This workshop highlights the importance of assertiveness, inviting participants to redefine what youth voice and power look and feel like; to learn strategies that build youth agency; and to determine how to share more programmatic power with youth.

 

Workshop Objectives

In this session, you’ll learn to:

• Define assertiveness and understand how it benefits youth in academic and life success

• Discuss how different strategies lead to greater assertiveness

• Adapt their own content to include more opportunities for real-world problem solving, decision-making, and relevance

At PEAR, we believe that summer programs can meet young people’s learning and social needs in powerful ways when quality is centered. Understanding one’s programmatic strengths and the strengths of their youth and communities can lead to life-changing experiences for young people that shape the leaders they will become.

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Watch the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) and PEAR's interactive roundtable discussion exploring:

• Why program quality matters

• What program quality can look like across the diversity of summer programs

• How summer programs can adopt systems of continuous improvement