As 2018 comes to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support. This year has been filled with much to celebrate as we not only commemorated our 25th anniversary, but also launched our new and improved website. From all of us here at AYPF we wish you all a safe and festive holiday season!
On-Demand Webinar: How National Service Can Advance the Mission, Goals, and Capacity of Nonprofits (Tuesday, December 11, 2018)
National service programs provide the perfect means to build the organizational capacity of a nonprofit by providing access to committed, talented young adults who have been equipped with the tools and skills needed to take root in the organizations that they serve. This webinar highlighted how service year programs at nonprofits can strengthen an organization’s ability to reach its goals and fulfill its mission over time.
Looking Back, Looking Forward By: Betsy Brand
The end of the year is always a time for reflection, and as AYPF’s 25th year ends, I have been reflecting even more on our work and the education, youth, and workforce policy environment. What has changed and what hasn’t changed over those 25 years? Are things better or worse for youth? What can we point to as “wins?” What does this signify for the future?….I’m disappointed that there are still so many young people who are disconnected from education, the workforce, and society and that so much inequity exists across groups of these young people.
CompetencyWorks & iNACOL: Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems
This report uses logic model frameworks to convey relationships between essential levers (outcomes, drivers and mediating factors) that inform the design of competency-based education systems and critical components of competency-based practice at four interdependent levels (student experience, professional practice of educators, district and school systems, and culture).
Learning Policy Institute: Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap
This report provides information on which states, under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), are committed to using one or more of the following five measures (or “indicators”) to identify sources of inequity and the appropriate intervention and support needed: suspension rates; school climate; chronic absenteeism; extended-year graduation rate; and access to a college- and career-ready curricula.
Office of Adolescent Health: Think, Act, Grow 2018 Playbook
The Think, Act, Grow (TAG) Playbook is a comprehensive guide that provides a framework for taking action to promote adolescent health. The Playbook has sections for professionals from different sectors, including resources and action steps built on updated research findings, best practices, and experience from previous initiatives.
The Wallace Foundation: Kernels of Practice for SEL: Low-Cost, Low-Burden Strategies
This brief examines how “kernels” or concentrated strategies that target a specific behavior could be taught quickly in various settings to maximize the impact of social and emotional learning.