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
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- English Language Learners
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- Research-practice partnerships
- Alternative Education
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- Carl D. Perkins Act
- Equity
- Deeper Learning
- First-Generation College Students
- Data Management
- Afterschool and Out-of-School Time Learning
- Intermediaries
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- Justice-Involved Youth
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- OST System Building
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- Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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- Research Evidence in Policymaking
- Opportunity Youth
- Wraparound Supports
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- Personalized Learning
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- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Learning and Teaching Strategies
- Rural Populations
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- Social and Emotional Learning
- State-Level Policies
- Social and Emotional Learning
- Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- System Strategies and Approaches
- Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
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- Youth with (Dis)abilities
- Youth Leadership and Voice
Weighing the Evidence: A Conversation with Community College Presidents on Using Research to Support Student Success Outcomes
This forum highlighted a portfolio of new research on several promising strategies to help underprepared students transition to college and ultimately advance …
Building a Comprehensive System to Support All Students Getting to High School Graduation and Beyond
This forum focused on what a responsive system for all youth looks like based upon the current reform efforts in Massachusetts and New York City.
Creating State Accountability Systems that Measure College and Career Readiness for All Students
This webinar examined how states’ education accountability systems can be refined to more accurately measure progress toward high school graduation and college…
Supporting a Robust Teacher Pipeline: A Discussion of the Key Issues, Efforts, and the Role of Federal Policy
This forum highlighted current efforts to support the development of a strong teacher pipeline to improve student achievement.
Navigating the Intersection of Teacher Effectiveness Policies and State Data Capacity: Nashville, TN
-This study tour provided an opportunity for state policy teams to learn more about the link between teacher-student data and policies around teacher effectiven…
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.
Understanding STEM Education: A Discussion of the Key Issues, Efforts, and the Role of Federal Policy
This forum highlighted the role of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in preparing America’s youth with the skills needed for jobs in today’s eco…
Using Data to Improve Quality in City-wide Afterschool Systems: Lessons from Boston
This forum focused on efforts underway across the country to use data to improve the quality of city-wide afterschool systems and highlighted the work being do…
Using Data and Inquiry to Build Equity-Focused College-Going Cultures
This webinar focused on how to use data and inquiry to promote an equity-based college-going culture through the use of the Equity Scorecard.
Using Data to Improve Quality in City-wide Afterschool Systems: Lessons from Providence
This forum highlighted findings from the latest Public/Private Ventures evaluation of AfterZone, as well as focused on key levers that improve program quality …
The Impact of Higher Achievement’s Year-Round Out-of-School-Time Program on Academic Outcomes
This webinar highlighted Higher Achievement, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit that provides youth with a rigorous afterschool and academic summer experience.
Online Learning: Changing the Face of Education
This forum focused on where progress stands in regards to online learning, as well as addressed the challenges of online learning, including program quality, o…
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…
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…
Transition to Adulthood: Roundtable Discussions on Practice and Policy
// OverviewAYPF, in collaboration with "The Future of Children", hosted a day-long event disseminating the research and findings of the Transition to Adulthood…
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…