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 While reading, "Whose Security is it Anyway? Excerpts from the Toolkit" by Brooks and Kaba, there were a few bullet points that I felt resonated with me more than others.  Passages that felt "close"-  1. "Document and process daily. Create an efficient method to discuss youth participants, areas of concern, and opportunities for growth and learning" (Brooks and Kaba).  2. "Provide youth with a packet of referrals and resources when a consequence-. involving · time out of the space-has been decided" (Brooks and Kaba).  3. "Host weekly community meetings with space for young people to discuss · issues related to the space, accessibility, and resources. Receive this feedback with open hearts and minds~-it is a great sign of investment when young people take time to offer feedback and critiques to help us evaluate our programs and services" (Brooks and Kaba).  4. "Redefine engagement to include space for resting, self-care, and commun...

After reading "All: At Our Best Introduction" ( Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Deepa Sriya Vasudevan, and Jessica Tseming Fei ) and "Why Couldn't That Have Been Me? Reflections on Confronting Adultism in Education Organizing Spaces" (Luk, Schuettge, Catone, + Perez ), the five bullet points that struck out to me was: 1."Authentic youth leadership- young people having power and agency to make decisions affecting their lives and their communities."  (Luk, Schuettge, Catone, + Perez).  I strongly agree with the idea that young people should have an opinion on decisions that affect their lives and their community. After all they are the ones who have to reap either the benefits or consequences of the decision that gets made!  2."Just because adults step back does not mean that they do not have the responsibility to support young people's leadership. Authentic youth leadership is represented not by a space where youth are left to fight for their own liber...

From both of the readings for this week, I don't have any questions nor critiques however, I would just like to emphasize what both readings are pushing us as the readers to do in life. In Henry Jenkins post "Shall we Play Part 1", he emphasizes that play is just as important as working. That schools often put play in a negative light as it "distracts youth from learning" when in fact, play is a very important factor to youth learning. Through play youth take whatever environment that their in and completely change the entire scenery! Through play youth are able to show their creativity and talents. Working in the after school field I try to incorporate more play than work for my students as well as asking the questions and reflecting on the activity to ensure that they are still learning something.  The post also mentioned how often times we take the fun out of play as well when we emphasize the goal to "win" rather to have fun. When I play games with...

When discussing the topic about "care" the first thing that popped into my head brings me back to 2011. I was months away from ending my freshmen year of high school when I find out that my father had passed away. Growing up I didn't have my father too much in my life but when I first started high school and found out that he was starting to get sick I can happily say that within those few months we started to really connect and bond with each other. Those are moments that I will always cherish. I'll never forget that day. I was sitting in my sixth period English class (not really paying attention, it was 20 minutes until the end of the day and I was really excited to get to softball practice). Suddenly the phone rings and my teacher answers the phone. She tells me that my mom is waiting for me in the main office and that I'm going home and immediately I had a gut feeling that something was wrong...and it was. My mom told me the news and the last thing I remember ...