The Sparkle Effect helps students create cheerleading and dance teams that include students with disabilities.

The Sparkle Effect is an innovative program that helps students across the country create cheerleading and dance teams in middle schools, high schools, and colleges that include students with disabilities. We provide everything that's needed, including our Quick Start Kit and peer mentoring. We also have grants available for uniforms and we provide free on-site training. Sparkle Effect teams have formed nationwide, so learn more and get started today!

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Sarah Cronk -- Bettendorf, IA; Founder of The Sparkle Effect, a student-run program that empowers teens nationwide to include students with disabilities in school-based cheerleading and dance programs. Sarah founded The Sparkle Effect in 2008, and it continues to profoundly change the lives and outlooks of participating students with and without disabilities, replacing insecurity with confidence and joy.

what is the sparkle effect?

This innovative student-run program empowers teens nationwide to include students with disabilities in school-based cheerleading and dance programs. Sparkle Effect teams are truly inclusive: typically-developing students and students with disabilities practice and perform as one team at school sporting events.

A Quick-Start kit, grants for uniforms, and free on-site training makes starting an inclusive team easy and fun! The result: students with disabilities experience true acceptance and gain confidence while high-school students become passionate leaders that inspire entire communities to embrace inclusion.


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Inspired by The Sparkle Effect, a program that encourages teens nationwide to include students with disabilities into school-based cheerleading programs, Newbury Park High School cheerleaders brought this to their school. With Ethan and Jenna's help, the girls got the chance to perform for Chivas fans at The Home Depot Center and a surprise celeb encounter with Glee's own cheerleader, Lauren Potter.

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