Brokering Youth Pathways: A toolkit for connecting youth to future opportunity

January 1st, 2016 - July 31st, 2018 | PROJECT

Brokering Youth Pathways was created to share tools and techniques around the youth development practice of “brokering” or connecting youth to future learning opportunities and resources.

This toolkit shares ways in which various out-of-school educators and professionals have approached the challenge of brokering. It provides a framework, practice briefs and reports that focus on a particular issue or challenge and provide concrete examples, as well as illustrate how project partners partners worked through designing new brokering routines in partnership with a research team.

Project Website(s)

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Project Products

Brokering Youth Pathways Toolkit
Not just a blip in someone’s life: integrating brokering practices into out-of-school programming as a means of supporting and expanding youth futures
“He saw I had a loving for it”: Youth Interest Signaling as a Means of Generating Social Support in Technology Pathways
Keep Making: A Design Case Study on Supporting Kids to Geek Out on Their Own Time

Team Members

Kylie Peppler, Principal Investigator, UC-Irvine
Christopher Hoadley, Co-Principal Investigator, New York University
Rafi Santo, Project Manager, Indiana University
Dixie Ching, Project Manager, New York University

Funders

Funding Source: Private Foundation
Funding Program: Spencer Foundation - Research-Practice Partnerships
Funding Amount: $369,777.00

Funding Source: Private Foundation
Funding Program: Capital One - Investing for Good
Funding Amount: $25,000.00

Tags

Audience: Educators | Teachers | Evaluators | Learning Researchers | Museum | ISE Professionals | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Making and Tinkering Programs | Professional Development | Conferences | Networks | Professional Development and Workshops | Public Programs | Resource Centers and Networks