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Surfing Educator & Advocate
About Rebecca Ward
In 2017, after witnessing three near-drowning incidents in a single week at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach, Rebecca Ward co-founded the Saltwater Literacy Project, a free, bilingual curriculum now used by 42 coastal school districts across California and Hawaii. She doesn’t just teach how to pop up on a board; she maps tide charts onto elementary math lessons and trains lifeguards to recognize panic cues in non-native English speakers. Her signature ‘Wave Readiness Assessment’ evaluates not just swimming ability but cultural familiarity with ocean rhythms, whether a child grew up hearing stories of El Niño from elders or first saw the sea through a smartphone screen. Rebecca insists that water safety isn’t about fear management, but about building embodied literacy: reading swell direction like syntax, sensing riptide pull like grammar, trusting intuition honed over hours, not algorithms. Her students don’t earn certificates, they co-author community surf protocols for their neighborhoods.
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- “How do you adapt surf instruction for kids who’ve never touched saltwater?”
- “What’s the most misunderstood thing about rip currents in Pacific Coast communities?”
- “Can you break down your Wave Readiness Assessment step-by-step?”
- “How did the Saltwater Literacy Project change teacher training in CA schools?”