Youth Today, published by the Center for Sustainable Journalism, launched a new partnership in January with Knowledge to Power (KP) Catalysts, the engine behind Changing the Odds Remix, to change the odds that all youth and children will thrive.
The KP Catalysts team is collaborating with Youth Today’s editorial team to engage experts from across the allied youth fields, launch a field-facing advisory group, amplify Youth Today articles and columns, and build capacity for Youth Today as the allied youth fields’ key source of current field news.
Read our interview with Pittman, Changing the Odds Remix creative director and KP Catalysts partner:
Q&A: Karen Pittman on her next chapter and how the pandemic opened minds
Read Pittman’s article on her return to Youth Today as a monthly columnist as part of her commitment to devote her 70’s to advancing the allied youth fields:
One More Time: Let’s Make Youth Work a Field
READ "THE REMIX"
For more than three decades, Karen Pittman has charged all adults who work with and for young people to shift from singling out young people who somehow beat the odds to figuring out how we can change the odds for all young people by fundamentally shifting the way we do business. Changing the Odds Remix is her latest, and lasting, contribution to the allied youth fields.
Changing the Odds Remix elevates new ways of thinking, seeing, and acting on truths parents know and research confirms:
• Learning happens everywhere.
• Relationships and experiences drive development.
• All young people have potential.
• Opportunities are inequitable.
• Schools cannot do this alone.
By intentionally remixing ideas from the top thinkers in the allied youth fields — cross-time (past archives and present conversations), cross-topic, and cross-system — Changing the Odds Remix will help elevate new ways of thinking, seeing, and acting and illuminating the through across efforts to build equitable learning and development ecosystems.
Knowledge to Power (KP) Catalysts is the driving force behind Changing the Odds Remix. KP Catalysts increases the rate at which leaders transform Knowledge into Power to change the odds that all children and youth will thrive. The KP Catalysts team of action-focused thought leaders offers a wide range of services to amplify ideas, vitalize partnerships, and accelerate change. From one-on-one coaching to facilitating large-scale, cross-system collaboratives, they challenge organizations and initiatives across the learning and development ecosystem to be bold, inclusive, science-informed, and equity-focused in their work with and on behalf of young people.
