Youth Communication
Youth Communication provides resources for youth workers that help students gain literacy skills and strengthen their social-emotional competencies. We’ve produced true stories written by teens since 1980. We use these stories to develop lessons and curricula and train youth workers to use the stories to support social-emotional learning. Our stories are effective because youth find […]
Legal Outreach, Inc.
For over 30 years, Legal Outreach has offered legal and educational programs as tools for youth engagement and skill building. Legal Outreach?s Growing Academically Via Education in Law (GAVEL) program provides rigorous, urban-focused curricula that use the law to help students hone skills, such as decision-making, problem-solving, persuasive writing, critical thinking and analytic skills as […]
Building Beats
Building Beats provides after-school and in-school digital music production and DJ’ing workshops that teach entrepreneurial, leadership and life skills to youth. Our workshops consist of a minimal amount of resources so students are able to continue working outside of our classroom.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Through interactive tours of our historic tenement building and Lower East Side neighborhood, students step back in time to investigate themes of cultural identity, discrimination, and human rights and make personal connections to history. Our programs connect past and present through storytelling, interactive lessons, and primary source investigation. Programs are led by experienced educators and […]