WHAT WE DO

Monthly in-person sessions will be held during school day afternoons. Students have the opportunity to share stories (personal & work-related), build community, discuss current events and historical context around social justice, develop skills and engage in peer consultancy. 

SEE members: 

• form youth-adult restorative practices & equity team (RPET)

• design, conduct, & analyze school survey

• conduct root-cause analysis 

• draft an action plan 

• address inequalities

• build community  

The YAP Training Team facilitates powerful workshops on how to build a meaningful youth-adult Restorative Practices & Equity Team (RPET). The beginner series is for schools that are "preparing" and "onboarding" and the advanced series is for schools that are "doing" and "sustaining". Participants receive a toolkit with resources to support the work at each phase. 

A few member schools volunteer to host the group for a school visit. The host school's RPET develops an agenda for the ( tour, classroom observations, interviews, focus groups, etc) that allows for showcasing promising practices and exploring dilemmas. Participants bring ideas back to their own schools and help host schools address challenges and move forward. 

Hosted by SEE, Youth Summit NYC brings together a collective of student activists and adult allies to highlight the effects of disproportionality on students, while providing best practices to address and dismantle disproportionality. Through authentic youth-adult partnerships, we aim to elevate student perspectives and foster inclusive, humanizing, and critical learning environments for all members of our school communities. 

College Now

SEE is an accredited College Now course at Queens College: Education for Social Justice (SEYS 120). At no cost, enrolled SEE students (must be in 11th or 12th grade) are eligible to earn 3 college credits that are transferable to CUNY, SUNY, and private colleges.