Youth Today
All posts tagged "When Youth Thrive We All Thrive"
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370OpinionExploring the trust gap: An open invitation
While we always ask youth to trust adults, young people must be recognized for their abilities and have that trust returned with...
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422OpinionNo youth thrives alone
The Thriving Youth Knowledge Exchange podcast discusses how to rebuild well-being, groundedness and agency to hold youth as they learn to hold...
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1.2KOpinionYoung people aren’t giving up — they’re losing trust
The results of the latest Harvard Youth Poll display the systematic erosion of the trust in society needed to create conditions for...
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1.2KOpinionWhat kind of environments help young people become fully human?
Thriving emerges from developmental environments and relationships that help young people make meaning.
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1.8KOpinionNearly 200 student stories reveal what AI can’t replace: Relationships
Students are making it clear that AI cannot replace a human developmental relationship.
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2.1KOpinionEvery Connection Optimized: Four accelerators for activating learning ECOsystems where all youth thrive
A new blueprint identifies four accelerators crucial to constructing learning ecosystems and a workforce dedicated to thriving youth and families.
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2.0KOpinionWe keep asking young people to trust us. But how much do we really trust them?
Across the allied youth fields, youth are often asked to contribute but rarely allowed to shape outcomes.
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1.7KOpinionFive shifts that would change everything
A podcast discusses five concrete changes that can be made in any youth development setting.
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1.5KOpinionWhat John King’s teachers were actually doing
Helping youth thrive is about designing learning environments that prioritize consistency, challenge, and agency.
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2.5KFrom the FieldCivic skills for 20 million young people: A Q&A with Rajiv Vinnakota
Karen Pittman speaks with Rajiv Vinnakota about cultivating civic skills that develop effective citizens.
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2.7KFrom the FieldQ&A with Karen Pittman, 2026 recipient of the NEA Foundation’s Outstanding Service to Public Education Award
Youth Today's Karen Pittman, often referred to as the godmother of positive youth development, received the award on February 13.
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1.6KOpinionWhy agency, voice and coherence is the work: Supporting social, emotional and academic well-being and thriving in challenging times and contexts
From a developmental perspective, coherence is not something young people are told they are part of; it is something they feel.
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1.6KOpinionBig Thought: The ecosystem intermediary behind Dallas City of Learning
Big Thought brings arts education into the community and tackles other opportunity gaps.
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1.7KOpinionFrom systems leadership to ecosystems stewardship: A next step for OST intermediaries?
The benefits of comprehensive learning ecosystems are vast, but a vital part of maintaining and stewarding them will fall on OST programs/intermediaries.
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1.5KOpinionAn invitation to learn, reflect and act together for equity-centered thriving
A new podcast features foundational thinkers, exemplary youth practitioners and policy leaders discussing what it takes to support equity-centered thriving.
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2.5KOpinionFrom chronic absence to chosen presence: The case for new measures, especially for high schoolers
Looking at what motivates students to attend when they don’t have to could be the secret to helping communities reduce chronic absenteeism.
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6.3KOpinionWhy unconstrained kids need unconstrained ecosystems
Understanding developmental pathways of constrained and unconstrained skills helps realize the importance of learning ecosystems.
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Six reasons to read ‘Teen-Centered Civics for Human Thriving’ today
History Co:Lab recently released the clearest and most complete explanation of the inseparability of youth and community thriving I have ever read.
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4.4KFrom the FieldQ&A with Michaela Leslie-Rule on “How We See Us”
Katherine Plog Martinez talks with Leslie-Rule about writing “How We See Us”.
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2.6KOpinionIs the youth development field confident enough about its contributions to learning to disrupt K-12 education?
We must recognize the youth development and OST fields as complementary systems that are too important to ignore and essential.
