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Information about the Academic Youth Development Program
Research shows that efforts to improve academic outcomes must address both students and the culture of their learning environment. It also shows that relatively modest interventions can have a powerful, positive effect. Read more.
Academic Youth Development Awareness Site
This site provides an overview of the AYD program, core concepts, supportive research, and preliminary research findings. It includes video clips of AYD students engaged in the program to help illustrate the experience of AYD.
Resources for Current Partners
If you are a current partner click here to access important tools for your AYD program implementation. Materials in this section include:
- 2012 AYD implementation guide
- Electronic resources for generating awareness and recruiting students
If you are a current partner and need access to this portion of the website, please call Agile Mind School Support at 866-284-4655, Option 1.
Research
Research about Academic Youth Development
- Assessing Change in Student Beliefs in the Academic Youth Development Program (pdf 215kb; data from 2008 to 2009, presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, April 2011)
- Program and Research Update on AYD, November 2011 (pdf 1.5mb)
- Summary of Results from the 2008 Evaluation Conducted on AYD (pdf 116kb)
Academic research that informs AYD
The reference list includes 15 citations of academic research informing Academic Youth Development. The annotated bibliography provides short descriptions for 7 of the articles cited in the reference list.
- Reference list (pdf 100kb)
- Annotated bibliography (pdf 144kb)
- Learning and the Adolescent Mind: This site shares with parents and educators the most compelling knowledge about student learning and success, through the ideas and the research of the most respected leaders and emerging thinkers in the fields of psychology and adolescent education.