Promising Practices Initiative

[Tony Streit]

Dear YouthLearn community:

One of the current efforts to build the field of youth development is the
Promising Practices in Afterschool (PPAS) initiative.  You may already be
familiar with this work, but if not, we wanted to bring it to your
attention.  The first national call for submissions is underway now, and
we're hoping that technology-infused, youth-driven learning programs will
be well-represented in the emerging collection of promising practices.

YouthLearn will be helping to disseminate promising practices identified
through this project, which is based at AED and funded by the Mott
Foundation.  If you decide to make a submission, we ask that you enter
"YouthLearn" in the field for "Source of Information about PPAS" so that we
can learn about your work and glean ideas to share with the YouthLearn
community.  We hope in the coming months to be featuring chosen practices
via our website, newsletter, and discussion list, so that we all might
benefit from the innovation of individual practitioners.  See further
details below and feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Many thanks,

Tony

Tony Streit
Director, The YouthLearn Initiative
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
617.618.2778  Fax 617.332.4318
www.youthlearn.org
tstreit at edc.org
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The AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Research (the Center) in
Washington, D.C. is pleased to announce the first national call for
promising practices in afterschool.  The Center is looking for promising
practices in any one of seven component areas:

--Community & Family Involvement
--Programming
--Management & Administration
--Staffing & Training
--Financing
--Research, Evaluation, & Knowledge Base
--Policy & Advocacy

The Center is collecting practices as part of the Promising Practices in
Afterschool (PPAS) System funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
For more information, please visit http://www.afterschool.org and click on
"Submitting Practices."  You may also send an e-mail to PPAS at aed.org with
any questions or call the Center at 202-884-8267.

Thank you and please feel free to pass this e-mail along to your colleagues
and friends.

Sincerely,

Suzanne Le Menestrel, Ph.D.
PPAS System Project Director
AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Research

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