Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children's Learning and Health

Based on a literature review and interviews with digital learning experts, explores how digital games can foster skills and knowledge for better academic performance and health. Makes recommendations for government research, partnerships, and media

CS for What? Diverse Visions of Computer Science Education in Practice

CS Visions highlights the importance of core values when it comes to computer science education. Understanding different reasons for teaching computer science isn’t just important so that we can get other people to care about CS, they should also shape what computer science education efforts look like - who gets opportunities to learn, what kinds of things get taught and in what ways. Our values should be expressed in our practice

Internal Pathways: “Leveling Up” Youth within an Informal Learning Organization

Spencer Foundation; New York Community Trust; Capital On

Linking Youth to Professional Worlds through Informal Digital Learning Programs

In this brief, we talk about how informal learning organizations can build youth’s professional social capital – helping them develop relationships to people and institutions that they can learn from and leverage down the line as they explore their professional pathways.Spencer Foundation; New York Community Trust; Capital On

Finding “Fit” When Connecting Youth to Future Learning Opportunities

A key aspect of brokering, or linking youth to future learning opportunities, is knowing whether an opportunity will be a “good fit.” This brief discusses the issue of fit and offers strategies to help a learning broker evaluate opportunities for youth.Spencer Foundation; New York Community Trust; Capital On

How Can Out-of-School Organizations Use Brokering to Support Youth Interest-Driven Learning Pathways?

What is brokering, and why is it an important practice when it comes to supporting learning pathways? This brief introduces the idea of brokering as a practice supporting connections to learning opportunities, offers a conceptual model of factors affecting brokering, and gives an overview of potential strategies for integrating brokering into out-of-school programming.Spencer Foundation; New York Community Trust; Capital On

Capstone as Stepping Stone: Leveraging End-of-Program Events for Pathway- Building

This brief offers guidance on ways that educators may leverage end-of-project capstone events as not only ones of celebration and accomplishment, but also as important sites for brokering — and thus further support youth pathways of learning and identity-building.Spencer Foundation; New York Community Trust; Capital On

Brokering Youth Pathways: A toolkit for connecting youth to future opportunity

Spencer Foundatio

Brokering to Disrupt Power: How to Leverage Brokering Practices to Support Equity Outcomes

Brokers can play crucial roles in identifying, making visible, and breaking down power structures for youth. In this brief, we discuss how brokers may directly contribute to breaking down or sustaining power inequalities in access and opportunity.Spencer Foundation; New York Community Trust; Capital On

An Equity-Orientation to Vetting Early Work- Placement Sites in Creative & Technology Industries

It’s important for informal learning organizations that engage in internship placements to consider how these early work settings are identified and vetted so that underrepresented youth are more likely to have positive experiences. This brief offers some strategies and a framework to support the process.Spencer Foundation; New York Community Trust; Capital On