Program Foundations
SNLP’s six-week summer program
A: What is Summer Institute (SI)?
Type of class Faculty teach
A: What is an elective?
What Site Leaders oversee
A: What is a Summer Institute site?
Dean’s primary classroom role
A: What is teaching assistant/co-facilitator?
This is the time frame of SI (month range)
A: July to August
Three core themes of SI
A: What is leadership, feminism and social justice?
How often Faculty teach each week
A: What is twice a week?
How Site Leaders structured
A: What is working in pairs?
Number of Nashers each Dean mentors
A: What is 10-15?
All staff must attend weekly meetings on this day
A: Friday
Concepts use to analyze their experience?
A: What are power, identity and privilege?
Who Faculty mentor?
A: Who is the Dean?
Who Site Leaders supervise
A: Who are Deans and Faculty?
Name of Dean’s small group
A: Dean Group
This happens at the end of the program
A: What is Final Celebration?
SNLP’s core teaching approach?
A: What is popular education?
Three qualities of Faculty courses
A: What are rigorous, interactive and relevant topics?
Weekly commitment
A: What is 40 hours?
What Deans design and lead
A: Social Justice workshops/Leadership Seminar curriculum
SI takes place in these five locations.
A: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Newark
SNLP serves primary this group of young people
A: High schoolers; young women and gender-expansive youth
Approach including SEL + trauma-informed care
A: Transformative classroom management
Centering youth voice in learning
A: Youth agency
Classroom model SNLP moves away from
A: What is authoritarian?