American Youth Policy Forum
For A National Scan Of NGOs Regarding Their Alignment With And Importance To Deeper Learning
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/4/2011
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Term3 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional development organization that provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on youth and education issues at the national, state, and local levels. With the assistance of independent philanthropic advisor, Jane Polin, AYPF will conduct a national environmental scan of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have the potential to inform and influence policy discussions, recommendations, and actions impacting the advancement of deeper learning. The scan will be focused especially on ensuring that the deeper learning agenda is developed to be nonpartisan, centrist, and viable and that the concerns and constituencies of the following sectors are understood: businesses/employers, education advocacy organizations, and a broad spectrum of politically-oriented reform advocates. The goals of the grant are to develop a greater knowledge base on the education policy organizations that will be influential in advancing deeper learning, to inform and provide greater definition to the role that AYPF can play--and improve the allocation of its resources--to advance deeper learning, and enhance AYPF's ability to collaborate with, educate, inform, and address the concerns of other education policy organizations and opinion leaders.
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 Legislative Tours of Deeper Learning Schools
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, the grant would give participants greater understanding of policies that can support and expand deeper learning.
for site visits to deeper learning schools
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.
for development of profiles of Deeper Learning Network schools
The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) 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 create a series of ten two-page profiles about each of the Deeper Learning Network school systems to inform national and state policymakers and the media how deeper learning impacts educational practice and student outcomes, providing increased economic opportunity and civic engagement for youth. The profiles will enable advocates to communicate with reformers and policymakers about how deeper learning looks in action, that it is viable at scale, and to suggest potential venues for site visits.
