Elementary Schools
Middle Schools
International High Schools
Train-the-Trainer Program
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The Girls Project for Upper Elementary School Girls
Girls, ages 10 to 12, come together every week after-school for a twenty-five week series of Girls Project workshops. Through hands-on activities, group discussions, art, and social action, girls delve into issues that interest and affect them – from body image and media messages to puberty and health. All elementary school Girls Project workshops culminate in a community action project as well as a public exhibition of their work. Employing the visual and performing arts throughout the workshop series and during the end-of-the-year performance, girls have the chance to express themselves creatively and make manifest what they have learned and experienced through The Girls Project.
The Girls & Boys Projects has proudly partnered with educators and students in the following Elementary Schools:
PS 19, PS 63, PS 15, PS 89 (Queens), PS 3 (Brooklyn), The Children's Workshop School, The Neighborhood School, The Earth School, East Village Community, Fred R. Moore Academy.
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The Girls Project during Middle School Advisory
Middle School Advisory is a scheduled time during the school day when students meet with a staff member (their advisor) to address social, emotional, and academic issues. As outlined in 1989 by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, “Every student should be well known by at least one adult. Students should be able to rely on that adult to help learn from their experiences, comprehend physical changes and changing relations with family and peers…” Our Girls Project middle school curriculum helps accomplish this goal. Through a series of twenty-five workshops that address the social and emotional life of adolescent girls, including relationships, teasing and bullying, their changing bodies, and sexuality, middle school girls and their advisors tackle issues that can detract from a girl’s academic performance. Through this process, girls and advisors begin to build a strong sense of community within a school setting, strengthening the girls’ support system and sense of safety during an often tumultuous time in their development.
The Girls Project Middle School Partnerships:
East Side Community School, Henry Street Middle School, Institute for Collaborative Education, Middle School 328, Robert Wagner Middle School (SSAT), TASS (Technology, Arts, Sciences Studio), Tompkins Square Middle School.
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The Girls Project in International High Schools
In several New York City International High Schools, serving immigrant youth, we are running both after- and in-school Girls Project programs for teenage girls, ages 15 to 18. Either as an after-school program that combines physical activity, dance, and yoga with GP themes or as an in-school elective consisting of a twenty-five week program, over 100 young immigrant girls participate in The Girls Project yearly. Often for the first time, these girls explore the myths and realities of what it means to be a young woman in America, and learn more about media influence, stereotypes, healthy relationships, their changing bodies, sexuality, and many other issues important to them as they adjust to life in their new surroundings.
The Girls Project High School Partnerships:
Bronx International HS, Brooklyn International HS, Flushing International HS, International HS (Canarsie), International High School at Prospect Heights, Manhattan Comprehensive Day and Night High School, Mlia Mbeya High School (Tanzania), Queens International, The School at Columbia University, School for Excellence.
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The Girls & Boys Projects CBOs and Other Partnerships:
500 Genders, Academy for Young Writers, Breakthrough NY, Brooklyn Mothers Collective, Children's Aid Society, Chinese American Planning Council, Girl Scouts of America, Girls for Gender Equity, Girls Write Now, Global Kids, Goddard Riverside Community Center Beacon, Grand Street Settlement, Harlem Childrens Zone, I Have A Dream Program, Love Heals, Lower East Side Girls Club (LESGC), Mayan (JCC), PHIPPS Community, Development Corp, Queens Library, Red Hook Initiative, Truth AIDS, WHEDCO, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Youngstown State University
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