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
The Impact of Higher Achievement’s Year-Round Out-of-School-Time Program on Academic Outcomes
This forum highlighted a new report from Higher Achievement, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit that provides youth with a rigorous afterschool and academic summ…
Aligning K-12 and Higher Education to Support College and Career Readiness and Success
-OverviewThis study mission for state policymakers focused on how policies can strengthen the alignment of expectations and resources across the educational pip…
Reducing High School Dropouts: Strategies to Help More Students be College and Career Ready
// OverviewTo succeed in today’s economy, young people must complete high school, yet a quarter of the nation’s youth do not earn a high school diploma. Our n…
How Rural High Schools are Preparing Students for College and Careers through Dual Enrollment and Career and Technical Education
OverviewThis webinar described how rural schools are preparing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in college and in jobs by crea…
The Challenges and Successes of School Turnaround: Looking Back and Charting the Course Forward
// OverviewTurning around low-performing schools has been a persistent challenge over the past few decades. This issue has taken on new urgency in recent years…
Successful School-Community Partnerships: Using Lessons Learned from Practice and Research to Expand Learning
OverviewAs policymakers and practitioners consider ways to provide high-quality learning opportunities to all students through expanded day and afterschool pro…
What You’ve Always Wanted to Know about Assessment But Were Afraid to Ask
OverviewThis briefing was exclusively for Congressional staff on the topic of assessment in education. It was an interactive, engaging session featuring Dr. An…
The Impact of Expanded Learning Time: The After-School Corporation Model in New York City
-OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), in partnership with the Coalition for Building After School Systems (CBASS), led a study tour for Congressional…
An Exploration of Concurrent Enrollment as a Strategy to Support College and Career Readiness and Success
OverviewThis discussion in collaboration with the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnership (NACEP) focused on how concurrent enrollment can suppo…
Working Collaboratively Across Systems to Better Serve Youth
OverviewThis meeting provided participants with an opportunity to revisit and delve deeper into the main themes and questions raised by the previous three meet…
History and Overview of the ESEA
Overview This briefing was the first in a series of briefings designed to provide information to Congressional staff who work on education issues. This br…
Building Competency-Based Pathways: Successes and Challenges from Leaders in the Field
Overview This forum provided an overview of competency-based pathways to education and described programs that have successfully utilized these pathways t…
Improving College and Career Readiness and Success through P-20 Collaboration
-Overview Slides from the follow-up webinar to this trip can be found here»This field trip, a collaboration between AYPF and the Data Quality Campaign, was…
The Role of Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) in Preparing Youth for College and Career Success
-Overview Participants heard from a diverse set of influential policymakers at both the state and local levels and participate in three site visits as part…
Using Data to Align Resources to Create a Comprehensive Learning System
OverviewThis webinar focused on how outcome management systems support city and district efforts to build a system of comprehensive services to ensure all stud…
Exploring Innovative Schools and Policies that Prepare Students to be College and Career Ready
-Overview The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit professional development organization that provides learning opportunities for policymakers…
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century
OverviewDespite decades of efforts to reform education and billions of dollars of expenditures, America is still failing to prepare millions of its young peopl…
Offering High School Credit Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
OverviewThis webinar highlighted the New Hampshire Extended Learning Opportunities (NH ELO) Initiative that seeks to offer credit to high school students for o…
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…