https://www.youtube.com/embed/1xdQBu9HNgw Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar on Youth-Centered Civics Initiatives with Afterschool Alliance and the Kentucky Student Voice Team! We hope that you are as… Read More »Youth-Centered Civics Initiatives: Webinar Follow Up
The Institute for Citizens & Scholars (C&S) is fundamentally rethinking how we prepare young people to be productive lifelong citizens. To do so, we must… Read More »Evaluation: Youth-Centered Civics Initiatives Strengthen Communities
Zoe Parker This week our focus of learning in the fellowship was to teach students about how COVID was specifically affecting the Houston community. We… Read More »COVID and Houston
Zoe Parker For the fellowship our focus of learning this week was power. We did a power flow chart activity with Uyiosa. A power flow… Read More »Power
Zoe Parker This week for the fellowship team our learning objective was interviewing. We discussed the importance of asking open ended questions, how to prepare… Read More »Preparing fellows for interviewing
Shift Press fellows are receiving Chromebooks the City of Houston loaned us! This is making fellowship activities, like drafting pieces and joining Zoom workshops, much… Read More »Updates from Houston: more editors, Chromebooks from the City and our first newsroom day!
The Institute of Engagement, a youth-created and youth-run civic action organization, is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and building community among youth through its youth-produced… Read More »Community Conversations and Shift Press Journalism Fellows
The Civic Spring Project was featured on MSNBC in August. WW President Rajiv Vinnakota and Civic Spring Project youth grantee Emanuelle Sippy were interviewed by… Read More »Civic Spring Featured on MSNBC
The COVID-19 crisis exposes and exacerbates pre-existing inequities in our education system that aren’t being reported enough. Through a mixed methods student-led research approach, we… Read More »Learning to present data and working on inter-generational teams
Through a mix of art, research, policy briefs, advocacy training, personal narrative writing, videography, and photography, Newark youth will grapple with the effects of COVID-19… Read More »Gem Project virtual museum live; ALI conducts key interviews