Our Shared Work
Cross-pollinating what’s working across our coalitions and networks, this work is taking shape as a shared action agenda.
Current Projects
Shaping Aligned Messages and a Collaborative Communications Platform
Shared stories, shared language, and shared data are essential to making the learning ecosystem visible. Alliance partners are moving key messages through their networks and co-creating a platform for youth-centered storytelling and advocacy. The cornerstone of this work is the revitalization of Youth Today, now under the leadership of Knowledge to Power Catalysts. Relaunched as a national news hub for the allied youth fields, it will spotlight innovations, surface system insights, and elevate the voices of both youth and adults leading change. Partnerships with organizations such as Youth Communications, KidsSpirit, and YouthCast Media ensure Youth Today reflects the perspectives and power of young people as essential architects of thriving learning ecosystems.
Building a Powerful Allied Youth Fields Workforce
Youth work professionals are often young adults themselves, exploring first jobs within the programs they were once a part of. Through the Youth Development Program and Pathways Working Group, we are working to strengthen and support them in their work today as well as optimize their career pathways within youth development, education, and human services more broadly.
The working group includes national youth-serving organizations, associations, technical service providers, and content creators exploring what it would take to create a consortium that ensures every near-peer and adult working with young people has the training and support they need to create powerful and supportive environments and experiences. The working group is a joint project with the Partnership for Student Success.
Designing Powerful, Competency-Building Learning Experiences – in Summer!
As momentum grows to replace seat time with competency-based credit, Alliance partners are sharing tools, frameworks, and pathways that define and support powerful learning experiences for youth and young adults whenever and wherever they happen (360 | 365 | Up to Age 25). At the forefront, XQ Institute is sharing its open-source tools to support interest-driven, real-world learning for high school students. In 2025, XQ came together with Alliance Partners Horizons National, National Summer Learning Association, and Knowledge to Power Catalysts – as well as Allegheny Partners for Out of School Time – to develop a summer pilot for testing XQ’s tools in the design and co-creation of summer learning experiences with high school students. This pilot was supported in part by a Remake Learning moonshot grant.
