Category: Youth Voice
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Joy, partnership and play create belonging and increase attendance
Entering our 30th year of elevating the importance of play and infusing high-quality recess into…
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Q&A with Karen Pittman, 2026 recipient of the NEA Foundation’s Outstanding Service to Public Education Award
Karen Pittman is editor-in-chief of Youth Today, a founding partner of Knowledge to Power Catalysts,…
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Look inside: What MCA taught us about gratitude, growth and growing up
“Look inside and you’ll seeWhen you’ve got so much to say it’s called gratitudeAnd that’s…
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Why agency, voice and coherence is the work: Supporting social, emotional and academic well-being and thriving in challenging times and contexts
A note from Karen Pittman, editor-in-chief and publisher:I’m delighted to report that the second episode in…
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The overlooked link between literacy, STEM and student success
For decades, schools across the country have invested heavily in literacy reform. New curricula, mandates…
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On program quality | Youth Today
This is the fourth piece in our series featuring the chapter authors of “Positive Youth Development:…
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Twice a refugee | Youth Today
I fled an arranged marriage to be LGBTQ in the U.S., but I wasn’t safe…
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Big Thought: The ecosystem intermediary behind Dallas City of Learning
In our January 26 column, From systems leadership to ecosystems stewardship: A next step for…
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Coaching, not correction: The shift youth-serving systems need to build real leaders
I’ve worked with teenagers for most of my adult life. In classrooms. At camps. In…
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When accommodations exist on paper but not in practice: How ACT testing fails students with disabilities
I was fully prepared to take the ACT by August of my senior year. I…