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Youth Voice: How Small Steps Can Lead to Positive, Healthy Change

August 22, 2018

My main goal in life is to make my generation better and healthier. And for change to happen, we young people have to voice our opinions and make ourselves heard.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Healthy Schools, Youth Voice, Rural

promises: A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Every School Healthy

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

Advice about how to raise the high school graduation rate — from students themselves

July 24, 2018

If you want to know what young people need to succeed, it turns out you should just ask them. They’ll tell you. And they’ll make it clear that neither miracles nor miracle workers are required to help more students graduate from high school and be prepared for the future.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Five Youth Quotes on What It’s Like to Be Suspended or Expelled

July 12, 2018

“All you got to do is to get suspended one time and you’re labeled. I see it, like they follow the same kids around, like everybody knows, ‘Hey, those are the bad kid.’”

Type: News

TAG: Youth Voice, School Discipline, Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, Every School Healthy

Youth Leadership Application Now Open!

June 28, 2018

Outgoing board member Malcolm Davis recently made an important point about youth leadership: “My voice is not only valid when I sing the praises of the board. It’s valid when I speak against it and disagree with something.” We couldn’t agree more.

Type: News

TAG: Youth Voice

promises: Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: National Alliance

10 Tips for Graduating High School Seniors

June 13, 2018

As students across the country have graduated from high school, we know that the transition into the “real world” can be a challenge. Here are 10 tips that will help make the transition a little easier.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Voice

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

In Wake of School Shooting, Students and Advocates Say Armed Guards Are Not the Answer

June 13, 2018

Twenty-three states have moved to pass legislation to increase the number of law enforcement officers in schools. But at a recent listening session on school safety, young people explained why this is a bad idea.

Type: News

TAG: Safe Schools, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Youth Voice

promises: Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Youth Voice: How Limited Representation of Black Men Almost Limited My Life

May 31, 2018

To make matters worse, coaches and peers encouraged me to continue playing sports because it could pay for my education. So I spent countless hours and days training and practicing in different sports, hoping to land an athletic scholarship…which took away from any participation in extracurricular activities and volunteering experience that aligns with my current career aspirations.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Voice, Black/African-American, School Discipline, Using Data, College Gap

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: School Climate, Greater Stark County Urban League

Youth Speak Out at the Atlantic Education Summit

May 21, 2018

“I’ve always thought that we need to prepare our students for the world, but I’m learning so quickly that we need to prepare the world for our students,” said Christina Cody, a science teacher and founder of the youth health initiative FIT2gether, at the recent Atlantic Education Summit.

Type: News

TAG: Safe Schools, Healthy Schools, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League, School Climate

A Powerful Generation

April 04, 2018

Though students at Thurgood Marshall Academy see the recent March for Our Lives rally as a symbolic moment, they know that long-term change takes time. After all, their school gets its name from the man who helped make school segregation illegal and challenged the separate but equal doctrine on which it stood for more than half a century.

Type: News

TAG: Youth Voice, Safe Schools, Healthy Schools

promises: Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Every School Healthy

Action Platform: School Climate, Greater Stark County Urban League