GripTape is changing all of that. We operate with the resolute conviction that young people can and should drive their own learning. We walk this talk every day, placing decision-making authority into the hands of youth and designing alongside them to expand opportunities for young people to pursue their passions and chart their paths to success. What we see is surprising and powerful.
We use rapid, iterative cycles to develop, test, and refine our supports in service of learning and advancing the domain of learner agency. We aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the skills, competencies, mindsets, and outcomes that develop when youth are given full control to drive their own learning. Our strong desire is that these efforts spur greater commitment to youth-led learning across all contexts in which young people participate, and we invite you to read our resources for a more in-depth look at our work.
Research
2022 Longitudinal Report
Our 2022 Longitudinal Report dives into the lasting difference taking on a Learning Challenge makes for youth. Through survey data and Challengers’ own words, readers will understand that completing a GripTape Learning Challenge shifts the way young people see...
Learner Agency Framework
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. This is key to a self-reinforcing cycle of learning and...
Outcomes Learning Report
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...
Rural CO Learning Report
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.
Annual Learning Report
What does it take to inspire youth to be active drivers of their own learning? This question is at the core of GripTape's approach, and after hearing from young people months after their Learning Challenge, we've begun to pose other questions as well.
Youth Researcher Challenge Learning Report
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.
Learning Cycle 1 Summary of Findings
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.
Learning Cycle 2 Summary of Findings
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 authority into the hands of young people and designing alongside...
Learning Cycle 3 Summary of Findings
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 authority into the hands of young people and designing alongside...