Alaska ICE News Feb. 2011 Volume 6, Issue 2 Alaska ICE is the Alaska Initiative for Community Engagement, a statewide initiative of the Association of Alaska School Boards (AASB). Community Engagement is the intentional action of groups and individuals working together to create healthy environments that support the growth and education of children and youth.
Kids These Days radio If you haven’t tuned in to Kids These Days radio, or visited the website, you’re missing out.
Helping Kids Succeed Alaskan-Style!
10 Years of Alaska ICE: A Vision Becomes Reality ICE’s annual report highlights progress, partnerships, evaluation results, and lessons learned from a decade of innovative collaborations. View the 2010 Report at: www.alaskaice.org A decade of Alaska ICE actively partnering with schools and collaborating with communities to help kids succeed is producing positive results. What began as a small group of dedicated individuals with a big idea has steadily grown into a broad-based statewide initiative with many partners working to build a strong web of support for Alaska’s young people.
Ten years working proudly with schools and communities from Ketchikan to Barrow... Clear evidence of this positive transformation is steadily mounting: • More positive environments for youth in schools and communities,
Through individual and combined local efforts by adults • Increased levels of adult support for and involvement and youth in support of healthier communities and young with youth, people, school and community climates are improving. Supportive relationships with adults in and out of the • Improved youth outcomes in academic engagement and school setting are associated with achievement gains and, achievement, social and emotional learning, and risk with our ongoing support, numerous organizations across behaviors, especially for Alaska Native students. Alaska are transitioning to a positive, strength-based ap- > Continued on Page 2 proach to youth development.
Alaska ICE Launches New-Look Web Site
The shows are interesting, informative, and entertaining all at the same time! And the website is chock full of webextras related to show topics in the form of links, video, articles, and research.
As Alaska ICE marks a decade of innovative school, community and organizational partnerships improving the climate for Alaska’s kids, we are also ushering in a new online presence. www.AlaskaICE.org remains a link connecting our membership and others with great community and youth engagement news and education information.
Recent show topics explored have included fatherhood, love & family relationships, the value of music, foster care in Alaska, and grandparents.
We have transitioned to a cleaner look resembling the AASB website and reorganized our banner tabs and materials in a way that you will hopefully find to be more appealing and user-friendly. New to the ICE site are buttons along the left sidebar with content tailored to specific audiences: “Youth,” “Parents/Families,” and “Communities;” school climate and community engagement sections, and much more.
www.kidsthesedays.org
www.alaskaice.org
We invite you to come take a look, navigate through different pages and sections and learn more about who we are, the different collaborative projects we’ve participated in, and the positive results and data that we’ve seen.
www.alaskaice.org We are in the process of transferring remaining files and community photos, but are well on our way. If you have trouble locating a file or article, try the “search bar” in the upper left corner of the site, or contact us at aasb@aasb. org. Thank you for your patience in this process. Feel free to drop us a note on your thoughts about the new site (positive or negative) at: aasb@aasb.org.