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DonateAnnual Dallas City of Learning Report Finds a Rebound in Access and Dosage with the Return to Face-to-Face Programming Dallas City of Learning (DCoL), launched in 2014, represents a collection, or ecosystem, of organizations focused on providing programming to youth during out-of-school time and other non-traditional learning spaces. Through these learning experiences youth have the opportunity to
Big Thought Institute analyzed data from local juvenile services departments to examine the hypothesis that there are opportunities for youth to avoid prolonged detention and benefit from community-based programming in connection with diversion and probation dispositions.
Summer heat and summer learning are both in full swing for Dallas City of Learning and its partners. Children across the city are accessing summer experiences that will carry them into the school year. Recently at West Dallas SOARS Camp, young creators were decorating their own journal covers. As they drew and colored, one young
Creative Solutions is an arts-as-workforce intervention program for adjudicated youth that has garnered support from Amazon.
“We need to give our youth the critical building blocks to go out and create,” says Laura Orange, Manager of Learning Partners. “We show students what community-based resources are at their fingertips.” THE BACKGROUND Learning Partners is a nationally recognized collaboration formed by community leaders as a way to provide high-quality arts and cultural activities
Big Thought presents Truth Versus Perception, a multi-part series that intimately explores and shares experiences of the Fellows in The Fellowship Initiative designed to dispel the negative, perceived notions of young men of color. These are their words. Their experiences. Their truths. Listen and unlearn. Over five years ago, Sean heard about The Fellowship Initiative