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Explore this collection of tools, reports, guides and other materials selected from across the expertise of the Ready by 21 National Partnership. You can search for specific resources using the filters on the left side or using the drop down menus below.
Webinar
January 30, 2012
Healthy behavior, staying in school, problem-solving skills - these are among the outcomes we all want to see in our young people. It is always encouraging to be able to point to a new mentoring initiative, a great afterschool program or a really innovative school, but to achieve community- and state-wide impact, you need to do something bigger.
Tagged in: City, Middle School Age, Bolder Actions, Secondary School Age, State, Non‐profit/Foundation, Webinar
Webinar
January 30, 2012
To make good decisions, leaders need complete data from all the settings and systems where young people spend their time. They need information about youths’ physical and mental health, afterschool activities, employment and family structure, and more. Better data helps leaders use their resources more efficiently and effectively.
Tagged in: City, Better Data and Decisions, County, Education (K-12), Middle School Age, Collect complete data about youth outcomes, community supports and leadership actions, Webinar
Webinar
January 30, 2012
Leaders generate public demand, support and innovative ideas when they have regular mechanisms for seeking youth and family input and support and have developed a process for maintaining youth and family influence on policy decisions, philanthropy, practice and entrepreneurship.
Tagged in: Neighborhood, City, Middle School Age, Bolder Actions, Secondary School Age, State, Older Youth, Youth and Families, Webinar, Engage youth, families and community members in solutions
Policy Paper
January 11, 2012
To have a collective impact on child and youth outcomes, leaders must develop and implement a broad, long-term child and youth strategy, and be accountable for results. This can be a challenge. Policies often require the creation of strategic plans that are organized around a single, narrow topic. Instead of working toward collective impact, policy leaders end up generating separate sets of goals and plans, which fragment their efforts. This guide provides a set of strategies and recommendations to ensure that new child and youth policies align with existing efforts in order to create a seamless system of supports.
Tagged in: Advocacy, Bigger Goals, Government/Policy, National, Policy Paper, Align policies and resources
Webinar
December 19, 2011
Materials and a webinar about the impact of expanding learning time on schools and youth-serving organizations.
Tagged in: Bigger Goals, Engage key stakeholders in setting priorities and solving problems, Government/Policy, National, Webinar
Issue Brief
November 29, 2011
Balancing work and school can hinder a young person’s success in higher education. However, the opposite can also be true: Good jobs facilitate student persistence and completion. So what does it look like when working works for students? That’s what we need to understand in order to transform employment opportunities into drivers of student success.
Tagged in: Bolder Actions, Education (Post-Secondary), Secondary School Age, Issue Brief, Older Youth, Engage youth, families and community members in solutions
Report
November 17, 2011
Should young people be considered actors in school change, or simply the recipients of changed schools? Growing evidence and our own experience in the field suggest the former. Youth-led efforts to create change in schools, districts and education policy are on the rise. Youth Organizing for Educational Change features brief case studies of seven youth organizing efforts across the United states that we hope will inform, instruct and inspire.
Tagged in: Report, Bolder Actions, Secondary School Age, National, Engage youth, families and community members in solutions
October 31, 2011
This worksheet will help you think through your community's efforts using the Ready by 21 Building Blocks of Effective Change. This will give you a sense of where you are doing well and where you can build your capacity to achieve collective impact.
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Webinar
October 26, 2011
Partnerships and collaborations can take many forms. Whatever the scale of the partnership, effective partnerships are built on clear agreements about the scope of work to be done, the capacity needed to do the work and the mandate or authority in place to ensure that the work is done thoroughly and well.
Tagged in: Advocacy, Broader Partnerships, Build an overarching leadership council, Align and strengthen coalitions, commissions and intermediaries, Business, City, Education (K-12), Engage key stakeholders in setting priorities and solving problems, Education (Post-Secondary), State, Government/Policy, Non‐profit/Foundation, Youth and Families, Webinar
Guide
October 18, 2011
This toolkit is designed to assist business and local leaders in developing successful, sustainable partnerships to ensure that more young people in their communities have the highest-quality education and supports they need to be successful today, and as the workforce we will depend on tomorrow.
Tagged in: Broader Partnerships, Business, City, Engage key stakeholders in setting priorities and solving problems, Guide, Define supports that the full community must provide, Regional