Lean In Girls: Girls’ School Cohort

The International Coalition of Girls’ Schools partners with Lean In Girls to help students explore their leadership potential and develop the confidence to lead on their own terms.

About Lean In Girls

From an early age, girls begin to internalize limiting stereotypes about what they can achieve. Lean In Girls is a leadership program designed to help girls ages 11–15 see themselves as leaders in a world that often tells them they’re not.

The free curriculum includes 15 one-hour sessions covering topics such as taking positive risks, reframing failure, bias, and allyship. Sessions are interactive and designed to spark honest conversations while building practical leadership skills.

Through a combination of strength-building activities and real discussions about the barriers girls face, the program encourages participants to embrace their leadership strengths and challenge limiting stereotypes. Students develop tools to recognize bias, advocate for themselves and others, and approach setbacks as opportunities for growth.

Bringing Lean In Girls to Your School

Girls’ schools around the world are using the Lean In Girls curriculum to support students in developing leadership confidence and skills.

Schools that participate in the program help students:

• see themselves as leaders
• identify their values and strengths and how these shape their leadership style
• recognize and respond to unfair treatment
• reframe failure and approach challenges with a growth mindset
• practice allyship with practical strategies they can use at school and beyond

Schools can implement the curriculum in a way that works for their community. Many choose to run several of the sessions with students during the year as part of advisory, leadership programs, or co-curricular activities.

Lean In Girls provides free facilitator training and digital materials to support educators bringing the program to their students.

Connect With the Community

Educators facilitating Lean In Girls at girls’ schools may also have opportunities to connect with peers through the global ICGS network, sharing ideas and experiences from their programs.

To learn more about the curriculum and how to bring it to your school, contact Erikka Moreno at erikka@leaningirls.org.