About the Project

Our grant project will create a club at our high schools that work on strengthening students’ greatness. The club will enable students to understand and maximize the use of their talents to filter their interactions, make decisions, and ultimately achieve excellence in all areas. The club will give students an opportunity to discover what is right about them and provide a safe space for discussing identity and strengths with others. Through the language of strengths, they can gain insight into why they think or behave similarly or differently from others. The activities of the club will focus on teaching students how to identify their innate talents, become aware of biases created by those talents, and refine how they use them to reach their full potential. In addition, students will learn strategies for taking personal responsibility for their decisions, language skills for communicating effectively with others, and ways of self-assessing progress toward goals related to academics as well as life skills such as time management and stress management.