Development Without Limits
Resources For Youth Professionals
On Please Speak Freely, Eric Gurna, Executive Director of Development Without Limits interviews leaders in the fields of youth development and education to shed light on key issues and explore different perspectives. The idea is to get past the platitudes and institutional positions, and have honest, nuanced conversations about things that really matter to young people and communities. Examples of current and future Please Speak Freely guests are Alexis Menten of Asia Society, Earl Phalen of Reach Out and Read (and Founder of Summer Advantage and BELL), Dr. Pedro Noguera of New York University, Karen Pittman of the Forum for Youth Investment and Carla Sanger of LA’s BEST.
Podcast Episode #14 featuring:
Jennifer Davis
Co-Founder and President of the National Center on Time and Learning
Jennifer Davis leads a campaign to get educators and others to re-think how time is used in schools. In this episode, she describes the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) movement and responds to some of the concerns raised by people in the after school/youth development field.
"Why should there be a limit with regard to the number of students that can be served? Why can't it be that the schedule itself could be changed in order that all students have those opportunities versus just a subset of students as a part of an afterschool or summer program?"
- Jennifer Davis, regarding reforms to the 21st Century Community Learning Center program
Blog : Community Partners Are Key
written by: By Cathy Tisdale,
President and CEO of Camp Fire USA
"In our experience (and it would be echoed by other after school providers), children love the fact that their afterschool program is not school, is not graded and is a place where they don’t feel judged. Therefore, they actually come to love learning, trying new things and being with people totally unlike themselves. We don’t know if creating a mandatory program will engage more of these youth or discourage them even more." - Cathy Tisdale