Strengthening Competencies
For realizing goals
- Adaptability
- Growth Mindset
- Planning and Prioritization
- Resilience
- Responsibility
- Self-Efficacy
For independent thinking and application of knowledge
- Creativity
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
- Curiosity
- Decision-Making
- Intellectual Humility
- Judgement
For productive and supportive relationships
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Interdependence
- Leadership
- Networking
- Self-Awareness
ABOUT MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION
At Making Waves, we are committed to educational equity. Making Waves Education Foundation is a Bay Area nonprofit that supports Making Waves Academy – a public charter school with more than 1,100 5th through 12th grade students – and leads college and career programming with more than 500 college students.
Knowing the opportunities that come with a college degree, we partner with historically underrepresented and underserved students to help make college affordable and graduation attainable. Centering the journeys of our students, our personalized approach includes college and career coaching, scholarships, and financial planning.
Our alumni network includes more than 600 college graduates, who earn their degrees and land jobs at more than twice the rate of their first-generation, low-income peers, with 84% graduating debt-free.
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