Being Me is an online social network and integrated wellness curriculum (Being Well) being designed for faculty and students of the new public school Quest to Learn (Q2L). Designed to support the digital lives of young people and their capacity for learning, Q2L is dedicated to graduating strong, engaged, literate citizens of a networked world. In order to help kids prepare for this future, student identity is a core value of the school. Being Me supports this value in providing a long-term space for students to document, explore, and “take on” a range of identities within a connected community of practice. The space is designed to help move kids from identities as social selves to identities as learner selves, and to help kids discover what it is that they are interested in doing, thinking about, and being.

Support for the Being Me social network was provided by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation