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All posts tagged "Karen Pittman"
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayEvery school a community school. Every community a learning community.
Community schools are one of the most effective, scalable strategies for addressing inequities.
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Handle with care
I continue to be impressed with the simplicity and power of Handle with Care, a partnership between law enforcement, schools and mental...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Caught and taught — Out-of-school time programs add social-emotional instruction
To understand how the current moment calls for more explicit, taught instruction in the out-of-school time space to complement this historically integrated...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Student Success + Youth Success = Field Success
I'm encouraged by recent signs that the Biden administration understands the importance of community-based organizations to the allied youth fields.
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Adolescents are a force for good
Adolescents are a force for good is one of the UCLA’s Center for the Developing Adolescent six principles of adolescent development. The...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Re-centering youth work across systems
I’ve been struck once again this month, while reading Youth Today, by how the stories and commentaries demonstrated the complexity of what...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Policies that erase Black, brown or LGBTQ youth are a crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on teens, accelerating the declines in youth mental health that were evident before the pandemic....
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Ensuring youth access to people, places and possibilities
Youth don’t grow up in programs or systems, they grow up in communities. The outreach staff who innovated their work with homeless...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: What it takes to get and keep youth in school
A story about Black elementary school children jailed for non-existent crimes caught my attention in October 2021 when it was first picked...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Bringing community educators into classrooms
In his December 3 Q&A with Brian Rinker, Michael Funk discusses California’s historic investment in afterschool and summer programs. Amidst the excitement...
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1.9KNewsQ&A: Karen Pittman on her next chapter and how the pandemic opened minds
Karen Pittman has been at the forefront of youth development for nearly 50 years, championing a whole-child approach to learning that goes...
