The Four Pillars Revisited
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This is a follow-up to my last post about revamping our program. In it, I wrote:
Our program is based on four pillars – the Outdoors, STEM, Entrepreneurship, and Life Skills. We should stick with those, but add Art into the mix too. These five pillars should be the basis of our programming moving forward.
A few days ago, I revisited these pillars. I realized this whole time that I didn’t have the same definition of “Life Skills” that GSUSA has: “By partaking in life skills programming, girls enhance the academic skills they learn in school through topics such as civic engagement, healthy living, communication skills, financial literacy, and global citizenship.”