Vicky Stone is a Medford mom of seven; her youngest finished his year at Haines this past spring. Teachers agree. In a program modeled on Scandinavian nature school, kids spend four hours in the Wissahickon regardless of the weather.
They hike, climb trees, write, paint and build fires; they spend five to 10 minutes sitting alone, in awareness and silence. And at Kennett, girls are making sure they get the access and resources they deserve. Last year, students founded their own chapter of the Society of Women Engineers; they meet monthly after school and invite speakers, like engineers from DuPont and Wawa.
Community Schools in Roxborough. A reliable — and results-driven — space for kids who often get left behind. Joshua Childs knows: In the past year alone, he found himself in four different foster residences. Enter C. Community Schools, the brainchild of Roberta Trombetta, an attorney who has spent her career working in child welfare. Unlike any other program in Philly, C. Students are referred by lawyers, foster parents, other kids and case managers. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis, and grade levels are based not on age, but on competencies.
In kindergarten, students work on business concepts; by fifth grade, they learn how to produce podcasts. Every 10th-grader is charged with creating a venture — from launching an app to founding a nonprofit — that solves a real-world problem.
There are results, too. Rekha Dhillon-Richardson, now a sophomore at Brown, created the Girls Climate Summit, a gathering of hundreds of teens and leading climate experts. Alex Koscica reverse-engineered a less expensive epinephrine auto-injector the EpiPen medical device. The all-boys private Haverford School is taking our patriarchy- smashing era seriously by addressing the need for students to be equal partners with and advocates for girls through its upper-school human relationships elective.
In partnership with Baldwin and Agnes Irwin, the program promotes meaningful conversations about how boys can take a proactive role in building safe, healthy relationships.
Over the course of 10 weekly meetups, students explore cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity, gendered messages in the media, love, consent, microaggressions, feminism, rape culture, and many more topics that men and women of all ages could benefit from.
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