The Power Guides will participate in extensive 4-session training to prepare them to facilitate 50-minute sessions with their cohort groups.

Each section aligns with a POWER attribute and provides students with opportunities to engage in activities to develop the attribute.

Sessions 1-5: Purpose: in this section, students learn to show up as their best selves. They must know who they are, establish boundaries, create individual goals, and give themselves grace for all their areas of improvement and strengths!

Sessions 6-8: Original: in this section, students learn how to value their thoughts and ideas recognizing their ability to make their visions and dreams into reality through their creativity, imagination and independent critical thinking.

According to the American Psychological Association (2020), learning strategies for preventing or addressing the adultification of school-aged children can help address childhood depression, anxiety, lack of trust, substance abuse, inability to trust others, compulsive overworking, and other psychological effects. Addressing this issue and providing girls with appropriate and timely support can help develop strong but healthy work ethics, resiliency, and self-efficacy.

Culturally responsive teaching is based on the three pillars of culturally relevant pedagogy, introduced by scholar Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings in the 1990s. The framework was designed to help educators advance excellence and underperforming students.

Our learning environments welcome and value students' unique strengths and skills.

Our lessons allow students to demonstrate skills and empower them to learn new skill sets.

Our lesson plans are designed with the student in mind. We engage the students' voices in the session activities.

We encourage students to express themselves fully. We immerse students in the experience by engaging the five senses: feeling, taste, touch, sight, and sound.

We make inquiry, discovery, and discussion a practice by which students share their perspectives and experiences to deepen and foster new knowledge.