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Back to School, Back to Reality: Why Our Students Need This Literacy and Life Skills Curriculum Now More Than Ever

Summer Owens — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 01:22:35 +0000

As the school bells ring and students walk through the doors of schools across the country, backpacks are full of new notebooks, sharpened pencils, and hopeful expectations. But too many of those same students are carrying something heavier—trauma, uncertainty, fear, and deep emotional wounds no school supply can fix. I’ve spent over a decade in […]

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How One Literacy and Life Skills Program Is Transforming Classrooms and Student Lives

Summer Owens — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:52 +0000

Something powerful just happened at Hillcrest High School… and it’s exactly what so many schools need right now. After a semester of using the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education Program, I had the chance to visit the students who had been reading my book and going through the lessons. The moment I walked […]

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Celebrating Grandparents Day: How I Turned Grief Into Something Grief On My Grandparents Day First Without My Grandmas

Summer Owens — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:05:48 +0000

This Grandparents Day is bittersweet for me. It’s the first one without my grandmothers, Agnes Idella “Dorothy” Jones Owens and Ocie Lee Woods Williams, who both transitioned this year. They were two of the strongest, wisest women I’ve ever known, and they lived nearly a century each, shaping my life with love, resilience, and humor. […]

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Actions and Accountability, Choices and Consequences: The Capital Murder of My Cousin, Avis Terrell Jones

Summer Owens — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:40:25 +0000

August 22, 2021, that was the last time I saw my cousin Avis Terrell Jones. He was showing me around a house he was fixing up for his mother. It was about two months before his life was tragically taken. I had gone to visit his father, my great uncle, who is now my grandmother’s […]

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10-DAY 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY COUNTDOWN- DAY 3: Take Action and Persevere

Summer Owens — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 08:00:39 +0000

Here comes the scariest part…taking action! Then sticking with it when it gets hard. It’s Day 3 in my 10-day countdown to my 10th anniversary of my last day before becoming a full-time speaker and entrepreneur. Yes, I’m celebrating ten years as an entrepreneur, but let me tell you…this journey is not for the weak. […]

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Marcus Heaston S.O. What! Success Story

Summer Owens — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:00:25 +0000

It’s funny when you meet someone who has “known” you for 20 years. Because I’m on a mission to impact as many youth and young adults as possible with the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, and Character Education Curriculum, I am always connecting with educators. When I sent a connection request on LinkedIn to Marcus […]

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Burned by Bullying, Victorious as a Veteran – Justin Brazil S.O. What! Success Story

Summer Owens — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 05:00:28 +0000

Once I started sharing my story, I began to hear and embrace the stories of others more and that includes Justin Brazil story. A few years ago, I spoke on a local panel and met an amazing man with an incredible story of resilience. One of the topics of the S.O. What! Literacy, Life Skills, […]

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Persevere to the End

Summer Owens — Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:53 +0000

Today as I celebrate my 42nd birthday, I also reflect on my 15th birthday when an incident that happened so fast changed everything about my life. And made me question if I would be successful. What I learned in my journey, 26 years after becoming a mother, is that to be successful in life you […]

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10 years later. 5 More Life Lessons from My Story

Summer Owens — Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:48 +0000

Ten years ago, I shared my story and life lessons in my first book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother. I had no idea then what would happen when I told it. A new chapter in my life started back then. And as I celebrate an anniversary like […]

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