Overcoming Obstacles Life Skills Program – Jill Siegal Chalsty

In 2014 at TEDxCharleston, Jill Siegal Chalsty presented her Overcoming Obstacles Life Skills Program. Chalsty is an education reformer who founded Community for Education Foundation. Watch as she describes a crystallizing moment for her efforts to improve cooperative learning.  Chalsty says the way to help young people succeed, in the classroom and beyond, is to build their education on a strong foundation of communication, decision-making and goal setting tools.