Elevating
Youth Voice
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About
Youth
Fellowship
Playbook
Access tools that educators, facilitators and practitioners can use to launch Youth Advisory Groups, where the young people are supported, cared for, and empowered to share their stories and thrive as co-designers.
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Why Co-design
Co-designing
with Youth
Co-designing with youth from diverse backgrounds, that have unique perspectives on challenges in education is critical for anyone seeking to make education more equitable and inclusive. Learn alongside our future leaders as you re-design a product, craft a strategy or seek to understand how to better serve youth.
Explore the Playbook
This guide leads you step by step through a transformative journey of collaboration with youth. This comprehensive playbook is designed to navigate educators, designers, and policymakers through distinct phases, ensuring a holistic approach to co-design.
Program Phases
Discovery
Recruitment
Session Planning
Building Relationships
Implementation
Evaluation Discovery
Determine your purpose and objectives.
Before launching a Youth Advisory group, you need to map out where you are going. The Discovery Phase is when you determine your purpose and objectives and name the learning arc.
RecruitmentPlan for outreach, recruitment and student prep.
You have mapped out what you want to learn and are feeling excited and hopeful!
Session Planning
It’s time to map out your sessions!
Co-design experiences work best when you have a well-thought plan in place. In the Session-Planning phase, you will match your hopes and goals to the experience by setting an agenda, designing the flow and getting ready to lead the youth!
Building RelationshipsBuild community and positive relationships.
In this Phase, we give you tips, tricks and strategies for how to build meaningful relationships with youth. Check out multiple videos and ideas for ways to engage young people as you co-design with them.
Implementation
Let’s get this show on the road! It’s time toengage!
Your planning is done, you’ve sent messages, calendar invites, you have your outcomes and you are ready to goooo!
This Phase just includes some additional ideas for running your sessions and your design sprint overall.
Evaluation Look at your objectives and gather insights.
Your sprint or focus groups are complete and now it’s time to reflect. Go back to your session planning documents and look at your objectives. What questions did you ask and what insights did you hope to gather?
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Overview
Learn from
Experts
We empower educators to shape the future of learning by helping you engage with youth. Meet the dedicated individuals who comprise our dynamic team, committed to providing exceptional content and support.
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Toolkit
Youth Fellowship Toolkit
Dive into facilitation guides that streamline your efforts and educational videos that amplify your impact. Equip yourself with everything you need to implement and elevate your Youth Fellowship
Discovery
Recruitment
Session Planning
Building Relationships
Implementation
Evaluation