Category Archive

August 2019

  • Summer Programs: Essential for Student Growth and to Fight Educational Inequality

    Urban Initiatives’ programs focus on supporting youth in underserved communities. We reach entire school communities daily, through our Culture and Climate programs that strive to help schools value play and enrichment activities alongside classroom instruction. Through our Continuum of Programming, we reach students over many years and engage them in sports-based youth development programs from…

    Summer Programs: Essential for Student Growth and to Fight Educational Inequality
  • We Overhauled Our Elementary School Curriculum: Here’s Why and How

    Urban Initiatives utilizes research-backed, evidence-driven curriculum to guide our program sessions. This summer a team of Urban Initiatives staff and Board members worked together to improve our elementary schoolers’ health and education soccer program curriculum. We sat down with Urban Initiatives Program Director, Sara Shanley, who oversaw the project to chat about the updates.

    We Overhauled Our Elementary School Curriculum: Here’s Why and How