What does it take to get young people ready for life?
It's not often that you get to listen in as three high-level thinkers in the youth field gather around a table to tackle such a question. Hundreds listened in as John Gomperts, president and CEO of America's Promise Alliance; Karen Pittman, CEO and co-founder of the Forum for Youth Investment; and Sean Slade, director of Whole Child Programs at ASCD, sat down together at the Forum's Washington, D.C., headquarters to ponder that question and its spinoffs: How do we define readiness? Who's responsible for instilling it? How do we measure it?
It's not often that you get to listen in as three high-level thinkers in the youth field gather around a table to tackle such a question. Hundreds listened in as John Gomperts, president and CEO of America's Promise Alliance; Karen Pittman, CEO and co-founder of the Forum for Youth Investment; and Sean Slade, director of Whole Child Programs at ASCD, sat down together at the Forum's Washington, D.C., headquarters to ponder that question and its spinoffs: How do we define readiness? Who's responsible for instilling it? How do we measure it?