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Youth Voice: Redefining the Meaning of Intervention

July 31, 2018

Harsh discipline practices focus on assigning guilt, but restorative justice works to identify why something happened and what the student and the community needs in order to move forward. It allows young people to be viewed as the holistic individuals they are, and it builds a better foundation to start conversations around relationship-building.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Voice, Special Populations, School Discipline

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

I Was a Homeless Student and School Helped Me Find My Way Home

July 10, 2018

I first experienced homelessness with my family, then on my own. I was born to a single mother and a father who was absent because of post-traumatic stress disorder he developed after the war. Throughout my childhood, my mother, two sisters and I moved from home to home, sometimes not having one at all.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Homeless Youth, Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Youth Voice: Homelessness

Our National and Moral Responsibility to Young People

April 18, 2018

Adults often complain that kids today don't respect their elders. But what happens when it's the other way around? What if young people are the ones who are not getting the respect and dignity they need to be successful in school and life?

Type: Opinion

TAG: Using Data, Family Engagement, Special Populations, School Discipline, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign

Youth Voice: The Hidden Practice Pushing Students Out of School

February 28, 2018

Much has been written about the problems with zero-tolerance discipline policies, but there’s another practice in Minnesota that contributes to school pushout without the attention: suspending or expelling students for “discretionary violations.” Under Minnesota Law, educators can dismiss youth if the “willful conduct...significantly disrupts the rights of others to an education.” There are a few major problems with this.

Type: Opinion

TAG: School Discipline, Equity, Black/African-American, Special Populations, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Youth Voice: I am Not Your Good Immigrant

November 14, 2017

I am not better nor am I worse than the other 10.2 million undocumented immigrants that were not granted this protection in the first place. I am not the “Good Immigrant.” I am not the “Dreamer.” Our parents, our families, those who made the decision to come to a country in which they are criminalized, they are the original dreamers. Not us.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Standing with Dreamers and the Promise of America

September 07, 2017

The removal of DACA announced on Tuesday threatens the futures of nearly 800,000 undocumented children and youth living in the United States.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Youth Voice: We Must Never Give Up

July 11, 2017

Whether it’s learning English or challenging the negative stereotypes of being an immigrant, one young man demonstrates the importance of persistence, courage, and hope in hard times in this moving personal narrative.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Special Populations, English Learners

promises: Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign

Teen Pregnancy is at an All-Time Low. That Doesn’t Mean the Work is Over.

May 15, 2017

In the recently released Our Work: A Framework for Accelerating Progress for Children and Youth in America, two statistics are cited side by side: “High school graduation is at an all-time high, and teen pregnancy is at a historic low.”

Type: Opinion

TAG: Special Populations, Recommit2Kids

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

What Wellness Doesn’t Look Like: The Optics and Impact of Violence on Young People’s Health

January 09, 2017

As a child, I knew certain streets were dangerous, that police could not be trusted, and that stepping on someone’s shoes on the bus could get you killed. Community violence was normal to me, but not to my peers at school.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign

Do African-American Males Have the Moral Obligation to Become School Teachers?

December 06, 2016

“You should think about becoming a high school teacher. That’s what a Western Michigan University professor said to me—his graduate teaching assistant—after a group of students who failed the first exam handed in their second exam of the semester.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign