Today we are raising the curtain on ALL GIRLS, a blog for the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools. What takes place on this “stage” will be an improvisation (with audience participation I hope), with all the spontaneity and riskiness that word implies. Usually it will be me, Sally Reed, director of communications, posting here, and occasionally a guest blogger or another member of the NCGS team. I hope to inspire, to inform, to amuse, and occasionally to provoke. Comments are more than welcome; the conversation is what it’s all about. So please, participate. See the box for comments at the bottom of this post? Go for it. Talk back. Be frank; be controversial. I will if you will.

So what can you expect from me? I’m an omnivorous reader, and a finder of cool things and helpful hints, all which I’ll readily share with you.
Here’s one to get you started: Nancy White’s glossary of online interaction.

When it comes to girls’ education, I’m interested in the full range from micro to macro, and lots of other related subjects as well. Marketing. Social media. Visual arts. Poetry. Psychology. Biotech. Digital photography. We’ll look at all of these through the lens of girls’ education.  Soon you’ll be finding out about my extreme, not to say preposterous catholicity of taste.

I’ll probably post to the blog about once a week. In general comments will not be moderated, but I do reserve the right to remove offensive, inappropriate ones.
Perhaps I can entice you with a few titles for upcoming posts:

• Boomerang Pie
• Internet Trickle-up Theory
• No Dancing (the powers of prohibition)
• Your School Sucks (yes!)

We already missed National Caffeine Awareness Month in March (There’s always next year. Remind me.) But April is Financial Literacy Month. On April 15th, an important day for financially literate taxpayers in the U.S., Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software and Castilleja alumna, will be our very first guest blogger. You can check out her special credentials at her own blog.

So bookmark All Girls, email to a friend or colleague, join our RSS feed, and let’s turn up the volume on NCGS. Let me know what you want to see discussed (and showcased) in the future. I was once told by Helen Gulick, who was well into her vigorous 80s at the time, “There is only one possible failure in life. It is the failure to participate.”  I pass this wisdom along to you.

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about the header: in the background is a little girl’s blouse, called a huipil, indigenous costume of Guatemala. I plan to change the header from time to time, using the same metal letters but switching the background, using textiles associated with girls and women.