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High-achieving girls are terrified of failure. One school is teaching them how to bounce back

Lauren Alix Brown

June 05, 2018 |

Quartz |

Text |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Shaker Heights, Ohio

A school in Ohio runs a program called Adventure Girls in order to teach adolescent girls resilience and creative problem-solving skills. The curriculum is borne out of research designed to build resilience, and it creates stressful situations and equips girls with the tools needed to get through them. Participants testify to how much the program has changed them, and the built-in role model system that employs high school girls to guide sessions also teaches valuable leadership skills.

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