Check out our past events for on-demand webinars and summary resources of AYPF forums, discussion groups, and study tours.
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- Accountability
- COVID-19 Response
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers
- English Language Learners
- Assessment
- Research-practice partnerships
- Alternative Education
- College and Career Readiness in OST
- Carl D. Perkins Act
- Equity
- Deeper Learning
- First-Generation College Students
- Data Management
- Afterschool and Out-of-School Time Learning
- Intermediaries
- Career Pathways
- Justice-Involved Youth
- Educator Preparation and Professional Development
- OST System Building
- College and Career Readiness and Success
- Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
- Reengagement
- Deeper Learning
- Research Evidence in Policymaking
- Opportunity Youth
- Wraparound Supports
- Postsecondary Education
- Higher Education Act (HEA)
- Personalized Learning
- School and Community Partnerships
- Service Learning
- Skill Development
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Learning and Teaching Strategies
- Rural Populations
- Skill Development
- Social and Emotional Learning
- State-Level Policies
- Social and Emotional Learning
- Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- System Strategies and Approaches
- Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
- Youth Populations
- Youth in Foster Care
- STEM
- Work-Based Learning
- Policies & Legislation
- Youth with (Dis)abilities
- Youth Leadership and Voice
Increasing Postsecondary Success: Lessons from Community College Innovations
OverviewThis forum examined the important role of community colleges in increasing the number of Americans with postsecondary degrees and providing workers wit…
Developing Innovative Schools and Policy Supports for Deeper Learning
-OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit professional development organization that provides learning opportunities for policymakers, prac…
Examining the Role of Summer Bridge Programs in Promoting College Readiness and Completion: Lessons Learned from Texas’ Developmental Summer Bridges
OverviewAs colleges across the nation strive to reduce the number of students requiring developmental education, summer bridge programs have emerged as a promi…
Strategies to Improve Outcomes for High School English Language Learners: Implications for Federal Policy
OVERVIEWThis forum examined strategies to improve the achievement, language proficiency, and graduation rates of adolescent English Language Learners (ELLs). T…
Supporting Success at the Postsecondary Level
OverviewWhile the U.S. has expanded access to college in recent years, it is becoming increasingly apparent that getting in the door to college does not necess…
Using Data to Improve College Completion Rates: Key State Actions and Implications for Policy
Overview Though our nation has made great strides in increasing access to college for more young Americans, completion of college remains an area of chall…
Building a Portfolio of Options to Ensure All Students Graduate: Lessons Learned from Newark, NJ’s Partnership with the Association for High School Innovation (AHSI)
OverviewAYPF hosted a webinar to highlight the work of the Association for High School Innovation (AHSI), a collaboration of education providers and advocates …
Blurring the Boundaries of School: How Providence, Rhode Island, is Taking a Community Approach to Expanded Learning Opportunities
OverviewThis forum showcased the AfterZone Initiative in Providence, RI, that has taken a community-wide approach to providing afterschool opportunities for mi…
Data Driven Educator Development
-OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) hosted a site visit and learning exchange to New Orleans, Louisiana entitled…
Establishing a Foundation for Learning & Growth: Closing Gaps in College & Career Preparation
Overview Significant opportunity and achievement gaps impact students’ access to rigorous curricula, rich learning environments, educators with high expec…
Disconnected Youth: Defining the Population and Exploring Solutions
Overview Much attention has been given to the number of students who drop out of high school, yet significant numbers of these students eventually do earn…
Building a Better School Day: The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative
OverviewThis webinar examined the creation, implementation, and results of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative. Presenters highlighted the need…
Preparing Students for the Rapidly-Changing World: Implications for Instruction and Assessment (Forum 3)
Click here to view the entire forum!OverviewThis is the third in a series of three AYPF Capitol Hill forums to address the need for a new approach to education…
Offering High School Credit Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
Overview This forum highlighted the New Hampshire Extended Learning Opportunities (NH ELO) Initiative that seeks to offer credit to high school students f…
Building a Portfolio of Options to Ensure All Students Graduate
Overview This forum highlighted the work of the Association for High School Innovation (AHSI), a collaboration of education providers and advocates that w…
Preparing Students for the Rapidly-Changing World: Implications for Instruction and Assessment (Forum 2)
OverviewThis is the second in a series of three forums to discuss new strategies for instruction and assessment in the knowledge economy, which demands more ad…
Envisioning a Different School Day: How Boston and New York Are Using Expanded Learning Time
Overview As we seek to prepare students for college and career success in the 21st Century, there has been a great deal of discussion around modernizing t…
Building Capacity to Promote College- and Career-Readiness for English Language Learners
-OverviewThis fact-finding trip, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, enabled state policymakers to learn about Texas’ strategies for moving its E…
Getting the Right Data to the Right People: How to Present and Communicate Data to Educators, Administrators, and the Public
-OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) are leading a site visit and learning exchange to Little Rock, Arkansas ent…
Preparing Students for the Rapidly-Changing World: Implications for Instruction and Assessment
OverviewOn April 23, AYPF held the first in a series of three forums that were designed to discuss the new strategies for instruction and assessment, given the…