Radnor 7th Graders Participate In Girls Leadership Program

WAYNE, PA – Twenty Radnor Middle School seventh grade students participated in a leadership program for adolescent girls after showing their leadership potential to school faculty, according to the Radnor Township School District.

The students participated in the Girls Lead program, which is presented by Women's Resource Center in Wayne.

The middle school was one of nine middle schools and two high schools that participated in the program during the 2017-2018 school year.

Radnor Middle School students Farnaz Bazyar, Gianna Bloomfield, Olivia Brubaker, Bryn Carrigan, Louisa Clark, Angela Esgro, Tara Hug, Ava Imperato, Belle James, Elizabeth Johnstone, Hannah Kwak, Paige Leflar, Cayla McLeod, Darci McRae, Zoe Muetterties, Sydney O'Shea, Anne-Aurora Rayer, Anna Sanderson, Jillian Spiller, and Margaret Weidenborner participated in the program.

They were selected by their counselors or team teachers based on their leadership potential, the district said.

Through 12 school-based meetings, the annual Girls Lead Conference, and a leadership project, Girls Lead participants improved their communication, decision making, conflict resolution, problem solving and advocacy skills.

The districts said the Girls Lead Conference welcomed 135 young women from nine participating middle schools to the RMS Large Group Instruction Room on Feb. 28.

Centered on the theme of "Unspoken Words," discussions and activities focused on body language, popular music messaging and implications of social media use.

The leadership project allowed participants to address a problem in their school or community that was discovered during their school-based discussions.

The students chose to focus on the transition from elementary to middle school and planned a visit to Ithan Elementary School during fifth-grade recess on March 1, the district said.

The seventh-grade students led small group activities focused on the core skills they'd been practicing and held small group conversations to answer fifth graders' questions about entering sixth grade, according to the district.

Previously known as the Girls' Leadership Program, RMS has been a participating school since the 2007-2008 school year and has hosted the annual conference since 2011.

For the past two years, Girls Lead at RMS has been funded, in part, by the Radnor Educational Foundation.

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