Participating Schools and Organizations
Echo Horizon School
Culver City, CA
Echo Horizon School uses The Aerin Project to spread joy and empathy throughout its community, while also teaching students the important, fundamental skill of letter writing.
Windward School
Los Angeles, CA
Each year Windward School asks its graduating seniors to write encouraging letters to their classmates—much in the way Aerin did—to spread messages of friendship, support and joy. The letters can be read immediately, and also after they have parted ways for college and beyond.
The Skola
Whitefish, MT
“We are thrilled to be partnering with The Aerin Project! This project beautifully blends our intention toward bringing community connection into literacy. So often, we think these need to be separate when, in fact, they can be integrated for a true holistic learning experience,” said Brooke Ober, Educational Programs Director and Founder of The Skola.
The program will be woven into the Skola’s experiential, community-centered curriculum, giving students a chance to practice compassion and build social-emotional skills while connecting to the enduring spirit of Aerin’s letters.
United to Learn
Dallas, TX
Every child deserves the chance to thrive.
United to Learn unites schools and the community to accelerate student achievement and develop purposeful leaders across Dallas.
“By closing opportunity gaps in Dallas ISD elementary schools, we’re fueling the potential of students and empowering our city to grow stronger, together.”
Whitefish Christian Academy
Whitefish, MT
Founded in 1980, Whitefish Christian Academy is a small private school in beautiful Whitefish, MT for students in Preschool-8th Grade.
At Whitefish Christian Academy the educational model seeks to form the whole child in mind, body and soul, to cultivate wise and virtuous young men and women who contribute meaningfully to their local and global communities.
Carlthorp School
Santa Monica, CA
Carlthorp School is an independent coeducational day school serving grades K-6. Founded in 1939, it is the oldest independent elementary school in Santa Monica, California.
Carlthorp School provides a strong academic foundation in a diverse and nurturing school community that emphasizes respectful values, responsible work habits, and excellence in order to prepare our students to achieve their highest potential in education and life.
The Studio School
New York, NY
The Studio School opened in 1971 in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village as a one-room schoolhouse with twenty-five students, ages 4 to 12. The school now has 120 students, ages 2 to 14, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a beautiful six-story building, utilizing an educational program that emphasizes the interplay of the intellect and the emotions, and is diverse and inclusive.
The Studio School educates the hearts and minds of children, while also nurturing the unfolding of their authentic spirit and character.
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy
La Cañada Flintridge, CA
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic, Dominican, independent, college-preparatory, day and boarding school, educates young women in grades 9-12 for a life of faith, integrity, and truth.
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy recognizes the interdependence of physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, social, and environmental health, and their benefits for learning.
Duke University Women’s Leadership Lab
Durham, NC
Maggie Sellers, founder of Hotsmartrich, a female empowerment media and investing platform, spoke at Duke University Women’s Leadership Lab, teaching "soft skills" like confidence, resilience, and navigating ambiguity to empower future female leaders.
She asked students to write letters to each other using The Aerin Project’s prompt “open when you feel misunderstood.“
The Master’s School
Dobbs Ferry, NY
The Masters School celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. A community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do — to be a power for good in the world.
Our students achieve academic excellence not only because of our talented, creative and caring faculty, but also because the Masters community emphasizes inclusion and belonging.
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy
Beverly Hills, CA
Hillel provides students with an educational program that integrates values-based Jewish education and a love of Torah learning with a rigorous and dynamic general studies curriculum.
Hillel is an institution that prides itself on high expectations. A vibrant and dynamic staff create learning opportunities, paying particular attention to each student's individual needs. The focus is on the full and balanced development of each child in an environment that is supportive of their aspirations and potential.
Sierra Canyon School
Chatsworth, CA
Sierra Canyon School is a private, independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory school for students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12 located in Chatsworth, California.
The highly cosmopolitan campus community is reflective of the Greater Los Angeles area and the world at large. Students are empowered to realize their greatest creative, ethical, intellectual and physical promise through small class sizes, a diverse student-teacher culture and a family-like environment.
Homeschooling Families Group
Jacksonville, FL
A group of families in Jacksonville, Florida who homeschool their children are actively participating in The Aerin Project . These families have embraced the project’s activities and curriculum as a way to enhance their children’s learning experiences while building supportive relationships within their community.
Through collaborative events and shared storytelling, the Jacksonville homeschooling community is helping bring The Aerin Project’s mission to life.
Los Angeles, CA
Guided by values such as academic inquiry and critical thinking, empathetic dialogue and discourse, and wellness, joy, and self actualization, Shalhevet has graduated thousands of students who have gone on to the finest universities in the world.
Today, Shalhevet leads the way in preparing its students to live meaningful, confident, and thoughtful Modern Orthodox lives - by empowering them to discover their passions, grow as individuals, and contribute to our community and the world at large.
Shalhevet High School
Pasadena, CA
English 85 • Poetry Writing Class
Imagery, sensory language, arguments, ideas, and verse form itself can lead poetry toward power and discovery. This pursuit can reach from the page into one's own life. We will work hard together on poems, our own and one another's.
CalTech University
Pasadena, CA
We help prepare students for learning by: fostering an environment where they feel comfortable being themselves (our students like to say they embrace quirkiness and celebrate individuality); leading with our core value of inclusion; facilitating close relationships between faculty and students (our schedule permits significant time for students and teachers to interact outside of class and often beyond their immediate classroom topics); and, investing time and resources into social emotional learning and a team of student support specialists.
Westridge School
Malibu, CA
Selective in enrollment and committed to the highest academic standards, Pepperdine University exists to prepare students of diverse economic, social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds to become moral and intellectual leaders and to challenge them to value service above material success.
Pepperdine University
Los Angeles, CA
United in Harmony serves children ages 7 to 12 experiencing poverty in Los Angeles and the surrounding counties. We partner with Title I schools, transitional housing shelters, and other community-based organizations to directly bring in campers from diverse areas of need.
Our volunteer camp counselors come from more than 35 surrounding high schools. Students in grades 10–12 serve as leaders and inspirational role models for the campers.
United in Harmony
Palo Alto, CA
St. Elizabeth Seton School, sponsored by the Daughters of Charity, is a nurturing community in the Vincentian tradition. We believe in educating the whole child through intentionally forming students in the Catholic faith and providing a rich and challenging curriculum. At Seton, we believe that we are family. We are committed to working in partnership with parents, students, teachers, and staff to ensure each and every child receives the highest quality Catholic education.
St. Elizabeth Seton School
Torrance, CA
West High is committed to providing all students the opportunity to engage in a meaningful and caring environment; supporting them in developing curiosity, becoming risk-takers and critical thinkers, and ultimately preparing them to exit our doors at graduation to compete and positively contribute in a global society. A variety of courses are offered to meet this commitment, in addition to offerings that best differentiate learning, from intervention and sheltered classes to offering over 45 Honors and Advanced Placement courses. It is our goal to prepare all students for graduation and their future.
West High School
Fayetteville, GA
Rising Starr’s chapter of The Beta Club, the largest educational organization in the country dedicated to service, partnered with The Aerin Project to spread kindness to its school community.
Rising Starr Middle School fosters an environment that builds confident life-long learners, empowers individuals to achieve excellence; and prepares students to become responsible global citizens.
Rising Starr Middle School
Beverly Hills, CA
Beverly Hills High School is more than a school, it’s a cornerstone of the Beverly Hills community and a launching pad for young minds with extraordinary potential. Here, academic rigor meets real-world preparation. From advanced coursework and college pathways to creative expression and civic leadership, our students are not just learning, they are preparing to shape the future.
Beverly Hills High School
Los Angeles, CA
At USC School of Dramatic Arts, our students develop as compassionate human beings and learn to use their storytelling powers to help address our world’s most pressing problems. We have a deep commitment to using the tools of the dramatic arts to create powerful, transformative stories that have the potential to change the world.
USC School of Dramatic Arts
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton
Atherton, CA
Faith. Leadership. Service. Collaboration. Self-discovery. Woven throughout the curriculum and our principles of community, these are also the very characteristics that define our campus life.
Handed down from founder St. Madeleine Sophie, our directive is clear: to ensure a safe and welcoming campus, where a healthy balance between school and personal life is promoted, and where each person is valued, cared for, and respected.