To celebrate the 25+ anniversary of the Student Leadership Network, it has published It’s All About the Girls, a book of photographs and essays highlighting the schools’ history, leadership, teachers and most importantly, the students with compelling stories of struggles, success, and the surprising impact of a TYWLS education.
In 1996, Ann Tisch partnered with the Board of Education to open The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem (TYWLS), a public middle school and high school in New York with a pioneer class of 56 seventh-grade girls. What started as a single trailblazing all-girls school has since grown into a network reaching 41 public schools, including 21 all-girls schools nationwide. Today the Student Leadership Network impacts approximately 20,000 students each year, supporting them by providing access to educational opportunities.
