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The GPS College Counseling team equips students and families to confidently navigate the ever-changing college admissions landscape—offering personalized guidance, academic alignment, and broad exploration—so that each girl finds the college best suited to her passions, strengths, and future goals.

The Challenge Success Survey and subsequent GPS Sleep Challenge underscored the critical role of adequate rest in students’ academic engagement, emotional well-being, and physical health, prompting collaborative efforts among students, teachers, and families to build healthier sleep habits that support overall success.

Learn how GPS’s Outdoor Leadership course highlights how middle school girls develop self-awareness and confidence by exploring different team roles, practicing varied leadership styles, and learning that effective leadership can take many forms.

Read about the challenges of balancing ambition and self-care for teenage girls, and learn practical tips on task management, setting priorities, and avoiding unhealthy comparisons to help them grow with resilience and wellbeing.

Learn how GPS fosters a culture of outward-focused affirmation, teaching girls to recognize and celebrate each other’s contributions and shift from self-comparison to valuing the impact of their peers.

Discover the importance of cultivating resilience in your daughter and how offering strategies such as reflection on past experiences and allowing them to learn from failure can help them navigate challenges with strength and self-confidence

Read about GPS’s middle school dance program; a space where girls explore multiple dance genres, build technical and creative skills, take risks, and develop confidence, collaboration, and real-life skills that extend beyond the studio.

Practical strategies from psychologist Lisa Damour to help parents foster meaningful communication with their teens—through focused questions, meeting them on their own terms, and creating agenda-free moments.

Middle school clubs and after-school activities play a vital role in helping girls at GPS build skills, confidence, friendships, and leadership while exploring their interests beyond the classroom.

Learn how GPS humanities classes blend tradition with innovation, empowering students to shape the curriculum through inquiry, creativity, and reflection.

GPS fosters a learner-centered middle school experience through collaboration, real-world projects, student voice, and community connections, cultivating skills that prepare girls for success beyond the classroom.