Newsletter Issue 17: Continuous Improvement, Learning Visits, #YouthVoice
Newsletter Issue 17 - July 2017
SSN and You
Your work with SSN is making a lasting impact on NYC students. Last academic year, over 40 innovations were tested, measured and shared. RSVP to the following events to 1) figure out how to make the most of the SSN community and 2) understand your data in comparison to the network.
Let's Get Started
Hosting a Learning Visit
Share what you do & learn from others by hosting a learning visit. Reach out to ali@ssn-nyc.org or use this sign up sheet to list a date and time for members to visit your organization or sign up to visit one!
#YouthVoice #SelfAdvocacy
What We're Reading
To Whom It May Concern: Teens Take Charge hosted a student-led event targeted at empowering youth to tell stories and create art about their experience in NYC schools.
Very Powerful Voices: The Influence of Youth Organizing on Educational Policy in Philadelphia: Read about the impact youth organizers are practicing self-advocacy.
Check out Involving Youth in Program Decision-Making: How Common and What Might it Do for Youth? to find out how giving youth a direct role in program decision-making has the potential to raise several SEL-related competencies and to increase students' motivation to engage in programming, especially among older students.
Visit NICO for more articles and resources.
Tell us what you think.
Respond to this email or reach out to sooah@ssn-nyc.org for more information about the events and/or to think through who from your team should be there.Don't see an opportunity you like? Respond to this email or reach out to sooah@ssn-nyc.org with any and all suggestions!
