By George F on Jul 18, 2008 in Chicago, High School, Sports | 0 Comments
Zech Gilbert’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program project, Purpose Driven Sports, began with a realization that not all professional athletes are making headlines by getting in trouble somewhere. Many of them are quietly making a difference int their communities. Gilbert, who is president of the Chicagosporting.com website, got the idea to honor those worthy athletes and […]
By George F on Jul 14, 2008 in Chicago, Education, Landmark Education | 0 Comments
Eric Schneider has taken on a project to create a memorial garden at the Riley Elementary School 1983 class reunion for those associated with the class who have passed. The project, which was Schneider’s project in his Self-Expression and Leadership program, took place on July 12, was written about by the Wheeling Countryside newspaper, a […]
By Vincent Cahill on Apr 10, 2008 in Arts/Entertainment, Elementary, High School, california | 1 Comment
Last fall and this spring, businesses and empty retail storefronts in the East Bay area of California have displayed different forms of art. What all of it has in common is that it was all created by kids, thanks to ‘Kids Paint the Town’, a project created by Jennifer Rogers when she took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and […]
By George F on Apr 1, 2008 in High School, Los Angeles, Sports | 0 Comments
When Sean McKeon created “LAX in LA” as his project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, as a way of empowering youth by bringing Lacrosse to inner city Los Angeles, he began with one school: His own. McKeon teaches at the Manual Arts High School, where he also took on being the Lacrosse coach. The […]
By George F on Mar 18, 2008 in Asia, Education, Elementary, Minnesota | 1 Comment
A new Kindergarten school has been built in the Mongolian capital of Ulaambaatar, thanks to the work of Landmark Education graduate Lois Libby Juster. The school, which is due to open in September, is the second kindergarten to be built in Mongolia as a result of the work she began while in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and […]
By George F on Feb 4, 2008 in Books, Education, Video Features, massachusetts | 0 Comments
Rhode Island actor, writer, director and Landmark Education graduate Barry Press started Living Literature as a project in his Self-Expression Leadership Program. The project brought actors into schools to ‘perform’ works of literature, involving students and educators in novels and non-fiction in a new and inspiring way. The unique approach brings an author’s words from page to stage. With scripts in hand, […]
By George F on Jan 31, 2008 in Elementary, children, new jersey | 0 Comments
When Landmark Education graduate Cinda Gaskin grew up in Harlen, there wasn’t a lot of dreaming. “If you were lucky you got a job and got a roof over your head,” she says. When Cinda started Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership program last fall, Martin Luther King Day was a few months away. She realized she wanted to have King’s […]
By George F on Jan 31, 2008 in Elementary, Kenya | 1 Comment
It’s a hard to think of a person who embodies the boldness of unstoppability of Landmark Education graduates more than Paul Boutin. In December of 2006, he went to Kenya for a 10-day safari. He didn’t make it through the first day. On that first morning, he noticed an unfinished building and asked about it. […]
