Defense of Learning: A Community of Practice Model to Advance Equity, Access, and Social Justice in Sacramento CUSD
Sacramento City Unified School District’s (SCUSD) college and career readiness initiatives, as cited in the 2016-2021 Strategic Plan, only equip students with half of the skills and requirements necessary for graduates to succeed in their post-secondary options (Conley, 2012). Namely, SCUSD fails to assess critical soft skills, such as perseverance, growth mindsets, goal-setting, collaboration, etc.,…
Urban Planning Projects Can Foster Team Building, New Worldviews
Teaching this subject has moved from reading textbooks to students designing their own potential spaces — which experts say promotes key life skills.
SF Estuary News: A Tricky Ballet
How can we educate our families and community about the impacts of sea level rise on Bayview and San Francisco?
Students Partner With Facebook to Build Affordable Housing
High school students took a plan for housing for low income families that they took to Facebook and got donations to create this project.
Estudiantes hispanos crean solución para viviendas asequibles en la Bahía
Students take a plan for housing for low income families to Facebook, and get funding for it. In Spanish.
Bay Area students pitched housing solution to Facebook, social media leader listened
High school students took a plan for housing for low income families that they took to Facebook and got donations to create this project.
These students had a housing idea. Facebook listened. Now, it’s becoming reality
High school students took a plan for housing for low income families that they took to Facebook and got donations to create this project.
High Schoolers’ Big Idea to Mend Housing Crisis Gets Big Corporate Backing
A million-dollar pilot project is aiming to take a bite out the Bay Area’s housing crisis by making accessory dwelling units more affordable. KCBS Radio reporter Keith Menconi says much of the funding is coming from Facebook, but the idea for the plan was cooked up by low-income youth.
Close to Home: 4th graders can make a difference on energy, climate change
Fourth Graders study energy and invited UC Berkeley and public transportation experts from the program called Y-PLAN (Youth-Plan Learn Act Now) to help the build a model of Santa Rosa, and understand the environment better so they could think about the future of Santa Rosa.
Local students’ research, experiences to inform Facebook-funded housing study
In an emotional presentation, four local high school students recently shared their experiences of the housing crisis with the Menlo Park City Council
Math, history and … the housing crisis? Subject lands in Bay Area schools
The Mercury News takes a look at all of the work that Y-PLAN Students are doing in the Bay Area to help people gain more access to affordable housing
How to make the world a better place? Start with exercise bikes, for one
Article in the San Francisco Chronicle from April 25, 2019 highlighting a daylong Y-PLAN conference at UC Berkeley.
Y-Plan Ends With A-Z Guide From Youth In Improving S.F. Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area students in the upper echelons of creative thinking put a new spin on “kids will say and do the darndest things” as the brightest stars took to the mastermind campus of U.C. Berkeley for the 2019 Y-PLAN Policy Summit: Planning a More Inclusive and Resilient Region.
Student Ideas for a Greener, Safer Life
Article in the San Francisco Chronicle from April 26, 2019 highlighting a daylong Y-PLAN conference at UC Berkeley.
