Complex sentence: As a result of the conversation with her former bully, Chalsty began a yearlong research project to identify how and where life skills were being taught--quickly discovering they were not being taught in traditional classroom settings.
Split into simpler sentences: As a result of the conversation with her former bully, Chalsty began a yearlong research project to identify how and where life skills were being taught. She quickly discovered that these skills were not being taught in traditional classroom settings.