Strengthen self-belief, build motivation, raise achievement.

Academic Youth Development instills the skills, strategies, and learning mindsets to help students succeed–in school and in their lives.

Experience Academic Youth Development

Academic Youth Development (AYD)

When students believe in their ability to learn, and when they are armed with effective problem-solving strategies, they work harder, persist longer, and achieve at higher levels.

Increase positive outcomes by empowering students with effective strategies and mindsets. Watch this short video to see how AYD transforms student perspectives and prepares them to persevere through challenges in academics and in their lives.

AYD connects students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) to challenges in school.

This suite of programs translates the latest research on student mindset, motivation, learning, and persistence into practical classroom strategies and tools that can be enacted every day, in every classroom, to produce a lasting impact on every student.

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      Summer- & School-Start

AYD summer- and school-start programs help students develop the habits of mind and actions associated with success in school and the workplace, and have daily opportunities to apply new learning to challenging problems in mathematics. Programs are available for upper elementary, middle school, and rising Algebra I students.

      School-Year

School-Year AYD works during advisory, homeroom, and after-school programs for students in grades 8-10. It helps them explicitly connect these new skills for learning to their areas of struggle in school and to problem-solving in math and science.

      Educator’s Course

Educator Academic Youth Development is a professional development experience that empowers faculty teams, site and district leaders, counselors, and other staff with knowledge and meaningful and manageable practices that support learning for all students.

Integrating SEL with challenging mathematics

Academic Youth Development connects students’ learning with foundational mathematics content. Students apply new skills to real-world problem-solving in areas of mathematics that are essential to their grade-level achievement. They learn and refine proven strategies for mathematics success, and collaborate with peers to analyze and understand problem situations, develop conjectures, and describe their thinking.

Fact Sheets and Evidence of Success

Supporting Student’s Social, Emotional, and Academic Development

Evidence of Success: Promising Findings and District Snapshots

Academic Youth Development Outcomes

Academic Youth Development Family Checklist

When educators believe in students’ ability to learn, they engage their students in more rigorous tasks and create classrooms where all feel they belong, and all are challenged and supported.

With Academic Youth Development, teachers develop safe, collaborative learning environments that value all learners and push them to believe in their abilities and persist in their efforts.

Authors Whose Expertise You Can Trust

Our math programs are developed in collaboration with the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, whose founder, Uri Treisman, has done pioneering work throughout California.

For the past three decades, the Dana Center has been a leader in ensuring that all students have equitable access to an excellent mathematics and science education and the results that derive from it.

For more information

Please contact:

Carla Sanfilipp
RVP of Educational Partnerships
224.760.8333 | csanfilipp@agilemind.com