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 New Postsecondary Reality: Structured and Supportive Pathways to Credential Attainment
This convening highlighted examples from across the country of innovative and effective ways to support students from K-12 through postsecondary credential att…
Study Tour (Miami, FL) How Career Pathways Lead to Student Success
This study tour focused on how a large, urban school district developed career pathways that create opportunities for all students to be successful in high sch…
Dual Enrollment: The Role of Policy in Promoting Quality Pathways to Postsecondary Success
This webinar focused on dual enrollment as part of an overall effort to ensure all students have flexible and appropriate pathways to postsecondary success.
Transforming Remedial Education to Improve Postsecondary Attainment
This forum explored how state and federal policy can accelerate proven reforms that will be central to meeting state and national goals to increase college att…
Exploring Innovative Schools and Policy Supports that Prepare College and Career Ready Students – San Francisco, CA
-This study tour highlighted schools that incorporate rigorous academics, deeper learning experiences, higher order skills, and innovative and effective practic…
Exploring Innovative Schools and Policy Supports that Prepare College and Career Ready Students – San Diego, CA
-This study tour highlighted schools that incorporate rigorous academics, deeper learning experiences, higher order skills, and innovative and effective practic…
Dual Enrollment: Latest Research & Policy Development
This webinar highlighted the growing body of research on dual enrollment and examined recent policy trends.
Increasing College and Career Readiness through Dual Enrollment: Research, Policies, and Effective Practices
This forum highlighted the different types of dual enrollment programs as well as what research says about their effectiveness, and showcased a unique Early Co…
Dual Enrollment: A Strategy for Improving College Readiness and Success for All Students
This forum highlighted the ways that dual enrollment can be used as a strategy to promote college and career readiness for all students.
Career Pathways to Employment: Aligning Career and Technical Education to Labor Market Projections
This forum highlighted a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce entitled: Career Clusters: Forecasting High School thr…
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…
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…
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…
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…
State Strategies to Ensure All Students Graduate
-OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional development organization that bridges youth policy, practice and resear…
Preparing Rural Students for Success Beyond High School
-OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) brought a group of federal policy leaders to North Carolina to examine how rural education systems are providing…
The Means to Grow Up: The Role of Apprenticeship in Preparing All Youth for College and Career Success
OverviewThis AYPF forum reflected the growing national dialogue about how to ensure that youth receive the skills and experiences they need to be productive, s…
Redefining College Readiness: Efforts from Leading States
Overview This forum is the first in a series of three events entitled “Laying the Groundwork for a College-Going and Career-Ready Culture” focused on efforts t…
Citizen Schools: Expanding Learning Opportunities to Prepare Middle School Students for High School Success
OverviewIncreasingly, policymakers and practitioners are interested in ELOs for various reasons. This forum, the second in a four-part series on Extended Learn…
Linking Secondary and Post Secondary Systems – Lessons from Indiana
-Issue Brief: Linking Secondary and Postsecondary Systems – Lessons from IndianaOverviewThis trip provided participants the opportunity to experience the many …