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NCGS Announces New Executive Director
The Board of Trustees of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools is pleased to announce the selection of Megan K. Murphy as the next Executive Director beginning July 1, 2012. After an extensive search the Board voted unanimously to engage Ms. Murphy to lead the organization forward. The new Executive Director is charged with the ongoing implementation of the NCGS 2013 Strategic Way Forward goals: to establish NCGS and its member schools as thought leaders in educating girls, to build...
Two $10,000 scholarships are available to qualified applicants from NCGS member schools for Fall 2012 or Spring 2013 semesters.
Do You Know a Coastal Studies Girl? Two $10,000 scholarships are available to qualified applicants from NCGS member schools for Fall 2012 or Spring 2013 semesters. This semester school offers an extraordinary 16 week semester for 10th grade girls to live and learn in Maine. CSG features a marine science and leadership curriculum in addition to rigorous core subjects of English, history, math and foreign languages. Freshman girls may apply now for Fall 2012 or Spring 2013 semesters. Admissions...
Young Women’s Leadership Network Featured in Education Update
In the March/April 2012 issue of Education Update, the following article appeared: GUEST EDITORIAL Young Women’s Leadership Network Provides Beacon for Girls’ Education By Ann R. Tisch & Kathleen Ponze As an organization that has dedicated the last 15 years to developing the next generation of women leaders from the population of inner city minority girls we serve, we salute Education Update’s special March issue. We believe that all girls’ education is a rich soil for training and motivating girls to...
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Ellis School Art Students Win An Unprecedented Four Scholastic Art Awards
(Pittsburgh, PA) May 2, 2012 Four students at The Ellis School have earned national recognition in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2012, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. All awards were for visual art and photography. Ellis’ four winners are: · Sophia Sterling-Angus’15 (Shadyside) Gold Medal 5 o’clock Photography · Lucy Crelli ’13 (Squirrel Hill) Silver Medal Self Esteem Drawing · Charlotte Forsythe ’16 (Shadyside) Silver Medal Shredded Tree Photography · Annie Gordon ’15 (Thornburg/Crafton) ...
Saint Mary’s School Names 13th Head of School
RALEIGH, NC – Saint Mary’s School Board of Trustees Chairman William G. Taylor of Charlotte announced today to an assembly of students, faculty and staff in Pittman Auditorium, that Monica M. Gillespie, Ph.D., has been named the 13th head of Saint Mary’s School in its 170-year history, effective July 1, 2012. Dr. Gillespie earned B.A., M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia, with her doctoral dissertation focused on independent school leadership. As an undergraduate at Virginia, she played...
Roland Park Country School Demonstrates Its Commitment To The Environment
From The Baltimore Sun, April 26, 2012, “Roland Park Country School highlights its partial conversion to solar energy” In an effort to “shine a light on solar energy,” Roland Park Country School staged a “Solarbration” on April 22 to pay tribute to Earth Day and the school’s own stewardship of the environment. “We celebrated our partial conversion to solar energy and the importance of renewable energy in protecting our own health and the health of all living things,” school spokeswoman...
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Free Webinar-Girls’ Schools as Hardiness Zones: Empowering Girls at School
The Hardy Girls Healthy Women Training Institute and NCGS invite you to join us for a webinar, Girls’ Schools as Hardiness Zones: Empowering Girls at School on Wednesday, April 25, 4:30-5:30 PM EST. Imagine a school where all girls are challenged and empowered. Where all adults are muses or role models who inspire and support students. Where the entire school acts as a coalition, and all girls see each other as allies. Many girls’ schools share this unique vision with...
NCGS Discount for “Moving Beyond ‘Mean Girls’” Webinar Series
Hardy Girls Healthy Women is offering a special discount to NCGS members for its upcoming webinar series Moving Beyond “Mean Girls”: Building Girls’ Coalition Groups. SPECIAL OFFER FOR NCGS: This webinar series is just $195 for NCGS members – a savings of $55 off our regular fee! Enter coupon code NCGS at registration to get this discount. Hardy Girls Healthy Women and its acclaimed girls’ group curriculum have been turning adversaries into allies in middle schools for years. Their research-based...
Save the Date for the National Conference on Girls’ Education!
Mark your calendars on February 10-12, 2012 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington D.C. for the inaugural National Conference on Girls’ Education, co-founded by The Young Women’s Leadership Network (YWLN) and The National Coalition of Girls’ Schools (NCGS). This conference, bringing together all forms of girls’ schools (public, independent, parochial), girls’ program leaders and practitioners, academics, researchers and others committed to the healthy intellectual, social, and emotional development of girls and young women, will shine the spotlight on some of...
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Harpeth Hall School Offers Summer Workshops As Part of Center for Innovative Educators
The Harpeth Hall School is offering three professional development workshops this summer as part of the Harpeth Hall Center for Innovative Educators. The mission of the center is to inspire teachers to develop new and creative practices, to build a network of learning professionals, to support teacher growth through innovative thinking and to prepare students for the 21st century. 2012 SUMMER WORKSHOPS Promoting Independent Learning: Approaches to Flipped and Blended Classrooms Would you like to transform your students from...
Girls Summer Leadership Program at Dana Hall-Applications due March 15
The Girls Summer Leadership Program seeks to cultivate in its participants Dana Hall School’s core values of integrity, leadership, diversity, and service, as well as respect for self and others. Our program provides participants with a unique opportunity to prepare themselves for the challenges and choices they will face as high school students. Whether participants will enter a co-ed or single-sex high school environment in the fall, the Girls Summer Leadership Program is designed to help girls find the tools...
“Finding Kind” Screening Invitation from Girls Prep Middle School
Girls Prep Middle School would like to extend an invitation to Kindness Day. They will be screening the moving “Finding Kind”. Feel free to bring any friends, family and colleagues. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14th 4:15pm Girls Prep M.S. / East Side C.H.S. AUDITORIUM 420 East 12th Street (enter on 11th St) between 1st & Avenue A Tickets $5 ~ Refreshments available. Proceeds benefit GPMS & The Kind Campaign http://www.kindcampaign.com/ To purchase tickets, visit: http://girlsprep.eventbrite.com/ . *Note: Children under 15 must be...
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Artist of the Month contest for teen girls
Teen Voices is a journalism, mentoring, and leadership program for teen girls. They produce an online and print magazine by and for girls that is viewed by girls and their adult advocates around the world. They have just launched an Artist of the Month contest. It will consist of 12 monthly contests, each with an individual theme such as sisterhood, power and leadership, or dreams. Each monthly winner will be considered a semi-finalist for the contest as a whole. The...
Irma Rangel School Cited as Example of Successful Public Single-Sex Schooling
In Christina Hoff Sommers column “Fight proposed ban on single-sex schools” in USA Today on October 12th, NCGS member school, The Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School in Dallas, was cited as an example of an excellent public all-girl academy. Sommers states “The Irma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School in Dallas, opened in 2004 and enrolls 473 girls in grades 6 through 12. Its success has been dazzling. The school has scored at or near the top of all Dallas...
Calling all digital divas, web chix, and coder girls!
NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) seeks high-school-level young women to apply for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing! The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women active and interested in computing and encourages them to pursue their passion for technology. Winners get cool prizes, gadgets, and scholarships, and can join a community of like-minded technical women. National award-winners are selected from across the country and Affiliate Award competitions are available in more than 30...
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