BRIEFINGS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/WEBINARS Global Kids' Center for Global Leadership Presents Professional Development for Individuals Global Kids has twenty years' experience working with NYC public schools. We provide curriculum resources and training for teachers, administrators and youth workers, and we work directly with students in the classroom and after school. Trainings will be facilitated by Global Kids staff members who are highly skilled educators with extensive training and experience in international affairs, youth development, service learning, leadership development, interactive and experiential learning, violence and bias prevention, and youth-created digital media. All trainings are offered at $75 per person with a discounted rate of $50 each for two sessions or more. Trainings will take place from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at Global Kids' Center for Global Leadership, located at 137 East 25th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10010. We are also able to conduct group trainings at a site or at Global Kids' Center for Global Leadership. For more information or to register, please call: 212-226-0130 or e-mail pdtrainings@globalkids.org Youth Workers Making Youth Development Real Thursday, September 30 Participants will explore key components of youth development and enhance their communication and facilitation skills in order to create a safe and supportive environment for young people. Linking Curriculum and Service Wednesday, October 6 A service learning training which will provide educators with the conceptual structure they need to link service learning directly to curriculum content and standards. Creating a Safe Space I: Conflict Resolution Wednesday, October 13 This training will provide theoretical and practical methods for recognizing, analyzing, and responding creatively to conflict situations, as well as strategies for building communication, problem solving, peer negotiation, and team-building skills in the classroom or after school environment. Developing Global Citizens Thursday, October 21 (Election Day means no school...and a perfect chance to attend training!) This training will introduce educators to service learning methodology and philosophy, demonstrate strategies for incorporating service into the school or after school environment, and provide tools and resources to help schools and programs meet their service learning mandate.  Incorporating Digital Media into Your Curriculum Friday, November 12 A hands-on introduction to the educational potential of serious gaming, social media and virtual worlds, and how they foster community, creativity, collaboration, and civic engagement. Interactive Teaching Strategies Wednesday, November 17 Participants will explore core experiential learning techniques and popular education practices that educators can apply to differentiate instruction in their classroom, after school, or summer program and engage students with diverse learning styles. Games-Based Education Friday, December 3 In this training, educators will learn to use online games that address core literacy and content areas, and how to utilize free, web-based tools to support students in designing their own games. NEEDFUL THINGS  Gladys Carrión. Esq. Commissioner Volume 1, Issue 5 Monday September 23, 2010 *Funding Opportunities * Publications * Briefings/Workshops/Conferences/Webinars * Articles and Research *Educational Opportunities/Scholarships *Advocacy EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES/SCHOLARSHIPS/ NY Knicks Poetry Slam You are cordially invited to attend the NY Knicks College Fair and Slam Poetry Open Auditions on Monday, October 11, 2010 at the Roseland Ballroom. This event will be one of the largest and free colleges fairs in the Tri-State area, hosting over 75 colleges and universities, and will include live entertainment, college workshops, and an open poetry audition. We anticipate over 3,000 students attending the college fair. This year the Knicks Poetry Slam Program is giving away over $450,000 in college grants and scholarships for high school students, including three 4 year full tuition scholarships for seniors to the University of Wisconsin, Mercy College and Adelphi University. The NY Knicks are also partnering with the Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation to broaden our reach to all New York students, especially high school youth. The Knicks Poetry Slam Program began in 2003 and has since grown to reach more than 20,000 students annually through school site visits, a poetry open audition/college fair, online contests, workshops and Poetry Slams. With our ongoing partner Urban Word NYC, the award-winning youth literary arts organization, we will provide FREE ongoing writing programs, college prep courses, performances and scholarship opportunities to New York City students throughout the year. The College Fair FREE and is open to all high school students, and it is our hope that your school/organization will attend. If you would like literature (sent via postal) or a representative from the Knicks come speak to your students about this event, please contact Latoya Jackson via telephone at: 212-465-6610 or via email at: knickspoetryslam@thegarden.com to set up an appointment today! The Knicks organization is committed to providing college opportunities for high school students and we need your help to spread the word. It is with our hope that you join us on Monday, October 11th to reach as many students as possible. (Cont’ on back)

PUBLICATIONS FINDYOUTHINFO.GOV FindYouthInfo.gov is the U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information, and tools. New on the site: information, strategies, tools, and videos related to bullying; enhanced community mapping of federally supported youth programs; collaboration; links to communities of practice focused on transition age youth, youth violence, and youth workforce development. Bullying info: http://www.findyouthinfo.gov/topic_bullying.shtml Mapping youth services: http://www.findyouthinfo.gov/GeoProgramSearch.aspx Collaboration: http://www.findyouthinfo.gov/collaboration.shtml Communities of practice: http://www.findyouthinfo.gov/collaboration_how.shtml ARTICLE AND RESEARCH Fewer Than Half of African-American Males Graduate on Time, Report Finds The overall graduation rate for African-American males attending U.S. public schools during the 2007-08 school year was 47 percent, a new report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education finds. According to Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education (44 pages, PDF), the fourth Installment in the biennial report series, half the states in the country have graduation rates for African-American males below the national average. The report provides state-by-state data intended to illustrate which school districts are failing to provide the resources all students need for the opportunity to learn. In New York, the graduation rate for the state's regents diploma — which is required for a student to qualify for a high school diploma — is only 25 percent for African-American males, while in New York City, the district with the highest enrollment of African-American students, only 28 percent of African-American males graduated with a regent's diploma on time. According to the report, New Jersey is the only state with a significant African-American population (100,000 or more) that has a greater than 65 percent high school graduation rate for African-American males. 'Taken together, the numbers in the Schott Foundation for Public Education's report form a nightmarish picture — one that is all the more frightening for being both true and long-standing,' said Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, who wrote the foreword for the report. 'These boys are failing, but I believe that it is the responsibility of the adults around them to turn these trajectories around. All of us must ensure that we level the playing field for the hundreds of thousands of children who are at risk of continuing the cycle of generational poverty. The key to success is education.'“New Report 'Yes We Can' Shows America's Public Schools Fail Over Half the Nation's Black Male Students.” Schott Foundation for Public Education Press Release 8/17/10. ARTICLE AND RESEARCH Cont' GIRLS SHAPE THE FUTURE: EARLY PREDICTORS OF GIRLS' ADOLESCENT SEXUAL ACTIVITY Girls Inc.: This study of young adolescent girls, with relatively high proportions of African Americans and Hispanics and with a high proportion of girls who reported receiving free or reduced-price school lunches, found that being a girl of color or having limited family resources did not increase the likelihood of becoming involved in early sexual activity. Risk factors confirmed by the study included accepting attitudes toward sex and risk; prior substance abuse; and pressure from friends to have sex. Protective factors included positive relationships with the mother and high grades in reading. http://www.girlsinc.org/resources/girls-shape-the-future.html HOW OUT-OF-SCHOOL-TIME PROGRAM QUALITY IS RELATED TO ADOLESCENT OUTCOMES Child Trends: This new Child Trends research brief finds positive outcomes for adolescents in high-quality out-of-school time programs, but no significant differences between adolescents in low-quality programs and those not in a program at all. http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2010_08_02_RB_OSTProgramQuality.pdf Represent magazine is having an open house on Thursday, Sept. 23 for current and prospective writers If you know a young person age 14-21 who is in foster care (or used to be), please encourage them to stop by and join. Although teens may apply for Represent without attending the open house, this is a great chance for them to meet other young people and ask questions about our fall writing program, which starts in October. Have a Voice. Improve Your Writing. Write for Represent Magazine! Open House: Thursday, Sept 23rd, 4-6pm http://www..org/PDF/Represent-App-fall2008.pdf Open to all youth in care, ages 14-21. Current teen writers will talk about working on the magazine. Come learn about the magazine and how you can participate. Date: Thursday, September 23rd Time: 4 - 6pm Location: Represent offices at Youth Communication, 224 W. 29th St., 2nd fl. (betw. 7th and 8th Aves) Subway directions: #1 train to 28th St. or A,C,E,B,D,F,2,3 trains to 34th St. or N,R to 28th St. Refreshments and Metro card will be provided. >> See the Fall 2010 application, open house flyer and an FAQ sheet for teens about writing for Represent [pdf] http://www.youthcomm.org/PDF/Represent-Fall-Open-House-2010.pdf EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES CONT’