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Lessons Girls Can Learn from Election 2020

Posted by Laura Perillo on Jan 22, 2021 11:25:17 AM

While every election season brings us hot-button issues, the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election specifically focused on the economy, health care, the global COVID-19 pandemic, race and ethnic inequality, Supreme Court appointments and more. While it’s easy to get caught up in the hype and social media craze, it’s essential that families take a deep breath, step back and find the silver linings from election 2020 to help our children understand the significance.

Perhaps one of the most important silver linings is that there are many lessons that girls can learn about from these last few months from Election Day 2020 through this week’s Inauguration Day.

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Topics: election, all-girls, high school, middle school, history

What Girls Can Learn from Taylor Swift’s 'Miss Americana' Documentary

Posted by Meghan Hodgin on Mar 2, 2020 11:00:00 AM

When you hear the name Taylor Swift, what comes to mind? Pop music, blond hair, little miss perfect? Or, if you’re like me, you think all of those things but with a little more country twang. Wait, it isn’t 2006 anymore and I am sad.

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Topics: all-girls, students, building confidence

10 Questions with National Coalition of Girls' Schools' Megan Murphy

Posted by Meghan Hodgin on Nov 11, 2019 11:00:00 AM

We recently caught up with Megan Murphy, the Executive Director of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools after she visited the Oak Knoll School campus earlier this fall. Here, she talks about issues facing girls’ schools, her hope for empowering girls’ voices and girls' school misconceptions.

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Topics: education, all-girls, high school, students, independent catholic school summit nj, private school, middle school, building confidence

Building Confidence in Middle School Girls

Posted by Nicole Johnston on Apr 8, 2019 11:00:00 AM

While sitting on the beach last summer, I watched my 5-year-old goddaughter walk over to a little girl she did not know, introduce herself, and ask her to play. Two girls, who never met, becoming fast friends. They would spend the day building sandcastles, sharing snacks, and running in and out of the ocean – not thinking twice about the waves that towered over them. Most likely this is a common story experienced by many beach-goers. Insert a middle school girl into this picture, and the story line completely changes. The middle school girl will never make that initial introduction and will not run in and out of the ocean carefree. Why? Because all those initiatives we easily took when we were young, involve taking a risk. Girls’ capacity to take risks diminishes as they grow older starting around their middle school years.

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Topics: all-girls, middle school, building confidence

The Real Benefits of An All-Girls' School

Posted by Meghan Hodgin on Jan 9, 2018 5:09:59 PM

Let’s face it, middle school and high school can be a challenging time. You're trying to figure out who you are and how you fit into the world around you. While we strongly recommend boys and girls learn together during their younger, more impressionable years, going to an all-girls' school during middle and high school helps girls focus more on who they want to become and what their strengths are.

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Topics: all-girls, high school, middle school

3 Reasons Computer Science Is Important at An All-Girls High School

Posted by Camille Burke on Dec 21, 2016 12:00:00 AM

With a generation of learners who grew up in an age of the Internet, smartphones and 3-D printers, robotics and computer programming are playing a more important role in educational curricula than ever before.

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Topics: technology, engineering, education, computer science, all-girls, high school, STEM, Math, science

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Lessons Girls Can Learn from Election 2020

What Girls Can Learn from Taylor Swift’s 'Miss Americana' Documentary

10 Questions with National Coalition of Girls' Schools' Megan Murphy

Building Confidence in Middle School Girls

The Real Benefits of An All-Girls' School

3 Reasons Computer Science Is Important at An All-Girls High School

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