Inspire, Educate, Empower.
Our mission is to educate and empower girls so they can become leaders in a new Appalachia.
Watch the full videoThe Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education (PAGE) is an educational nonprofit that is helping create new ladders of opportunity for girls. PAGE is helping adolescent girls learn and connect in empowering new ways through its innovative, place-based learning labs. Girls in PAGE create multi-media projects in our PageLabs: interdisciplinary projects that engage girls with real scientists, artists, and oral historians. They read literature in small reading groups, think creatively and critically, and discover new ways of achieving their dreams.
Please join us in the movement to inspire girls through world-class education, so they can become young leaders in a new Appalachia.
Projects
The Girls’ Stories
Each girl’s learning journey in PAGE begins in our learning lab, where she creates multi-media projects about her life story and her experiences. Girls benefit fromusing new literacy skills, visual media, and digital tools to tell their stories and connect in new ways.
See the girls’ digital projects ›Humanities PageLabs
Girls in grades 8-10 participate in our signature PageLabs. Our humanities Labs integrate the arts, humanities, and digital learning with creative, place-based learning. Participants engage firsthand with the people, places, and stories of Appalachia, with expert guidance from real artists, historians, and documentary photographers.
See Humanities PageLabs projects ›NEW for 2022: STEM PageLabs
In our new STEM PageLabs, girls in grades 8-10 join communities of girls globally who study, document, and build their worlds through science. Girls learn about astronomy by building telescopes and becoming Appalachian stargazers. They learn about local plants in a pop-up garden classroom and create Illustrated Lab Journals with drawings, photos, and their own questions and observations.
See STEM PageLabs projects ›Latest News
The PAGE program featured on EdNC
The girl effect: In the nexus of literacy and STEM, global opportunity emerges for rural girls.
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Listen to PAGE Founder Deborah Hicks on NPR.
Deborah describes how literature helped a group of girls in an inner-city, white Appalachian ghetto get through the toughest years of adolescence.
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Middle School Program
Participants in our Middle School Program benefit from year-round learning opportunities. We focus on place-based learning that integrates literacy, STEM, and the arts with new technology tools. Girls in grades 6-8 are empowered by new skills, new connections, greater self-confidence, and a positive sense of their regional identity.
High School Program
Participants in our High School Program benefit from an expanded menu of year-round learning and mentoring opportunities. These include PageLabs for girls in grades 8-10, and a College Pathways program for girls in grades 11-12. Our newest opportunity is a one-week intensive summer workshop that focuses on the how-to of applying and going to college.
College Internships
Undergraduates can apply for one of our selective College Internships. Up to six College Interns are selected each year to join our Summer Program team. Our Interns serve as leaders, mentors and tutors, and inspiring role models for girls and young women in Appalachia.
These girls are the new voices of Appalachia.
Please join us in the movement to inspire girls through world-class education, so they can become young leaders in a new Appalachia.
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