Flipbook Animation Class at Ophelia’s Place
Learning 2D animation techniques using flip books!
Empowering Girls
Ten Ways to Help Girls in 2020
Here are ten ways to help girls in the New Year. Be a role model. Insist that women be promoted into positions of power. If you are an employer, make sure women have access to the same opportunities as men. Volunteer at a non-profit that helps girls. Ophelia’s Place, Girl Scouts, National Girls Collaborative, …
VALUES
At Girls’ Voices Matter, our core values reflect our beliefs in the potential of every girl. We celebrate and respect teen girls. We understand their need for acceptance and their growing independence. Every teen girl needs encouragement to take on new challenges, handle stress, set goals, and develop a healthy sense of self. CORE VALUES: Teamwork. …
Girls’ Voices Matter Summer Workshop Video
I’m happy to share the 2019 Girls’ Voices Matter Summer Workshop Video. The video is made entirely from video shot by the students in the July 2019 Filmmaking Workshop for Girls. These girls are rock stars!
Encouraging Girls to Raise Their Hands
Alice Paul Tapper: Encouraging girls to raise their hands When 10-year-old Alice Paul Tapper noticed that girls in her classroom were raising their hands with less confidence than the boys, she decided to do something about it. Working with her mother and the head of her local Girl Scouts chapter, she created the RAISE YOUR …
Stronger Than You Know: Ophelia’s Place’s 2019 Conference
On February 15, I attended “Stronger Than You Know,” the annual conference organized by Ophelia’s Place. The theme was “Relationships: With Peers, Self, and Community.” The keynote speaker, Rosalind Wiseman, wrote Queen Bees and Wannabes, the classic book about girls’ puberty, and the inspiration for the movie Mean Girls. The conference took place in Eugene, …
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Changing How We Speak to Girls
“8 Ways to Encourage Girls to use Use Their Voices” by Allison Riley, from Girls on the Run, describes how important it is for adults to change how they speak to girls. I especially liked #1. Ask her, #2. Teach her that her voice matters, and #8. Encourage her to think critically when she sees conflicting messages. By …
OUR STORY
Girls’ Voices Matter is the daughter of Media Poetry Studio, an arts-based educational program for teen girls that started in 2014. Here’s the story of how Media Poetry Studio came to be: In the Spring of 2014, California Bay Area Poets Laureate Erica Goss, Jennifer Swanton Brown and David Perez had an epiphany while discussing their plans …
If You Give a Girl a Camera
I’ve always loved the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, which I read to my children when they were little. In the book, a boy gives a delicious chocolate chip cookie to a mouse. The mouse loves the cookie, which leads him to ask for things to go with it: a glass …