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Youth Choice

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  • Featured Program Metrics
    • Arrival Logistics & Greetings
      • Case Study: YMCA Camp Ponkapoag (4th and 5th grade)
    • Level of Youth Participation
      • Case Study: Piers Park
    • Nature of Activity
      • Case Study: Crossroads for Kids (3rd through 8th grade)
      • Case Study: Steppingstone Foundation’s College Success Academy (5th, 6th, and 7th grade)
    • Opportunities for Leadership
      • Case Study: PIC with Freedom House (11th and 12th grade)
      • Case Study: Courageous Sailing (4th through 12th grade)
    • Schedule & Offering
      • Case Study: MIT Office of Engineering Outreach
    • Staff Build Relationships
      • Case Study: Hale Reservation (elementary school)
      • Case Study: PIC with Boston International (high school)
      • Case Study: Crossroads for Kids (3rd through 8th grade)
    • Staff Promote Engagement & Stimulate Thinking
      • Case Study: Steppingstone Foundation’s College Success Academy (5th, 6th, and 7th grade)
      • Case Study: Camp Harbor View (6th through 9th grade)
      • Case Study: MathPOWER (6th through 10th grade)
    • Supportive Social Environment
      • Case Study: Tenacity (Kindergarten-12th grade)
    • Youth Choice
      • Case Study: Project TEACH (9th through 12th grade)
      • Case Study: MathPower (6th through 10th grade)
    • Youth Feel Engaged
      • Case Study: Phillips Brooks House Association (elementary and middle school)
      • Case Study: Thompson Island (elementary and middle school)
  • Additional Program Metrics
    • Organization of Activity
    • Activities’ Transition Time
    • Staff Positively Guide Behavior
    • Youth Relations with Adults
    • Youth Relations with Peers
    • Space Adequacy
    • Overall Socio-Emotional Environment
    • Informal Time: General Staff Performance
    • Informal Time: Youth Engagement and Behavior
    • Youth Feel Challenged
    • Supportive Adults Present
    • Helps Youth Academically
    • Helps Youth Socially
  • Social-Emotional Skills
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    • Perserverance
    • Self-Regulation
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    • Introduction to Measurement
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    • Cityspan: A Database for Providers
      • Step 1: Creating Your Program Profile
      • Step 2: Recording Participant Information
      • Step 3: Inputting Program Schedule
      • Step 4: Enrolling Participants
      • Step 5: Tracking Attendance
      • Administering the SAYO-T
      • Managing Digital Badges
      • Reporting
      • Tracking Staff
      • Help Desk
    • PRISM
      • How to Read Your PRISM
      • General Information, Demographics, and Attendance
      • Program Management Practices
      • Skill Building Staff’s Perspective (SAYO-T)
      • Skill Building Student’s Perspective (HSA, HSA-R)
      • Suggestions for Comparing Data Across the PRISM
      • Apply Data Findings to Continuous Program Improvement
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      • Highlights from the 2016 Boston Summer Learning Community
      • Highlights from School Year 2015-2016: Advancing Quality Partnerships and BoSTEM
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      • Observer Certification
    • FAQs

In order to develop the skills necessary to navigate the challenges of school, college, and careers, young people need to experience opportunities for meaningful and authentic choice and autonomy. Summer programs can help support this process by allowing young people to suggest their own ideas for new activities and to choose how they spend time during the program.

Case Study: Project TEACH (9th through 12th grade)

The program works with 25 high school students from Boston Public Schools to provide academic enrichment and workforce development opportunities and enrichment.

Case Study: MathPower (6th through 10th grade)

MathPOWER is summer learning program that provides classes based on the material students will learn the next academic year.

Case Study: Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention (6th, 7th, and 8th grade)

The Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention (AIP)’s Summer Spot program at the Frederick Pilot Middle School uses field trips, peer leadership, mentorship by high schoolers, and academic enrichment activities, as well as psychosocial or social-emotional supports, to provide opportunities to develop new skills and meet new friends.

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