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From A Nation At Risk: To A Nation At Hope

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 nation at risk is finally a nation at hope. Find out more and get involved.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: National Commision on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development

Edutopia - How Learning Happens Video Series

November 16, 2018

This video series, featuring Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of Learning Policy Institute, and Pamela Cantor, MD, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, pairs research insights with a variety of illustrative strategies from schools, all grounded in the science of human learning and development. 

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Edutopia

campaigns & initiatives: How Learning Happens

OUR WORK: A Framework for Accelerating Progress for Children and Youth in America

April 17, 2017

How can we take what’s been learned and accelerate progress for young people in America, especially for those young people who are most vulnerable? How can we create the conditions for success for more young people, more quickly? To answer these questions, America’s Promise reviewed research about what’s changed in the past 20 years in young people’s lives and in our understanding of youth development. We surveyed our network, spoke with young people, and interviewed more than 200 people representing nonprofits, corporations, foundations, research and policy entities, educational institutions…

Type: Resource

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Black/African-American, English Learners, Recommit2Kids

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Family Engagement, Re-engaging Youth, Youth Involvement

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

Relationships Come First: How Four Career Development and Workforce Readiness Programs Prepare Young People for Work and Life

December 15, 2016

What role do relationships play in fostering workforce development and career readiness among ‘risk-immersed’ youth?

Type: Resource

TAG: College and Career Readiness

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Youth Involvement, College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Adolescent Thriving: The Role of Sparks, Relationships, and Empowerment

December 18, 2015

Although most social science research on adolescence emphasizes risks and challenges, an emergent field of study focuses on adolescent thriving. This study extends this line of inquiry by examining the power of identifying and nurturing young people’s passions or interests (“sparks”), empowering them to make civic contributions (giving them “voice”), and providing the relationships and opportunities that reinforce and nourish thriving. 

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Thriving

SOURCE: Search Institute

How do out-of-school programs affect thriving?

November 25, 2015

Those who study youth development look to both external factors that affect youth (environment) and internal factors within the youth (personal attributes) that contribute to their positive growth.  Richard Lerner and his colleagues have also emphasized the importance of examining the interaction of person and environment to understand more completely how youth develop. 

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Expanded Learning Time, Mentoring, Thriving, Youth Involvement

SOURCE: Thrive Foundation for Youth

GradNation Community Summit Toolbox

February 03, 2015

GradNation Summit Conveners:  These resources will help you prepare to host a successful GradNation Community Summit. Please contact your summit manager with

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC)

November 09, 2014

The education, public health, and school health sectors have each called for greater alignment that includes, integration and collaboration between education leaders and health sectors to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. Public health and education serve the same children, often in the same settings. The Whole School Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model focuses on the child to align the common goals of both sectors to put into action a whole child approach to education.

Type: Resource

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Health and Wellness

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

The Role of National Service in Closing the Graduation Gap

September 04, 2014

Great progress has been made over the last decade to reach an 80 percent graduation rate, but for the one in five students still not graduating on time, more hard work is required to achieve the GradNation goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by 2020.  For that reason, America’s Promise Alliance presents this paper that illustrates how national service is making a positive impact on young people and closing the graduation gap – from early literacy through high school graduation and beyond. Emerging evidence, described in this white paper, tells us that national service works.

Type: Resource

promises: Opportunities to Help Others, Caring Adults

channels: Mentoring

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

A Teacher's Guide to Engaging a New Generation of Anti-Hunger Leaders

January 27, 2014

Published by YSA and Sodexo Foundation, this new resource highlights best-practice strategies of K-12 classroom teachers who are using a Semester of Service™ framework to engage their students in addressing childhood hunger. 

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Health and Wellness, Youth Involvement

SOURCE: Youth Service America