What's New?
Classrooms for Community Change - Bay Area Teacher Cohort
In this cohort, 5-8 high school teachers will come together in the Fall to prepare for and collaborate on implementing youth-led action research curriculum and projects in their classrooms in the spring. Projects will focus on issues that impact students' lives, and will include comprehensive research process skill-building and action steps that aim to improve and transform their school or neighborhood communities.
This cohort is an opportunity for teachers to build with and support each other, and hopes to connect classrooms and students to processes of participatory research, community leadership development, and social justice work.
Youth Bill Of Rights
Central Valley Youth are contributing to the creation of a California Youth Bill Of Rights. Read more here.
Read All About It
Youth In Focus has a series of newsletters to bring you news about how we make a difference for the people, places, and issues you care about. Read the latest about our project work and where we're headed in moving the field of youth-led action research forward. Find out where alumni of our programs end up, why donors give to YIF, or how you can advance the role of youth in your organization or community. If you haven't already gotten your email copy, click here to get a PDF version of YIF's March Newsletter. Our next issue will highlight work in our Education Justice Initiative and is slated to be out in May.
One Of A Kind
Da Rainbow Clique (DRC) presented at the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) Network's Youth Empowerment Summit. A youth-led action research project of the Community Project at El Cerrito High School, DRC developed an interactive workshop to explore issues of race, sexuality, and GSAs on school campuses. One GSA staff members commented, "I don't know of any other group like this in Northern California." DRC's action research project focused on how discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth affects all youth on their school campus.
Teach The Teacher
Project WHAT!, a youth-led action research project of Community Works, presented at the Greater Bay Area Child Abuse Prevention Council Coalition's March workshop about children of incarcerated parents. Based on its research and using innovative theater techniques, Project WHAT! is using its action research project to develop a curriculum to help teachers and social workers better address the needs of youth with incarcerated parents or guardians. Project WHAT! stands for "We're Here And Talking: 2.4 Million of Us." Come participate! With the support of Youth Impacted by Parental Incarceration, Project WHAT! is leading a workshop on April 26th, from 6 to 8 p.m. at New College of California (780 Valencia @ 19th) in San Francisco. Go to the Teachers for Social Justice website for more information.
