FLEX HEADSTART

Electives

In HeadStart Elective courses, students engage in opportunities to have fun while developing skills with high practical value, regardless of their chosen academic pathways.

Overview

FLEX HeadStart Electives provide students an opportunity to try something new and different outside of their chosen areas of academic focus.

These unique, project-based courses aim to spark interest and develop specific skills that can be utilized across many pathways and disciplines.

Coursework that works

ONE

Introduction to Speech, The Podcast

Open to 6th–8th graders, this course lets students become their own radio hosts and craft short podcasts. Through storyboarding, scriptwriting, public speaking practice, interviewing, along with sound recording equipment and editing software, students create a finished product and gain the knowledge of creating public podcasts for everyone to hear. Not only will students learn more about an educational subject but will learn how to apply it outside of the classroom, by creating it in an audio format that fits the needs of a digitally growing world.

TWO

Cyber Etiquette & Communication

At a time when one in three internet users is under 18 years old, it is essential for students to know how to conduct themselves safely, effectively, and politely in digital spaces. In the Cyber Etiquette & Communication course, students learn how to tailor their writing to different online contexts, safely navigate digital platforms, as well as mindfully build their online identities and reputations.

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Education

Doctoral study in Human Development and
Psychology – Harvard University
M.A. Applied Child Development – Tufts University
B.A. Anthropology – Boston University

Martha Crowe

Master Consultant & Instructor

Martha Crowe has worked with, for, and on behalf of youth for three decades, as a social worker, child advocate, nonprofit director, consultant, and for the past eight years, as a professor, researcher, and medical writer at SDSU. Helping people tell their stories has been at the heart of each phase of her career. Martha loves getting to know young people — to hear about what they care about, what they are good at, and what their dreams are for their futures. And magic can happen when they trust her enough to help them tell their stories in an authentic and compelling way that both honors who they are and convinces admissions counselors to accept them.

Martha believes in taking a personalized approach with each student, tailoring her time with them based on their individual writing skills and learning needs. Her approach is always based on genuine care and concern combined with concrete action items and deadlines. For the past four years, Martha has helped students get into a variety of colleges, as well as honors programs within those colleges, from tiny to huge, rural to urban, California to the East Coast: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, Northeastern, UMass Amherst, University of Michigan, Syracuse, Macalester, Santa Clara University, Pepperdine, University of San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Cal Lutheran, Cal Arts, Claremont McKenna Colleges, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne, among others.

Martha grew up in Kansas City and joyfully left for Boston after high school, attending Boston University, Tufts, and Harvard for undergraduate and graduate school. She moved to SoCal in 2004 to spend time with her brother after graduation, and like so many others, forgot to leave. Most importantly, she’s a mom to three kids, who are, at the time of this writing, 18, 16, and 12, and an auntie to 58 nieces and nephews (true story) and too many great nieces and nephews to count. In her spare time, Martha volunteers with High Tech High, Miracle League, and Meals on Wheels, is an avid reader, and loves hanging out with her kids.