW EDU this month for Girls Leadership’s session, Co-creating Justice-Centered SEL with Students. During this session, Hénia and Cassandra shared our curriculum development process, which is based in Liberatory Design and …