Past YPE Projects

2021 Exemplary Project

Anthony & Lake Harriet Partnership

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YPE teams present their projects at the YPE Spring Summit in May. Many teams choose to create a PowerPoint presentation, but teams can summarize their projects however they choose. See the Communicate Findings page for more ideas!

At the end of the school year, all YPE projects are posted on the MPS website so they are available to the public.

You can also download copies of past presentations from Google Drive by following the links below. Note that many YPE teams were unable to complete projects due to Distance Learning the past two school years.

For a categorized list of all YPE projects, click here.

Overall YPE Findings

REA partnered with Gabe Spinks, the 2017 MPS Student Board Representative, to conduct a meta-analysis using each YPE team’s 2018-19 project as a data source. Three interconnected themes that span across schools and topic areas emerged, and help us better understand the student experience within MPS. These themes are described in detail, along with summarized recommendations, in their own memo (linked below):

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
RELATIONSHIPS: student identity, the presence or lack of trust, and a perceived belief gap all impact student-to-staff and student-to-student relationships.
SCHOOL POLICIES: students want to see changes in some school policies as they feel many are enforced inequitably and predictably by student identity.
STUDENT LEARNING: student learning is impacted by a school climate and environment that often lacks diversity, engaging and culturally relevant curricula, and positive student-teacher relationships.

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