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Alaska ICE Newsletters 8-10-2010  Each month, Alaska ICE publishes a monthly newsletter filled with stories and information about what's happening around Alaska to support young people. These two-page publications are a great way to reach Alaskans, and we are glad to offer them for downloading below. Each month we will put the newest newsletter up on this page, so stay tuned for more from the "news desk" of Alaska ICE. Note: ICE newsletters are in Adobe pdf format, click here to download the free reader from Adobe's website. For more information about the Alaska ICE newsletter, or to suggest a story idea, contact Ryan Aguilar at raguilar@aasb.org or (907) 586-1083.
This issue describes ICE's support of youth-led service projects and gives examples of 2010 summer efforts. A former QS2 district uses social/emotional and language skills for a community project, and we pose the question: Why is your community great for youth and how can you contribute to growing and sustaining that environment? Read about how youth and adults across Alaska are contributing to their communities, and how everyone has a role to play in supporting youth. Learn about a few of the 2010 Winter Service Projects that have taken place and read about Kids These Days! making its comeback to radio. The May issue discusses the bolstering effects of the QS2 initiative on multiple communities throughout Alaska. Youth-adult-community projects from Southwest Region, Kenai Peninsula, Chugach, and Cordova School Districts are highlighted. Also read about a successful youth and elder celebration that took place in Dillingham. In this installment, learn more about AASB's Youth Advocacy Institute and how it helps empower Alaska students. You can also read about Spirit of Youth, an organization that truly is youth-driven.
This issue highlights Alaska ICE's efforts to engage communities in positive youth-adult partnerships. ICE will offer $500 awards for community service projects that team youth and adults. Also, find out about 10 Kuskokwim villages benefitting from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. There is also a short blurb on the advantages for students attending the Youth Advocacy Institute coming in Feb.
Read about youth leaders at AASB's 2009 Annual Conference, and learn about the value of AASB's Leadership Institute. Also, find out about the six-month Youth Development Academy in Anchorage that focuses on training participants on how to work with youth. The October issue discusses the ICE evaluation and its positive impacts on community change and youth outcomes - in the form of more nurturing environments and academic achievement. It also highlights a unique community project in Seward that originated with its youth.
In this month's issue, read about Woodland Park teens taking the initiative to reach out to homeless youth and learn about three new AASB team members. You can also find a story on the Alaska Teen Media Institute creating an online tool to share more youth voices around AK, and how community engagement affected the school and entire community of Tyonek for the better. This issue focuses on community service projects that engage youth and adults - where the youth serve as leaders - to build healthier communities around Alaska. Communities highlighted include: Chugiak, Brevig Mission, Soldotna, Gakona, Tyonek, and more.
Read about the Digital Storytelling program available to the 4th and 5th graders of Glacier Valley Elementary. Also learn about a few of the youth-led summer projects taking place in communities across Alaska. There is also a story about arts organizations partnering with AASB, creating various community arts projects connecting youth and adults. In this newsletter learn about the innovative wind project at Cordova Junior/Senior High School through an interview with science teacher Adam Low. Also find out how youth-adult partnerships are strengthening communities around Alaska. And finally, take a glimpse at the evaluation of the Alaska ICE initiative prepared by the American Institutes for Research. Learn about Tyonek's Family Nights, how adults and youth share Native culture, and learn in new and creative ways. Read about Petersburg's Peggy Floro and how she is helping the community to put youth first. Also learn how SEL is creating caring classrooms.
In this issue, find out how a Heritage Calendar project led by the Alaska Native Lutheran Church youth group is helping to build pride and appreciation in the community. Also learn about the positive impacts of the AASB School Climate and Connnectedness Survey.
Read about how school climate and connectedness can help to improve your school. See what Spirit of Youth is doing to recognize teens and find out how you can nominate youth in your community. Also learn about an indoor drive-in event in Unalaska that's building assets in their youth. Learn how the Pribilof School District, through Social Emotional Learning, is preparing children to become knowledgeable, responsible, and caring. Read about school advisory councils in the North Slope helping students to be successful by increasing communications between communities and schools. Read about the Yukon Flats Spring Arts Program that took Vicki Salmon to eight of the 11 villages in the district, sharing music and art workshops with students, adults, and elders. Learn how the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council is nurturing youth leaders, and finally how physical activity can improve learning.
In this issue, find out how emotional intelligence and social emotional learning are pathways to student success, both academically and socially. Learn how the community of Nanwalek, Alaska supports their young people, and how everyone can make a difference in the lives of children and youth. Learn about the Bering Strait School District's community-wide commitment to helping kids grow and achieve academically and socially. Alaska ICE CEEs Bridget Smith and Kate Dugan visited 14 different communities in BSSD in five weeks, reenergizing community members to support their youth . Also read about how physical activity and PLAY provide benefits for cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and moral development. Read about the collaboration of schools and communities in the Southeast Island School District and find examples of community art projects. Also, learn how art is bringing kids and the community together in Anderson, Alaska. And the 2008 TOPS for Artists workshop is right around the bend, connecting youth with adults and creating effective partnerships to benefit students and communities.
In this issue, find out about a professional development course for teachers in the Pribilof School District aimed at building stronger teaching and learning communities. Learn how the LKSD is engaging its families and communities through parent education workshops and how the Alaska Teen Media Institute gives teens a statewide voice.
Learn about the power that school and community connectedness holds for youth in relation to education, life learning, and the reduction of risk behaviors. Read about Steven Holley, a teen engaged in the the Young Adult Advisory Members (YAAMs) committee of the Tyonek Native Corporation. Also, read about the growth of AASB's annual Youth Leadership Institute.
In this issue, read about the Dillingham Dumpster project, one of several projects that the youth and adults of the Dillingham community are involved in. Also learn about the Summer Institute, put together by the teens of ATMI, Alaska Youth for Environmental Action, and the World Wildlife Fund. Also learn how the Nenana Student Learning Center is focusing on student achievement. Read about the Youth and Elder Retreat that's part of the annual Beyond Heritage festival in Juneau. Beyond Heritage celebrates traditional and contemporary Alaska Native dance, storytelling, oratory, poetry, film, music, and theatre. Learn how the Basic Arts Institute inspires teachers from across Alaska to integrate art into their school's curriculum. Also, read about the Raising Student Voices and Participation (RSVP) project that seeks to empower students to become engaged in school improvement efforts.
Learn about Dr. Robert Blum's take on school connectedness and its influence on academic achievement. Also learn how AASB/Alaska ICE is taking steps to measure school connectedness and school climate at Alaska's schools. Also read about Port Alexander and their efforts to recognize their youth.
In this issue, learn how youth in Sitka are becoming leaders for adults in advancing the community. Also, read about the Rural Alaska Honors Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that offers one of the nation's most successful college preparatory programs for Native Americans.
Read about how the new Strong Man comic book merges the past with the present, an adult in Stevens Village, AK connects with youth, and a Seward program called Creating Opportunities for Youth raises student achievement motivation and encourages strong youth-adult connections.
This issue focuses on the interconnectedness of academic and social-emotional learning. Learn about youth as emeging leaders at the Youth Leadership Institute held every year at the AASB annual conference. Also, read about "active" or "project-based" learning happening in the Denali Borough School DIstrict.
Learn how extracurricular activities benefit students socially, academically, and interpersonally. Find out about Unalaska's Camp Qungaayux and its mission to teach children various life skills with a focus on cultural values and traditional ways. Also, Read about the advantage of parent involvement in schooling and the steps that the Dept. of Early Education are taking toward ensuring school readiness/early learning success in Alaska. Also, learn about the 2006 Basic Arts Institute and its mission to make art matter in classrooms across the state.
This issue focuses on the idea that children and youth can have fun this summer while continuing to learn and grow. Volunteer opportunities in your community, various education- and activity- centric websites, and positive organizations and programs reinforce this idea and make it accessible. Different community projects from all across Alaska are also highlighted in this edition.
Read about the dynamic 'Art is Elementary' program happening at Glacier Valley School in Juneau and how its engaging children to learn through the arts. You can also learn about the Special Olympics Alaska School program and their efforts over the past year. And check out a new book, Helping Kids Succeed ~ Anchorage School District Style.
In this issue, read about ways to empower children and youth, to appreciate and acknowledge their unique qualities. Also learn about the 8th annual Spirit of Youth awards banquet that recognizes inspired youth from across Alaska.
This issue talks about the inspiring youth that took part in the Conference of Young Alaskans, their ideas, plans, and dreams for Alaska's future. The COYA was covered by the Alaska Teen Media Institute (ATMI). Passing Native culture down through the generations through storytelling is another topic that is addressed.
Read how adults' simple, intentional actions can positively influence youth in academics and in life. You can also read about service learning and a project created by a 9 year-old, 4th grader called Children to Children Alaska.
This edition documents the creativity and spirit of Ketchikan High School and the important role community service plays in the lives of students at the Galena Interior Learning Academy.
Read about connections made with residential high school students through the Resiliency in Residence Life project and meet Community Hero, Karen Eakes, the executive director of PATCHWorks, Ketchikan's Planned Approach To Community Health initiative. This issue talks about connecting curriculum to culture through Place-based education and introduces the monthly newspaper insert Kids These Days.
This issue contains stories on the 4 QS2 graduating districts for 2005 and the amazing community engagement efforts they put forth and also focuses on 3 of our 7 statewide partners and how they help support Alaska ICE's mission to advocate for youth. Read stories in this issue about how Spirit of Youth (SOY) launched a campaign to recognize youth-friendly businesses in Alaska and the Kids These Days! radio program deals with issues related to life after high school.
This issue includes a story about the recent Spirit of Youth awards banquet, along with information about out upcoming TOPS for artists and a welcome to two new members of the Alaska ICE team.
Read stories in this issue about how Perseverance Theatre in Juneau led youth workshops connected to their touring production of the Tlingit Macbeth, along with a story from Eagle and information about the Advocates for Alaska's Youth Network. This issue contains a long and detailed story about the great things happening for kids in the Kodiak Island Borough School District, a long-time partner with Alaska ICE, as well as a story from Fairbanks about National Mentoring Month.
The debut issue! Read about Kids These Days!, our monthly radio call-in show and, among other items, read a story from a student in Ketchikan about how the students at Kayhi are improve the climate at their school. Associated Files If you have trouble viewing a file, make sure you have the correct file viewer. If you have trouble downloading a file try right clicking on the link and selecting "Save Target As.."  View this page as an Adobe PDF file - DownloadFile Viewers If you have trouble viewing any of our files, please make sure you've downloaded all the necessary media players and file viewers. Adobe Acrobat Reader - View PDF documents with the free Acrobat Reader. |
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