Landmark Education Self-expression and Leadership

Kelly Maria’s project in the Landmark SELP program was to create Hearts at Home, to bring hand sewn blankets to new foster kids.

Karen Fletcher’s Landmark selp project brought families together through the creation of monthly family dance jams.

A fundraising walk across the most famous bridges in London is benefiting the largest children’s hospital in Hungary.

In what looks like a new landmark self-expression and leadership program project in the news, The Middletown Journal of Ohio is reporting that Floating Smiles is a new project offering balloon rides to children with cancer.

For her project in the Landmark Education SELP Program, Heidi Riggs created Desire to Inspire, an adult talent show which also rewarded two students with arts scholarships.

Tessa Mills created a fundraising event to raise £1,000 for new classrooms at a Himalayan school. The event, which was her project in the self expression and leadership programme, actually raised £1,500 and the attention of the London Informer.

Sheba Mohankumar created a project in the SELP program that allowed high school students to get an opportunity to find out about what it would be like to be a vet. Mohankumar also got an article published in the Lansing State Journal(of Michigan) about the project. The article, which is reprinted below, can also be [...]

Mike Arazyan’s SELP project involved making a difference for sick children, but just as important to him, it has his children and their friends learning the value of making a difference for others. The family took on doing raking, snow shoveling and other chores to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Kids in Canada. [...]

Peter Landau of Chicago has created a project in the Self Expression and Leadership Program to get computers and computer equipment to children in need. Landau reports on what the organization is creating:
I’d like to share with you an exciting new organization that I am starting with a group of fellow technology professionals. It is [...]

Ben Flood’s project in the SELP allowed students from four schools to create an art exhibition which aided children in South African townships. The Anglo-Celt newspaper wrote the story.
Schools do their Art for Africa
Michael Cryan
The four secondary schools in Cavan town took part in an art exhibition in the Town Hall to raise funds for [...]

Tricia Tarantino of South Florida is a third grade teacher at the Sabal Palm elementary school. For her project in the SELP program, Tarantino led her class to raise money for the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. The Collier County Public School district wrote about the event.
Sabal Palm Elementary Operation Inspiration Update
Recently we told you about [...]

Melissa Yaich has developed a new program to help young girls achieve self respect through running and physical fitness. Working through the national Girls on the Run nonprofit organization, Yaich and Geogie Koch developed a 12 week training program culminating in a 5 kilometre run. The Mountain Mail of Salida, Colorado wrote a story about [...]

The Chicago Defender recently ran a piece about the landmark SELP project of April Preyar, which is designed to impact the lives of female African American teenagers in Chicago through a “Li’l S.I.S.” mentoring Expo event being held in December. Here’s how it appeared.
Saving Our Girls
Cheryl Burton, ABC 7 Chicago newscaster, and Bionce Foxx, WGCI-FM/107.5 [...]

Lisa Stachler’s project in the Landmark Education SELP program was a benefit to raise money for college scholarships for those afflicted with cerebral palsy. The Benefit, named “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” took place on Sunday, November 2 at Cafe Live in Philadelphia, and featured top-end entertainment, as well as a mention in Philadelphia Weekly.
Oh [...]

For her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, Joanne Kelly created a fundraiser event for the Northern Ireland Chilren’s Hospice. The event took place on Sunday, November 30 at the Ballysillan Leisure Centre. The event was a “Bounce-Athon” for children, which goes from 1:30-2:3-pm for 8-13 year olds and 2:30-3:30pm for 5 [...]

Jessica Bavinton of the UK has passed on the news to Leadership and Self Development that the project she created in Landmark Education’s SELP program in 2006, titled “BeRecreative” has entered successfully entered its third year. The project is an annual, free event for young people and their families to learn fun and creative ways [...]

Manu Vasudevan describes the “Junk Rock project” she created in the Landmark self-expression and leadership programme as like “my dream come true”. In the last week of October, disabled children and their families created an orchestra of instruments out of discarded materials. Then 30 of these children and their families performed on October 31 on [...]

Leadership and Self Development received this report from this spring about the project of Arlene Stein taking place in Florida. The following is her first-hand account.
My project is about children being able to use their creativity to make their learning fun. I have targeted the teachers of elementary children who have difficulty in school with [...]

As a project in the Landmark Education SELP Program, Hamilton Simons-Jones took on having a fundraiser dinner for the Gulfsouth Youth Action Fund be an extraordinary event. Based in New Orleans, the GYAF is a youth-led philanthropy initiative developed to empower them to make strategic investments in their peers and their community. Hamilton’s work [...]

Sandy Lawrence works in the marketing of books running a company named Perceptive Marketing. He is also committed to making sure young people be able to read have full access to books. As a result, in his self expression and leadership program Perceptive Marketing launched “Operation Storytime,” a unique program designed to encourage and increase [...]

Kim Henry took the Self-Expression and Leadership Program in Houston this summer, and her project was “Heart Thru Art,” a fundraiser that both promoted art to the local community and benefited children in need. The Fort Bend and Harris County community came together over the weekend of September 27 and 28 to see art in [...]

Lopa Mehotra’s TestToob project is gaining acclaim from the media. This project, which began in the Self Expression and Leadership Program, creates a website for youngsters to share science videos and experiments. Here’s a piece of an article from the Lane Report, Kentucky’s leading business publication. The original story can be found here.
Lopa Mehrotra is [...]

 
Various television stations and newspapers have recently covered the story the the Self-Expression and Leadership Program project of Charlene Westgate. Westgate, who tragically lost her son to suicide two years ago, created a series of events in the form of tea parties to raise awareness about teen suicide and raise money as well. Two stories [...]

Chris Kriklas of Texas has created a project in his Self-Expression and Leadership Program to make books available to underprivileged youth and the homeless in his community. Titled ‘1000 Books – 1000 Lives’, the project will get the books to people in need through two different charities. Here are excerpts from his website and why [...]

For her project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Lynne Richardson is supporting young people in creating a family play day in Plymouth, Massachusetts, called “Into our World” Day. The project was created with the desire to empower children and parents by coaching child leaders to create this fun event for families in their communities. [...]

Deb Carroll has had children dance in her second grade class, but it wasn’t until she took on a project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership program that she decided to enroll the whole school in dancing, and raising money for a good cause at the same time. The Chicago Daily Herald reports.
Cha-cha-cha-ching!
Wheaton Students Kick [...]

Rosy Maria of Hampton, England, has brought youth together inside of her project, titled Hampton’s Street Dance and Music Festival, while taking Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. The project she created, with the partnership of fellow youth worker Peter Moorcock, attracted the attention of The Informer newspaper of the Hampton area. The article appears below.
Hampton’s [...]

Third grade teacher Tracey Mott decided to make her Landmark Education Self-Expression project be something that would directly impact her students, as well as the lives of students around the world. She decided to bring the “Pennies for Peace” program to the Hickory Grove Elementary School where she works.
Pennies for Peace is a program that [...]

Linda Kamka created “Project with Love” as her community project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. The project was a fundraisher which inspired her local community in Orange, CA, to donate new jewelry, which would then be passed on to kids in the care of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. These children weren’t [...]

Dr. Bryce Crowley, of Centerville, Utah, recently put on a safety event, Helmet Heroes, to protect young bike riders from head injuries. About 500 young people were fitted with and given new, high quality bicycle helmet. Crowley chose this as his project in landmark’s self-expression and leadership program based on personal experience – He recently had a close [...]

For Monet Critchley’s Self Expression and Leadership program project, she didn’t have to look further than her own life. As a single mother, she is acutely aware of what single moms have to deal with in their lives.
“Single mothers have a more difficult time than some may realize,” says Critchley, a Draper, Utah resident. “They [...]

Nagendra K.S. took on being a source of happiness, innovation and leadership. During his participation in Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program that started in February, he created a project called “ULLASA” (In English it means Joy).
The specific intended result of the project was to unite orphan kids and old age people. [...]

When Claudia Beltran tutored for the East Village Youth Program (EVYP) a couple of years ago, she was impressed by the ambition of the young people she worked with. The EVYP provides tutoring and mentoring youths in Chicago, with the mission of encourage and prepare primarily low-income, Latino youth for a college education. She worked [...]

In Northern India, in the State of Hamachel Pradesh, there is a discouraging state in the social affairs of the local people. This area remains to be one of the most backward regions of India with an average income of $200 dollars per year for most native residents. Outlying communities remain poor with little hope [...]

Scott Bedall took Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program and decided that the area he wanted to make a difference in was the health of kids. Kids take fitness in stride, and then some
From: Times Colonist, Victoria Canada
By: Jeff Bell
The collective energy of a bunch of eight- and nine-year-olds goes a long way.
At Cloverdale [...]