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.