Middle School Learning
Middle school girls living in Madison County’s remote mountain communities can participate each summer in an intensive educational summer learning experience.
Fostering 21ST century literacy skills,
social equity, and economic opportunity for
Appalachian girls and young women.
PAGE (Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education) serves adolescent girls growing up in rural mountain communities in Madison County, North Carolina. Now in its fourth year, it offers learning and enrichment opportunities for girls in grades 6-9 and internships for high school girls. A highlight of PAGE each summer is a rigorous and fun educational program focused on 21st literacy education and leadership. Girls in grades 6-9 participate in a program that offers book groups, writing, arts and crafts, and a digital learning lab that melds one of the oldest of Appalachian traditions – storytelling – with 21st century technologies. PAGE seeks to help today’s mountain girls become tomorrow’s young leaders. Learn more about the program and get involved.
High School Internships
Each year, a small group of high school girls from the communities served by PAGE are selected to become High School Interns. Our High School Interns apply as rising juniors or seniors.
Duke Undergrad Interns
Duke Interns work with about 40 middle school girls for two 3-week sessions to provide an enriching summer learning experience.
How many twelve-year-old girls have you talked to lately that are excited about going to “summer school?” I could name at least five off the top of my head. My daughter went to PAGE last summer. She is so excited about returning this summer... This project is a once in a lifetime opportunity for these girls.
Literacy + Social Equity + Economic Opportunity
Their Stories
The girls in our program learn photography and create digital stories that meld one of the oldest traditions in Appalachian culture – storytelling – with important new skills and technologies.
Experience the girls’ voices and artistic vision as they express the worlds inside and around them...
