by Marcia | Apr 18, 2023 | Pass It On, Pass it On: Girls, Sexual safety, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
Adele Mark arrived as a newcomer in this community at age 15. She had never been to a high school party before, but it didn’t take long for that to change. For this blog she sat down with Ruby and Sam, two recent graduates of Gulf Island Secondary School to hear their... 
by Marcia | Nov 8, 2022 | Pass It On, Pass it On: Boys, Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
Bullock Lake Farm is going into its second year as a host location for the Pass it On Boys program. Zack Hemstreet and Eland Bronstein, the facilitators of the program, look back on their first year at the farm and talk about the (social-emotional) learning... 
by Marcia | Apr 25, 2022 | Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
The Circle Education works with children and youth to remove dividers that separate us and make us feel different from each other, when in fact we are inherently the same. Our executive director Janine Fernandes-Hayden learned an important lesson about... 
by Marcia | Dec 18, 2021 | Pass It On, Pass it On: Boys, Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
As a parent of a participant in The Circle’s programs, and as a local educator, Shelly Johnson has a unique perspective on social-emotional education. Our Education Outreach Program Coordinator Adele Mark, sat down with Shelly to hear her take on the benefits of... 
by Marcia | Nov 23, 2021 | Pass It On, Pass it On: Girls, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
Adele Mark, Education Outreach Program Coordinator, at The Circle interviewed Gail Bryn-Jones, a dedicated advocate of social-emotional education and teacher of over 30 years on Salt Spring Island. Gail has a master’s degree in Education and has served as a board... 
by Marcia | Oct 12, 2021 | Pass It On, Pass it On: Girls, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
When Adele Mark was fifteen, she moved with her parents from Los Angeles, a city of 13 million people where she had lived all of her life, to Salt Spring Island, Canada. A place she thought of at the time as a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with more...
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