By George F on May 8, 2009 in Elementary, UK, children | 2 Comments
Sally Cancello’s ‘Inspire a Child’project has allowed many celebrity athletes and artists to visit primary schools in England, inspiring students with their accomplishments. The project, which Cancello created while attending Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, received the attention of the Sheffield Star newspaper, which wrote the following article.
Sport Stars Drop in to Inspire Primary [...]
By Johntrue on Feb 11, 2009 in Elementary, Health/Medicine, Landmark Education, Seattle, Sports | 0 Comments
The project created by Okashi Robles when she took her Landmark SELP program brought a variety of sports to West Seattle middle schoolers through a unique after school program. The Seattle Times wrote a story about Robles’ project.
Middle-School students get their sport on at the southwest community center
Get Your Sport On is a first-of-its-kind, after-school [...]
By George F on Oct 1, 2008 in Elementary, Homelessness, Texas, children | 1 Comment
When Leila Salmons of Houston created the "Supplies for Star Students" project in her Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program, her intention wasn't to collect school supplies for students with good grades. Rather, she and a team of professionals are making sure that personal living supplies – items such as socks and underpants as well as [...]
By George F on Sep 26, 2008 in Chicago, Elementary, Music, children | 0 Comments
Joanna Burgraf has created a project out of Landmark’s Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program that is raising substantial sums of money towards saving the music program at the Armor Elementary School in the south side of Chicago.
Named S.O.S., or Save Our Song, the initial idea for the project came from a partnership between Burgraf’s employer, [...]
By Vincent Cahill on Apr 10, 2008 in Arts/Entertainment, Elementary, High School, california | 2 Comments
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 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 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 | 4 Comments
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. [...]
