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
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- 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
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- Policies & Legislation
- Youth with (Dis)abilities
- Youth Leadership and Voice
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Using Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) to Manage Key Transition Periods for At-Risk Youth
OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum hosted a discussion group to explore how Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) are being used to manage key transition…