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Category: EducationBy George F on Apr 1, 2008 in High School, Los Angeles, Sports | 1 Comment
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 | 2 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. […]
By Olivia Seery on Jan 31, 2008 in Arizona, Education, Family, Homelessness, Society, children | 0 Comments
Committed to impacting the lives of the over 12,000 homeless children attending schools in Maricopa County, Arizona in direct, positive and meaningful ways, the Real Gift Foundation is a volunteer-based organization committed to impacting the lives of the over 12,000 homeless children attending schools in Phoenix area.
The mission and purpose of the Real Gift Foundation […]
By George F on Jan 30, 2008 in Elementary, High School, Video Features, new jersey | 2 Comments
The origins of Where Peace Lives, an incredible new organization for peace in the world, lie in friendship. New Jersey natives Jeff Rudy and Jeff and Donna Clapp completed Landmark Education’s curriculum for living and then assisted as Introduction Leaders together over the last decade, during which time they became fast friends. Their involvement with Landmark Education […]
By Vincent Cahill on Dec 6, 2007 in Education, High School, Los Angeles, Sports, Video Features | 1 Comment
Landmark Forum Graduate Sean Mckeon is a teach and coach at Manual Arts high school in Los Angeles. While a participant in the Self Expression and Leadership Program, he created a community project called LAX in LA.
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Here is a story by Dan Heimpel a journalist and former lacrosse player who was so inspired by the […]