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Youth Engagement Discussion Guide

December 15, 2020

Students across the country are feeling the effects of a rapidly changing world—from the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on their lives and learning environments, to widespread uprisings in response to ongoing systemic racism. This discussion guide offers topical discussion questions focused on the issues that young people have identified as priorities at this moment in time. Our hope is that this guide can be used by school, district, out-of-school time, and other community leaders or youth-supporting adults who wish to partner with young people in their communities to better understand…

Type: Resource

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens, Power of Youth - Racial Healing

America’s Promise Messaging Frameworks

October 29, 2020

Type: Resource

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens, GradNation Campaign

What Drives Learning: Young People’s Perspectives on the Importance of Relationships, Belonging, & Agency

September 23, 2020

What Drives Learning: Young People’s Perspectives on the Importance of Relationships, Belonging, and Agency is the newest report in the How Learning Happens research series. Based on findings from a nationally representative survey of 3,300 high school students, the report provides insight into young people’s perceptions of the conditions that support their social, emotional, and cognitive learning and development. What Drives Learning highlights the effect that supportive relationships, a sense of belonging, and feelings of agency can have on students’ self-reported engagement and learning…

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SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens Research Series, How Learning Happens

The State of Young People during COVID-19 Infographic

July 24, 2020

Findings from a nationally representative survey of high school students.

Type: Resource

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens, How Learning Happens Research Series, Youth Voice: Learning

The State of Young People during COVID-19

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 their perceptions of the pandemic’s impact on their learning and their lives. The findings suggest that students are experiencing a collective trauma, and that they and their families would benefit from immediate and ongoing support.

Type: Resource

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens, How Learning Happens Research Series, Youth Voice: Learning

America’s Promise Alliance COVID-19 Resource Collection

April 06, 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 and with young people in mind. We have compiled a list of resources that can be helpful to young people, families, and those of you who work with and care deeply about young people and children.

Type: Resource

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Growing the Whole Child Movement: Post-convening brief

January 30, 2020

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campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

SELExchange

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 and more were the focus of an institute hosted by The Wallace Foundation and America’s Promise Alliance. Access the event’s PowerPoint.

Type: Resource

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Communications Playbook Case Study

October 03, 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, cognitive, & academic learning & the shared responsibility of home, school, & community in developing those skills.

Type: Resource

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

Building Systems of Integrated Student Support

April 08, 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.

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promises: Effective Education

SOURCE: Boston College Center for Optimized Student Support, Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens