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This is @yagurlsophia + @cassandragiraldo taking over this week. LA natives capturing similar narratives in Durham, NC and Brooklyn, NY. Our images combat negative stereotypes regarding youth and youth of color by capturing beauty to humanize their stories. We believe in changing the narrative. The youth we’ve documented have greatly inspired us with their stories, passions, and positive spirits. Documenting these stories keeps us young at heart and nourishes our commitment for social change. Check out Cassandra's @afterschoolproject for more happenings during the after-school hours. “Janai, 14, checks her phone before meeting up with friends after school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. + Destiny Newton, a junior, takes a moment to look at her phone before heading to the field for the marching band performance in Durham, NC.” #youth #echosight #mashup #changethenarrative #afterschoolproject

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Afterschool Programs Foster Children's Social and Emotional Learning

Judging from the substance and tenor of the policy debate over education in the United States, you might think that everything children need to learn can be assessed and summed up with test scores and grades.

Parents and educators know better. They see the much broader range of children's development and learning as they walk that long path from birth to young adulthood and beyond. They see the ways infants and toddlers interact with other children and with adults -- the ways they react to what happens around them, memorize storybooks, express emotion as they sing songs, mimic their parents' gestures, and repeat words and phrases they hear. They see the ways children react to encouragement as they learn to walk or ride a bike, the ways they engage a friend or charm a grandparent. Later, they discover their children picking up language and information from their friends and other adults, and going on to develop a rich variety of skills and interests.

More than that, they see their children develop personalities and attitudes, sometimes with their parents' guidance in evidence, sometimes not. Along the way, children develop not just knowledge but abilities, traits and attitudes that can last a lifetime -- things like persistence, resilience, inquisitiveness, conscientiousness, empathy, teamwork, the capacity to relate to other children and to adults, and much more.

Almost none of that is captured with letter grades or test scores, but it all feeds into how well children are able to navigate and succeed in the world around them, as students, citizens, employees and, eventually, as parents themselves.

Still, you don't find many courses in resilience, and there's no department of persistence across the hall from the history department at your community's high schools. But somehow, kids develop those traits.

But how does this social and emotional learning happen? And how can we shape that process to make sure it reaches all our children?

Source from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jodi-grant/afterschool-programs-fost_b_8122320.html?utm_hp_ref=education&ir=Education