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| Our children live in a high-stakes, high-pressure world
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The Challenge Success program addresses the concern that children and adolescents often compromise their mental and physical health, integrity, and engagement in learning as they contend with performance pressure in and out of school. We challenge the conventional, high-pressure, and narrow path to success and offer practical alternatives to pursue a broader definition of success. |
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The 2012 Fall Conference Application is AVAILABLE NOW.
You can now do your application online. more... |
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| | | | How to stop your kids from stressing
On the quest for well-being and life balance in stressful times.
more... | | | | | | | Parental Anxiety - a great interview of Madeline Levine on NBC Bay Area
more... | | | | | | | Denise Pope is interviewed for the Huffington Post.
more... | | | | | | | Denise Pope "stole the show", Jonathan Martin of Connected Principals
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| We need a broader vision of success
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 Our current educational system and parenting practices are out of alignment with the well-documented needs of children. As a result, we are seeing rising and debilitating levels of emotional problems and educational distress. Experts are documenting high levels of anxiety disorders, depression, stress, disengagement from learning, cheating, and boredom. This is as true for the student struggling to pass the high school exit exam, as it is for the student who is overloaded with AP courses and extracurricular activities.
Our culture’s current configuration of success is too narrow – focused primarily on a limited number of academic skills. In the world our students are about to enter, success comes in many forms. Without an appropriately broad notion of success, many students are working to the point of exhaustion, while many more are simply disengaging from a system that doesn’t address the diversity of skills, interests, and capacities that different children have. The tragedy is that many of these tolls on children are preventable. The Challenge Success vision is to develop a plan to prevent these tolls and allow all youth to thrive.
We work with schools, parents and youth to develop and implement action plans to improve student well-being and engagement with learning.
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