Resource Topic: YDEKC

Data to Practice Protocol for Partnerships

This guide is designed to help schools and community partners debrief data together, and make plans for improvement. It includes both guiding questions, and prompts for discussion.

Skills & Dispositions, Part 2 – Strategies

This report, published by Youth Development Executives of King County (2010-2023) in 2014, illuminates strategies that support the development of student motivation, engagement, and 21st-century skills. Fourteen strategies are featured; some are foundational (high-quality instruction, cultural responsiveness, positive school climate) while others are more specific (e.g. arts integration, community-based mentoring). This is the second in a two-part series. The first part provides an overview of research on student motivation, engagements, and 21st-century skills.

Elements of Equitable Partnerships (Graphic)

This graphic illustrates how Leadership & Coordination, Shared Vision, Implementation, and Mutual Accountability merge into synergy that leads to changes in school climate and environment; practice, policy, & system changes; and ultimately, improved whole child outcomes. For ideas on what practices support these partnerships, check out this Shared Vision & Leadership Checklist; Aligned, Responsive Implementation Checklist; and Shared Accountability Checklist.

What is Youth Development

Youth development, or positive youth development, served as the unifying principle for a diverse coalition of organizations supported by Youth Development Executives of King County (YDEKC) from 2010 to 2023 in King County, WA. This printer-friendly two-pager, published in 2019, defines youth development, and connects it to social and emotional learning.

Building Sustainable School-Community Partnerships and Programs Workshop Slides

“Building Sustainable School-Community Partnerships and Programs” is part of a training curriculum created by Youth Development Executives of King County (2010-2023) for public use, to expand accessibility to the School & Community Partnership Toolkit resources. This PowerPoint slide deck is accompanied by a workshop outline as well as tools from the Toolkit which are available in School’s Out Washington’s online Resource Library. The curriculum was published online in 2023.