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 Feb 9, 2009 in Africa, Education, children | 0 Comments
The Kposowa Foundation, co-founded by Landmark Education graduate Sarah Culberson out of her commitment to people of the town of Bumpe and the country of Sierra Leone has launched its own blog, giving updates on the progress of the work being done there to rebuild the town and introducing visitors to the people of Bumpe.
When [...]
By George F on Dec 31, 2008 in Arts/Entertainment, Education, Family, Landmark Education, People, Seattle, Women's Issues | 4 Comments
we can have all the dinners, we can have all the decorations, but really what’s at the heart of a great holiday, no matter how great the food was, how beautiful the decorations were, what makes or breaks a holiday is the relationships we have with people and whether we enjoy the people or not.
By George F on Nov 21, 2008 in Arts/Entertainment, Education, Georgia, Gulf Coast | 0 Comments
Sunherald.com, a news website for the Biloxi-Gulfport and Southern Mississipi area, recently took note of a book published by Earnest Hooks Jr., "Let's Go See Mother Wilkerson's Farm: Adventures in Learning Excellence," that features the art of Lizzie Wilkerson and educates children and adults on early 20th century farming culture. The article also makes note [...]
By George F on Nov 11, 2008 in Africa, Education, Landmark Education | 1 Comment
Sarah Culberson’s story is known to many viewers of Good Morning America and CNN–How she had grown up adopted in West Virginia, used Landmark Education’s Landmark Forum program to get up the courage to look for her birth father (her birth mother had died years earlier), and discovering that she was in fact a long [...]
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 Johntrue on Aug 4, 2008 in Economic Development, Education, Landmark Education, Latin America, children | 0 Comments
Mars Tanumihardja used his participation in Landmark Education's Self-Expression and Leadership program to create a benefit concert to raise funds for some of the poorest people in central America. Tanumihardja arranged for the concert to be held at the Newman Center at the University of Washington, where he is the head of the music ministry. [...]
