Schools And Community Programs Are Stronger Together

SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT

Schools and community programs are stronger together

Karen Pittman, renowned expert on youth development, will be a featured speaker at the 2022 Learning Forward Annual Conference on Dec. 6 in Nashville, Tennessee. Her Thought Leader session, “Learning is Social and Emotional and Inequitable,” will address how alignment between schools and out-of-school time providers can reduce inequity and optimize learning and the role professional learning can play in strengthening those linkages. Pittman co-founded the Forum for Youth Investment, where she was president and CEO until February 2021. She has held leadership positions at many youth development organizations and was a member of President Clinton’s Crime Prevention Council. She has written three books, dozens of articles, and a longstanding column for the youth development publication Youth Today. She is currently a partner at Knowledge

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References

Pittman, K. (2020, March 30). What happens when out-of-school time is all the time? The Forum for Youth Investment. forumfyi.org/blog/what-happens-when-out-of-school-time-is-all-the-time/

Pittman, K. (2022a, August 26). Out-of-school time programs add social and emotional instruction. Changing the Odds Remix. changingtheoddsremix.com/2022/08/26/youth-today-caught-and-taught/

Pittman, K. (2022b, August 29). Raising achievement or engaging students? We don’t have to choose. Changing the Odds Remix. changingtheoddsremix.com/publications/remix-roundup/2022/08/weekly-remix-round-up-829/