Giving the Power back to the Community Programs
Out with the old...give the Youth a Voice, let them show themselves !Schools and Community's coming together to impower youth with using their voice around them.
Boards can be overpowering and not give power to the Youth for the path needing to be made.
What is this you say?........21st Century Community Learning Centers
List of after school programs that are under the 21st Century Community Learning in Rhode Island
Youth working along side adults...Adults being above youth
Hey Ashley! I like the style of your reflection/blog post to the texts we read. I do think 21st CCLC sites are what the program makes of it. I think any youth space has the potential to be fantastic like Baldridge describes at EE but that there are so many factors that go into like the one you mentioned about board control. 21st sites have great starting models but need great youth workers for it come to fruition.
ReplyDeleteYes to working alongside youth. I also liked how you mapped your readings.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your reflections Ashly and the way that you incorporated images and links. Your post brings up some questions for me:
ReplyDelete- I see a theme about the relationship between community orgs and schools, but I'm not sure what your perspective is here. Can you expand the writing to share more about the key issues for you/ in these readings about school-community org relationships?
- How does this connect to 21st CCLCs? Do you see these as a model for connection and professionalization? Do you have critiques? Questions?
- I love the final phrase and the way you crossed out the hierarchical framing of adults being over youth. How does this phrase tie back to school-community org relationships, 21st CCLCs or other insights from the readings?