by GripTape | Aug 7, 2021 | Research
When youth have opportunities to drive their own learning, exercising learner agency, it leads to dramatic outcomes—the cultivation of mindsets, skills, and behaviors that are essential to success as adults. Read...
by GripTape | May 10, 2021 | Research
Our early research focused on defining the conditions needed to develop young people’s agency and self-direction over their learning. This present report extends our early findings with further lessons and nuance about the lasting outcomes GripTape youth experience...
by GripTape | May 10, 2021 | Research
Since summer 2016, we’ve pushed aggressively to bring the Learning Challenge opportunity to greater numbers of youth each year. As part of these efforts, GripTape set out to support youth in rural communities and to learn how effective our approaches are here. Read...
by GripTape | May 10, 2021 | Research
Readers familiar with GripTape may have seen our previous findings on the transformative nature of the Learning Challenge. Youth gain self-confidence and a new fire for learning. They’re using skills like time-management and goal-setting and active… Read...
by GripTape | Dec 6, 2019 | Research
GripTape partnered with JFF to implement a youth-centered approach to original research. We brought together GripTape’s agentic model with JFF’s research expertise in a pilot of the Youth Researcher Challenge. Read...
by GripTape | Sep 19, 2019 | Research
We exist at the boundaries of what people perceive possible, with the resolute conviction that youth can and should drive their own learning. We walk this talk every day, placing total decision-making into youths’ hands. Read...
