American Youth Policy Forum
For Site Visits To Deeper Learning Schools
-
Amount$14,400
-
Program
-
Date Awarded6/21/2012
-
Term18.0 Months
-
Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The American Youth Policy Forum provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on youth and education issues at the national, state, and local levels. It plans to organize and conduct three study tours to deeper learning schools to inform national and state policymakers and the media about this educational practice and how it can increase economic opportunity and civic engagement for youth. Through this exposure, this grant would give participants greater understanding of the policies needed to support and expand deeper learning. This small supplemental grant to our award 2011-6982 will allow AYPF staff to conduct scouting visits to ensure optimal site selection--feedback from prior study tours has indicated that vetting a site solely via phone discussions and consideration of the school's reputation within the Deeper Learning Network is not sufficient.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.aypf.org
Address
1200 18th St. NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The American Youth Policy Forum is a nonpartisan organization that provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on education, youth, and workforce policy at the national, state, and local levels. It has deep, broad expertise in the myriad issues impacting youth and will continue working to improve policies and practices that impact underserved youth aged 14 through 25.
for support of an evaluation of deeper learning study tours
The nonpartisan American Youth Policy Forum gathers policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to frame issues, inform policy, and cultivate conversations about improving education and young people’s lives. The forum will engage an independent research firm to evaluate a longstanding program in which it provides tours of deeper learning-oriented schools for policymakers, staff, and other influential reformers. Engaging leaders through firsthand, "in-action" experiences of deeper learning is vital to increasing their attention, capacity, and commitment to expanding the scale of the movement.
for legislative tours of deeper learning schools
The nonpartisan American Youth Policy Forum brings policymakers, practitioners, and researchers together to frame issues, inform policy, and cultivate conversations about improving education and young people’s lives. The forum will organize and conduct three study tours of schools to educate state and national policymakers about how deeper learning better prepares high school students for success in college, careers, and civic life. These tours, and their associated preparatory analysis and follow-up, help build awareness of the policy and practice reforms necessary to deliver deeper learning and create champions for the movement.
