Education

This is a description of the workshop taught at the 2009 YouthBuild Transformation Institute in Chicago.

YouthBuild Providence increases educational attainment combines careful selection with enriched educational environment

Youthbuild Innovations is published by Youthbuild USA under contract with the Office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). YouthBuild Innovations is intended to broaden the benefits of the HUD Youthbuild national training conferences. The newsletter highlights creative and effective ideas that have emerged directly from conference activities and discussions among YouthBuild practitioners.

Highlights YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School.

Youthbuild Innovations is published by Youthbuild USA under contract with the Office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). YouthBuild Innovations is intended to broaden the benefits of the HUD Youthbuild national training conferences. The newsletter highlights creative and effective ideas that have emerged directly from conference activities and discussions among YouthBuild practitioners.

Articles include Starting a YouthBuild Charter School: Motivations and Considerations, Building a Successful Charter School, the Business Side of Running a Charter School, YouthBuild USA's Role in the Charter School Movement, Charter School Funding Resources, and the National Learning Network.

The curriculum is designed specifically to address the needs and attitudes of low-income youth, including alienation from politics and politicians; the legal status of former felons; and issues affecting poor people such as welfare policies, civil rights policies, and campaign finance reform. Activities ask teachers to start with the students' experiences, feelings, knowledge, and concerns. The curriculum is conveniently put into three-ring binders for easy photocopying of activities and handouts, and organized so that teachers may pick and choose sections to be used in their classroom as is appropriate; the entire curriculum need not be used in full. It includes six Appendices including Alignments with National Social Studies Standards.

Written by YouthBuild USA under contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, these handbooks are designed to help people run effective YouthBuild programs in their communities. They include the HUD YouthBuild Program Manual, Construction Training at a YouthBuild Program, Leadership Development at a YouthBuild Program, Counseling at a YouthBuild Program, Education at a YouthBuild Program, and Opportunities for Graduates of a YouthBuild Program.

This speech restates the basics of the Youthbuild program, revisiting some of YouthBuild's history, discusses what has been learned so far and the things that have made YouthBuild a uniquely comprehensive and successful program: housing development, leadership development, job training and placement, personal counseling, and the core of YouthBuild qualities that have made YouthBuild successful.

Working Hands, Working Minds is a construction training curriculum developed by YouthBuild USA with funding from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The curriculum is designed to facilitate academic learning in an applied context. Essential reading, writing, and math skills are taught in an introduction to the construction trades. Through activities, community research projects, workplace exploration, group projects, role-plays and games, students are introduced to key construction-related skills and concepts. Working Hands, Working Minds is designed to be used collaboratively by classroom and vocational teachers to demonstrate the interrelationship between construction and academics.