Endeavor Courses

Since I was a freshman in high school, I knew I wanted to be an educator; I wanted to help others see things beyond what was easy and obvious. Every choice since then has been under those auspices. I graduated from Pepperdine University with a degree in English, and spent the next 17 years teaching English Literature, Photography, and Journalism. When the opportunity came to teach a program designed to help struggling students make sense of an educational system that didn’t satisfy them, I was honored to do so. Much of what I have taught in this program has become the foundation for Endeavor. 

Over the last 28 years, I have had a front-row seat to the transformation students have gone through at the hands of devices and social media. In my first year of teaching, not a single student had a cell phone. Now, every student has one in their hands, and the effect and harm couldn't be more profound.

During this time of such a monumental psychological shift and the altering of our children’s very foundations of identity, our education system has made very little change to qualitatively keep up with this new reality our children face. 

The opportunity to learn the lessons paramount to individual success has been replaced by mindless scrolling and identities defined by social contagion rather than the time-honored values borne of overcoming adversity and eschewing mediocrity.. 

At Endeavor, our goal is to equip today’s youth with the attitude and posture necessary for success, and to be able to confidently say, in the face of any manner of adversity and obstacle, “I will endeavor.”