Case Study: Building Responsive Pathways to Graduation and Beyond

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

This brief provides tangible examples of the ways in which the five Acceleration sites are offering and integrating internships, work-based learning, and/or work-readiness education to ensure…

Case Study: Creating Effective Youth-Supporting Partnerships

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

In this case study, you will find examples of how the Acceleration sites have brought partner organizations to the table, have established and built on a shared vision, and have utilized data-driven…

Case Study: Holistic Approaches to Helping Young People Succeed

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

In this case study, you will find concrete examples of the ways in which these exemplar states and communities are putting people over programs and establishing structures for holistic support for…

Youth Engagement Guide

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

This youth engagement guide contains actionable strategies that educators, program providers, coaches, mentors, and other youth-supporting adults can use to authentically listen to and engage with…

All of Who I Am

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

More and more leaders are expressing support for a holistic approach to learning and development, but until now, less was known about how young people themselves perceive and experience these…

APPENDIX: COVID-19’s Impact on Young People

Friday, June 12, 2020

The following summary shows each survey question asked, along with how young people responded. Young people surveyed were presented with a range of questions about their experiences with remote…

The State of Young People during COVID-19

Thursday, June 11, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis looms large, creating deep and disparate consequences for young people and their families. Our nationally representative survey of high school youth reveals…

Appendix: The State of Young People During COVID-19

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

America’s Promise Alliance COVID-19 Resource Collection

Monday, April 6, 2020

At America's Promise we are being proactive about learning from our partners and the leaders in communities we work with who are responding to the COVID-19 outbreak with evidence-backed strategies…

Creating Cultures of Care: Supporting the Whole Child through Trauma-Informed Practice

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

This brief offers a framework for how trauma-informed practice complements positive youth development, while illustrating the bridge between theory and practice. You’ll read about the work of two…

Ready, Connected, Supported: A Framework for Youth Workforce Development and the YES Project

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Ready, Connected, Supported: A Framework for Youth Workforce Development and the YES Project, a working paper from the Center for Promise—the research arm of America’s Promise Alliance--provides an…

READY CONNECTED SUPPORTED

Friday, October 25, 2019

SELExchange

Friday, October 11, 2019

How and why are the social and emotional learning and out-of-school time fields converging? How can we support young people’s comprehensive growth and development across settings? These questions…

Communications Playbook Case Study

Thursday, October 3, 2019

These resources are designed to accompany the Nation at Hope report as a way to help educators, youth-development professionals, and leaders communicate with families about social, emotional,…

Call for Community Conveners on How Learning Happens

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Join the national and local movement to advance young people’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. America’s Promise is seeking five community conveners to inspire action on how learning…

2019 Building A Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Authored by Civic and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, and released annually in partnership with the Alliance for Excellent Education and America’s…

Achieving a 90 Percent Graduation Rate Webinar: Making Effective Work-Based Learning Real for All Students

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

hear from Urban Alliance, which provides underserved high school seniors with training, internships, & mentoring that build the social, emotional, and cognitive skills they need to succeed in…

More Than a Village

Friday, April 12, 2019

More Than a Village: Perspectives on Re-engagement in Tucson is the second part of a two-part research series focused on high school re-engagement in Tucson, Arizona. The first piece in this series,…

Building Systems of Integrated Student Support

Monday, April 8, 2019

This resource provides state-by-state and issue-specific analyses of how state laws address the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

The District Resource Center supports systemic SEL implementation

Friday, March 29, 2019

The DRC shares learnings from CASEL’s Collaborating Districts Initiative, a partnership with districts representing 1+ million students across the U.S. Based on these efforts to study and scale…

From A Nation At Risk: To A Nation At Hope

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

A growing movement dedicated to the social, emotional, and academic well-being of children is reshaping learning and changing lives across America. On the strength of its remarkable consensus, a…

Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools: Resources to Support Policymakers and Advocates

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools provides state-by-state and issue-specific analyses of how state laws address the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community,…

Responding to Trauma through Policies that Create Supportive Learning Environments

Thursday, January 31, 2019

This brief introduces a Trauma-Informed Policy Framework to Create Supportive Learning Environments to help state officials create supportive learning environments that meet the needs of students ...

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth was authored by Shannon Varga, Max Margolius, Catalina Tang Yan, Anna Skubel, Marissa L. Cole, and Jonathan F. Zaff, at the Center for…

State laws promoting social, emotional, and academic development leave room for improvement

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Policymakers increasingly recognize that social and emotional development plays a critical role in students’ ability to learn, and are enacting policies to encourage the integration of social and…

Creating Sustainable Career Pathways For Disconnected Youth

Wednesday, December 12, 2018