North Philly Youth Set Sail

The U School

The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory teaches urban youth about boat building, but it also engages them in practices that teach them communication skills, empathy, teamwork, and how to develop individual agency.

Produced by Anthony Rivera, Chaunce Hem, Tyteana Gutzmore, Jhena Fuller-Baylock, and Alana Craig at the U School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Instruction provided by SRL Connected Educator Josh Kleiman. Station support is provided by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Elis Estrada of PBS NewsHour, and WHYY.

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Student Reporting Labs connect students with an innovative video journalism curriculum and a network of public broadcasting mentors to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports from a youth perspective.

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American Graduate: Getting to Work, public media’s long-term commitment to supporting community-based solutions in education. Supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, more than 128 public radio and television stations have joined forces with more than 1,700 partners and at-risk schools across 48 states and one territory.

Major support is also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Kauffman Foundation, the Lumina Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

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