As with past seasons, enjoy our Season 4 Recap (and reflection) of St. Paul Youth Services’ (SPYS’) Rewriting the Rules®. The season began by sharing the perspectives of our high school principals, and continued by creating a front row seat for listeners of SPYS’ YouthPowerMN℠ Leadership Institute. With this season, we shine a light on the legacies of creativity, strength and innovation sustaining those of us who belong to Black communities, Indigenous Communities, and Communities of Color.  

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In this conversation, recorded at the end of the summer session, youth reflect on their growth throughout the 16-day program. The young people highlighted the supportive environment provided by SPYS and the transformative impact on their personal lives and collective development as youth building power.  

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In this episode, we take you to a celebration of the YouthPowerMN℠ Leadership Institute, where youth leaders shared poetry rooted in identity, family and home.  SPYS’ YouthPowerMN℠ leaders created poems in response to curriculum focused on Healing & Identity, Exploration & Innovation, & Policy Change.

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In this episode of St. Paul Youth Services’ (SPYS’) Rewriting the Rules®, youth leaders from YouthPowerMN℠ Leadership Institute are recognized during an award ceremony. The ceremony took place at an overnight retreat at Mt. Olivet Retreat Center in Farmington, MN

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This episode of St. Paul Youth Services’ (SPYS’) Rewriting the Rules®, takes you to the YouthPowerMN℠ hub, where youth leaders co-developed a Code of Conduct, learned about themselves and their community, and engaged in creative and critical thinking.

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In this episode, we hear from YouthPowerMN℠ Leadership Institute leaders in a pre-assessment discussion recorded at the beginning of the summer session. The youth reflect on their favorite parts of working with SPYS, what they’re looking forward to, and advice they’d offer their future self.

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In this episode of Rewriting the Rules®, we're continuing creating a community that wraps its arms around our youth. Our guest for this 2-part episode is Principal Jamil Payton, Principal of Johnson Senior High School.

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We're continuing our focus on being the adult we wished we had as a child and teen from the perspectives of our high school principals. This episode features friend of St Paul Youth Services, Dr Diana Brown, Principal of Como Park High School.  

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In episode 9 of Season 3, St. Paul Youth Services’ Rewriting the Rules® team reflects on eight episodes that focused on youth voice in a variety of ways.

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In episode 8 of Season 3, Youth Host Connor Walford returns to Rewriting the Rules® to conduct “man on the street” interviews with guests of St. Paul Youth Services’ (SPYS)’ Annual LIT Party. 

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In this episode of Rewriting the Rules®, we take listeners to a YouthPowerMN℠ Leadership Institute celebration following SPYS’ business partnership event with Allina Health called There’s a Career for You in Healthcare.

 

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For this podcast conversation, our host Dr. Tracine Asberry chats with youth author Miles Asberry-Wallace and his best friend Connor Walford about games as a tool for learning.

 

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In Season 3, Episode 5 of Rewriting the Rules®, host Dr. Tracine Asberry, Executive Director of Saint Paul Youth Services (SPYS), speaks with two youth at SPYS for our first ever Pre-Charge Diversion Symposium. 

 

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In Part 3 of our “LIVE” Event Recording! Series, guests who joined us to hear from youth author & illustrator Miles Asberry-Wallace asked him questions about his creative journey. In this episode, you’ll hear insights from Miles about his process and plans for the future.  

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In Part 2 of our “LIVE” Event Recording! Series, Youth Host Connor Walford conducts “man on the street” interviews with guests joining us to hear from Youth Author & Illustrator Miles Asberry-Wallace and share their favorite books, authors, and reasons why reading is important to critically and creatively make sense of and navigate our world, our lives and specific circumstances that come our way.  

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For our second episode of Rewriting the Rules® Season 3, we’re launching a three-episode series resulting from SPYS’ Podcast “LIVE” Event Recording held on Wednesday, February 7th.

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Welcome Back for Season 3 of SPYS' Rewriting the Rules® Podcast! For Season 3 and  Episode 1, we are talking about L.O.V.E.

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In Season 3, Rewriting the Rules® continues to shine a light on community and business leaders, youth champions, and other radicals whose work builds on the power and genius fundamental to Black Communities, Indigenous Communities, and Communities of Color throughout our existence. 

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This season, we explored the legacies of strength, creativity, and innovation in Black communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color.

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For our seventh episode of Rewriting the Rules® Season 2, we’re shining a light on Georgina Lorencz, whose work builds on power and genius fundamental to Black communities.

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