August 2014
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Featured in this issue: a Self-Renewal & Youth Development Reading List generated by Gardner Center staff.

 

New Staff

    

FRANCES MILLER

Policy Analyst


 

 

JEREMY NGUYEN

Project Facilitator


 


 

NIKKI RILEY

Project Facilitator


 

Upcoming Events

SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS CONFERENCE

September 4-6, 2014

 

Panel:

Collaborating with K-12 School Districts to Develop and Investigate a Research-Based Tri-Level College Readiness Indicator System 

 

Fifty years ago this year, John W. Gardner published Self-Renewal, the Individual and the Innovative Society. To commemorate our namesake's milestone achievement in writing about self-renewal as well as his unshaken belief in the power and potential of youth, our staff generated a reading list. Here you'll find fiction and nonfiction titles by writers whose words have contributed to our own continuous learning and self-renewal, and energize us in our work with youth and communities. 


Reflections of a Stanford Shinnyo Fellow
In June, we bade farewell to our inaugural Stanford Shinnyo Fellow, Carlo Pasco. As a parting gift, Carlo left us with a video of the ten most important lessons he learned over the course of his fellowship year. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Reflections from Carlo Pasco, 2014 Stanford Shinnyo Fellow
Reflections from Carlo Pasco, 2014 Stanford Shinnyo Fellow
This extraordinary opportunity is made possible by the Shinnyo-En Foundation, which partnered with the Haas Center for Public Service, the Gardner Center, and Redwood City 2020 to design a year-long, post-undergraduate fellowship that includes aspects of direct community service, leadership, and reflection. 

"Family engagement initiatives offer a tremendous opportunity to bridge a gap between some of the most important entities in a child's world."

 

- Kendra Fehrer, PhD

 

From Data to Action: One Year Later
At the 2013 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Harvard Education Press released From Data to Action: A Community Approach to Improving Youth Outcomes, a book that was collaboratively written by Gardner Center researchers and our community partners. Unique both in its partnership perspective and its honest account of the potential (as well as the tensions) of using integrated longitudinal data analysis to improve community outcomes for youth, From Data to Action has been described as a "timely, compelling, and important book that addresses how school and community leaders can go even further toward understanding the strengths and needs of their students." We are pleased that the book has made its way into graduate education classrooms as a textbook and has been distributed as required reading at community leadership retreats. And, it has given us some good opportunities to blog!