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June 27, 2007Strong Teens, Strong Neighborhoods |
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Public/Private Ventures is field-testing a new curriculum---Strong Teens, Strong Neighborhoods---designed to increase reading and writing ability during summer hours. As the name of the program indicates, the curriculum has a community focus; it was created in partnership with Youth Communication, a nonprofit journalism training program in New York City that publishes magazines and books written by and for teens. During the course of the summer, youth will be engaged in creating their own articles, to be compiled in a book, magazine, newsletter or website. By the end of the program, each student will have completed one article that will be included in a group anthology, which may be shared at a culminating event to celebrate their success. Strong Teens, Strong Neighborhoods will be implemented in two youth serving agencies in New York City---Harlem RBI and Groundwork---and will be used in 10 classrooms, reaching 200 7th-9th graders. Through a grant from the Taconic Foundation, P/PV is collaborating with Johns Hopkins Center for Summer Learning to provide technical assistance for this project to ensure that current best practices in summer learning are reflected in programming, with the goal of eventual replication and dissemination of the curriculum in additional summer programs in future years. This work is made possible by the generous support of the Altman Foundation, the Clark Foundation and The Pinkerton Foundation.
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