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Our fun and engaging “Superhero 9” program learning materials empowers girls to improve their confidence, self-esteem and achieve their full potential. Girls discover their inner hero through "Superhero 9", which combines Education and Entertainment into Edutainment — a fun and engaging way for students to learn about the multiple intelligences, social causes, character traits, and career exploration. By learning about the MI9 Team superheroes and exploring the qualities that define each superhero, participants learn to embrace the super powers within themselves.
Dr. Howard Gardner's Official Authoritative Site of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dr. Gardner presented the theory of multiple intelligences for the first time in 1983 in the book Frames of Mind. Since then, the theory has been used in a wide variety of contexts and most frequently in education with students of all levels. Find out more at Gardner’s official MI website at multipleintelligencesoasis.org.
Read Amy Mintz: Using Multiple Intelligences Theory to Understand Your "Superpowers" Dr. Howard Gardner's Official Authoritative Site of Multiple Intelligences,
discussing MI9 Team superheroes and the effectiveness of the multiple intelligences to increase self-esteem in youth.
Youth participants who successfully completed “Superhero 9” showed average gains of 20% improvement in self-esteem, as measured in surveys provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
-- Dr. Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
-- Allan Luks, Founding Director of the Center for Nonprofit Leadership at Fordham University
-- Nicole Mahool, Dean of Students at Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce
-- Maria Santiago, M.A., LDTC, Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant
-- Alexander Smith, Film Director/Producer, Uber Entertainment Ltd.
Research shows that low self-esteem and confidence are seriously harming the lives of youth in America. Low self-esteem and confidence is linked to many harmful behaviors in adolescence and results in negative outcomes as an adult, including failing to reach one’s professional potential as an adult as well as poorer mental and physical health and higher criminal rates.
The great news is that this is a trait that can be reversed with action.
Student participants who successfully completed “Superhero 9” showed average gains of 20% improvement in self-esteem, as measured in surveys provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The MI9 Team is a group of nine superheroes who joined forces to achieve social change. Each member represents one of the nine multiple intelligences (hence the name of the team: MI9): verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, to name a few and embodies a specific character trait, like leadership, determination and tenacity. They must constantly defend themselves and protect others as they battle against a gang of six supervillains, who are dead set on destroying anything in their paths. MI9 Team introduces each one of the characters and sets the stage for a battle between good and evil.